Mum loses custody of her son as sperm donor named 'legal parent'

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A mum has been left heartbroken after losing custody of her son to a sperm donor who was named the child's 'legal parent'. A judge ruled that Kris Williams should have adopted the child that she had with her wife after the sperm donor they used obtained custody.A court heard that the case involved Kris Williams and Rebekah Wilson, an Oklahoma same-sex married couple, who were raising a boy conceived using Harlan Vaughn as a sperm donor.

Wilson entered into a sperm donor agreement with Vaughn in September 2018, but Williams was not included or referenced in the agreement.The Mirror reports that following several at-home inseminations in December 2018, Wilson fell pregnant.

But after two years of raising the boy, their marriage fell apart, and Wilson obtained a Victim Protective Order against Williams in November 2021.She and the boy then moved in with Vaughn, who filed a Petition for Adjudication of Paternity and Establishment of Custody and Visitation on January 18, 2022.

Earlier this week, Judge Lynne McGuire ruled that Williams was not the mother of the child and that the sperm donor, Harlan Vaughn, was the legal parent.Williams told KFOR that she was "in shock" by the judge’s ruling .She said "I can tell you that that brings a lot of anger and emotion on me." Whilst weeping, she added: "Why?