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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 25, 1992                   TAG: 9202250102
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: ALEXANDRIA                                LENGTH: Short

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COLLEAGUE BACKS CLAIMS BY DOCTOR

Five patients of a doctor accused of fraud were pregnant when he said they were, contrary to prosecutors' contentions, another doctor testified Monday.

However, the women may well have been less far along in their pregnancies than Dr. Cecil Jacobson said, testified Dr. Stuart Campbell, a sonogram expert from London. Campbell examined about 180 pictures from ultrasound examinations conducted by Jacobson.

Campbell testified as the trial for Jacobson, a former Fairfax County fertility specialist accused of fathering as many as 75 of his patients' children, began its third week in U.S. District Court.

Jacobson is charged with 52 counts of fraud and perjury alleging he used his own sperm to inseminate patients without their knowledge and used hormone injections to convince some women they were pregnant when they weren't.

Prosecutors allege several women who believed they were pregnant were later told by Jacobson they had miscarried and the fetuses had been reabsorbed into their bodies when in fact they were never pregnant.

- Associated Press

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