Jacksonville\u2019s First Coast News.<\/a><\/p>\nJoshua, who had a vasectomy earlier in his life, needed to undergo an invasive surgical sperm retrieval and produced four vials of sperm.<\/p>\n
The couple paid Brown Fertility, named one of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Best Fertility Clinics\u201d in 2025, \u201ctens of thousands of dollars\u201d for the services.<\/p>\n
Joshua, who had a vasectomy earlier in his life, needed to undergo an invasive surgical sperm retrieval and produced four vials of sperm for the clinic. First Coast News<\/p>\n
The couple are suing Brown Fertility in Jacksonville, Fla., for using the wrong sperm to create the embryo.<\/p>\n
The vials were given to Brown Fertility under the specific terms that the clinic would create embryos by fertilizing Natalie\u2019s oocytes, which would later be transferred to her.<\/p>\n
Natalie gave birth to a baby girl in June 2025, but the couple noticed something wrong almost immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin the first day of life, routine newborn blood typing produced a result that did not fit,\u201d the suit alleged. \u201cThe Strongs\u2019 daughter typed Blood Type B Positive. That result is biologically impossible given Natalie\u2019s blood type, O Negative, and Joshua\u2019s blood type, A Negative.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Additional DNA testing later revealed there was a 0% probability Joshua was the newborn\u2019s father<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took away the euphoria of having a baby,\u201d Natalie told the outlet. \u201cIt was my first child, I was in heaven. It was the best day of my life and then when that hit us, it took all the happiness away, which we should have had for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple has told the clinic of the test results but have not gotten answers.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite irrefutable DNA evidence, Brown Fertility and Dr. Brown have refused to admit what they did, refused to account for Joshua\u2019s missing sperm, and refused to take responsibility,\u201d the suit says.<\/p>\n
It was the second time the couple had gone through the IVF process with the clinic, as Natalie had had a miscarriage one month into their first try in mid-2024.<\/p>\n
Natalie Strong revealed she had a miscarriage during the couple\u2019s first attempt to have a baby back in 2024. First Coast News<\/p>\n
The couple claims Brown Fertility had used the wrong sperm for the first pregnancy too, and the location of Joshua\u2019s sperm was revealed.<\/p>\n
The couple alleged the clinic has not revealed where Joshua\u2019s sperm has gone, whether it was misplaced, discarded or used to create another couple\u2019s embryo without their knowledge.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Strongs do not know whether Joshua has biological children, fathered without his knowledge, being raised today by other Brown Fertility patients who have no idea,\u201d the suit says<\/p>\n
The Strongs are seeking damages in excess of $50,000 and a trial by jury in the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cNatalie suffers the daily knowledge that her body was used, twice, to carry a stranger\u2019s child,\u201d the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoshua suffers the daily knowledge that the daughter he is raising bears no biological connection to him, the loss of the irreplaceable genetic future he believed he was building with his wife, and the unending question of what became of his cryopreserved sperm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida couple has accused a fertility clinic of using another man\u2019s sperm to create their daughter\u2019s embryo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[65288,25786,79333,28,30,29,62687,4137,4278],"class_list":["post-404496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-childbirth","tag-dna","tag-fertility","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-ivf","tag-lawsuits","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}