Where Is Donald Cline Now? The Doctor From Netflix’s ‘Our Father’ Doc Still Lives Free – Decider
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Once upon a time, Dr. Donald Cline—who is exposed in the new Netflix documentary, Our Father, which began streaming today—was considered to be one of the best fertility doctors in Indianapolis. Perhaps that wasn’t saying much, considering that fertility doctors were still a fairly new phenomenon when Cline opened his specialty practice in 1979. Still, for three decades, Cline helped hundreds of parents who had problems conceiving get pregnant. Most were so grateful to have a child, they didn’t think to question it.
Then DNA testing came on to the scene, and sites like 23andMe and Ancestry-dot-com revealed the unthinkable: Cline had been—without his patients’ knowledge and certainly without their consent—inseminating his patients with his own sperm. He has fathered over 90 children, with more and more half-siblings popping up on DNA testing sites every month.
One of Cline’s children, Jacoba Ballard, was the first to uncover the story, and now she and her many half-siblings want to get their story out there to as many people as possible—especially because it might be the only form of justice they may get. Though he’s played by an actor, Keith Boyle, in the movie, he refused to participate in the film. So where is Dr. Don Cline now? Read on to find out.
Dr. Donald Cline is still living as a free man in Indianapolis, Indiana according to a 2019 report from The Atlantic. He lives within just a few blocks of some of the children he fathered without their mother’s consent. One of his former patients interviewed for the Atlantic story, Liz White, told the magazine the former doctor “lives down the street over there. I live down the street over there, and my mom lives in town here.”
Despite the fact that what Cline did was undeniably a sexual violation, a somewhat crass and unsympathetic lawyer explains in the documentary that it was not legally—according to Indiana state law—rape. Because of that, in 2017, Cline was charged only with obstruction of justice, for lying to the attorney general’s office about using his sperm on patients. (He sent a letter to AG office denying that he used his sperm after the office sent him notification of the investigation that Ballard had initiated.) Cline, a prominent member of his church, had several church elders testify on his behalf at his court date, and, Ballard says in the film, the judge seemed unusually sympathetic toward him.
As a result of his crimes, Cline lost his medical license (after he had already retired, in 2009), paid a measly $500 fine, and served a single year of probation. And that was it.
In a written director’s statement for the Our Father press notes, director Lucie Jourdan said that “Cline did everything in his power to silence [the siblings] and the making of this film.” He reportedly told Jourdan, “The world doesn’t need to know.”
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May 14, 2022 at 03:50PM