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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 8, 1993                   TAG: 9309080356
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

INFERTILITY DOCTOR'S CONVICTIONS UPHELD

An infertility doctor who inseminated women with his own sperm deserved a prison term exceeding guidelines, an appeals court said Tuesday.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris, who said Cecil B. Jacobson caused his patients "extreme psychological injury."

Jacobson, who operated a fertility clinic in Vienna from 1976 to 1988, was sentenced to five years in prison - 19 months more than sentencing guidelines recommend - after he was convicted on 52 fraud and perjury counts.

Prosecutors said Jacobson may have fathered as many as 75 children, telling patients the sperm was from anonymous donors.

- Associated Press

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