A woman was awarded $5.25million after a jury found a doctor guilty of inseminating her with his own sperm instead of an anonymous donor. Cheryl Rousseau, 73, of Florida, will receive $5million in punitive damages and $250,000 in compensatory damages after the jury ruled Wednesday that Dr. John Coates III, 80, had impregnated her with his sperm in 1977 without her consent at Central Vermont Hospital in . Her husband, Peter, had an irreversible vasectomy and the pair wanted a child together after both having previous children from other marriages.
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