<p>In a bizarre case, a man in the US is suing a fertility clinic and an ex-girlfriend for stealing his sperm and then conceiving a child without his permission.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Layne Hardin from Louisiana is suing the fertility clinic and his ex-girlfriend Toby Devall after the sperm bank handed over two vials of his sperm in a "paper lunch sack" to her and then conceived a child without his permission, his lawyer Cade Bernsen said.<br /><br />Lawyer Bernsen accuses Devall of having "bluffed her way into getting the sperm" and created a baby without ex-boyfriend Hardin's consent "purposefully out of vindictiveness and to punish him for breaking up with her."<br /><br />Hardin also alleges that the sperm bank and an affiliated fertility clinic had an "utter lack of safeguards and protections," according to his lawyer.<br /><br />Now Hardin could be asked to pay child support for the 2-year-old boy, despite never authorising the use of his sperm or having met the child, the ABC News reported.<br /><br />In 2002, Hardin, 44, and then girlfriend, Katherine LeBlanc agreed to freeze Hardin's sperm after having a son, who is now 12, and Hardin decided to undergo a vasectomy, according to court papers.<br /><br />Bernsen, who represented both Hardin and LeBlanc, said the couple signed a contract with a sperm bank giving any future access to the sperm solely to LeBlanc if she decided to conceive another child. They paid annually to keep the sperm cryogenically frozen.<br /><br />The couple subsequently broke up, and Hardin began dating Devall. Hardin and Devall had a "volatile, on-and-off again relationship" that ended two years ago, Bernsen said.<br />Hardin and LeBlanc allege that Devall in 2011 walked into the Texas Andrology Services sperm bank, asked for and was given Hardin's sperm, no questions asked, Bernsen said.<br />She then went next door to an affiliated fertility clinic and was inseminated, the lawyer said.<br /><br />"They had a written contract that specified only two people that could access this sperm, yet the sperm bank let someone walk in off the street and take two vials of sperm in a paper lunch sack...They never checked. That's what's frightening," Bernsen said.<br />Devall had a son, now 2, with the sperm. But Hardin has never met the boy, his lawyer said.<br /><br />"This case involves the life of one innocent child. Soon, 12 men and women will see all of the evidence and make a decision based upon the true facts of the case," Devall's lawyer John Lee Hoffoss said.</p>
<p>In a bizarre case, a man in the US is suing a fertility clinic and an ex-girlfriend for stealing his sperm and then conceiving a child without his permission.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Layne Hardin from Louisiana is suing the fertility clinic and his ex-girlfriend Toby Devall after the sperm bank handed over two vials of his sperm in a "paper lunch sack" to her and then conceived a child without his permission, his lawyer Cade Bernsen said.<br /><br />Lawyer Bernsen accuses Devall of having "bluffed her way into getting the sperm" and created a baby without ex-boyfriend Hardin's consent "purposefully out of vindictiveness and to punish him for breaking up with her."<br /><br />Hardin also alleges that the sperm bank and an affiliated fertility clinic had an "utter lack of safeguards and protections," according to his lawyer.<br /><br />Now Hardin could be asked to pay child support for the 2-year-old boy, despite never authorising the use of his sperm or having met the child, the ABC News reported.<br /><br />In 2002, Hardin, 44, and then girlfriend, Katherine LeBlanc agreed to freeze Hardin's sperm after having a son, who is now 12, and Hardin decided to undergo a vasectomy, according to court papers.<br /><br />Bernsen, who represented both Hardin and LeBlanc, said the couple signed a contract with a sperm bank giving any future access to the sperm solely to LeBlanc if she decided to conceive another child. They paid annually to keep the sperm cryogenically frozen.<br /><br />The couple subsequently broke up, and Hardin began dating Devall. Hardin and Devall had a "volatile, on-and-off again relationship" that ended two years ago, Bernsen said.<br />Hardin and LeBlanc allege that Devall in 2011 walked into the Texas Andrology Services sperm bank, asked for and was given Hardin's sperm, no questions asked, Bernsen said.<br />She then went next door to an affiliated fertility clinic and was inseminated, the lawyer said.<br /><br />"They had a written contract that specified only two people that could access this sperm, yet the sperm bank let someone walk in off the street and take two vials of sperm in a paper lunch sack...They never checked. That's what's frightening," Bernsen said.<br />Devall had a son, now 2, with the sperm. But Hardin has never met the boy, his lawyer said.<br /><br />"This case involves the life of one innocent child. Soon, 12 men and women will see all of the evidence and make a decision based upon the true facts of the case," Devall's lawyer John Lee Hoffoss said.</p>