Woman who accidentally slept with her half-brother described moment her mother confessed all

Victoria Hill’s life changed forever in 2019 when she decided to take a DNA test to learn more about her family background. She’d had a health scare and wanted to check if she might have inherited any genetic conditions. Even though she had always felt a little different from the rest of her family and noticed she didn’t really look like her dad, Roy, she never seriously questioned whether he was her biological father.

When her DNA results came back, she was shocked. The test showed that she had a surprising number of half-siblings—25 at the last count. At first, she didn’t believe it. She thought the results were wrong and that maybe these people were just distant relatives, mislabeled as siblings.

But then she started getting messages from someone named Sarah. One message said, “Hi, I know what you’re seeing might be alarming.” Another message from Sarah asked if Victoria’s parents had gone to Yale for fertility treatment. Victoria was stunned—how could this stranger know such personal details?

Until then, Victoria believed what her parents had told her: they had trouble having a second child and used a fertility clinic where her dad’s sperm was used. She hadn’t questioned it. But when she asked her mom about the fertility doctor’s name, her mother panicked and went pale. That’s when her mother finally confessed—they hadn’t used Roy’s sperm. Instead, they used a donor, someone the clinic had picked, and they had agreed to keep it a secret forever.

But even her mother didn’t know the full truth. The donor wasn’t some anonymous medical student as they had believed. The fertility doctor himself, Dr. Burton Caldwell, had used his own sperm without telling the patients. That meant he was actually Victoria’s biological father.

To make matters worse, Victoria found out that one of her ex-boyfriends was actually her half-brother. They had unknowingly committed incest. When she told her mother about Dr. Caldwell being her real father, her mom was horrified. She had trusted him for years and couldn’t believe he would do something so unethical and disturbing.

Victoria was heartbroken. Her dad, Roy, had always known he wasn’t her biological father but had loved her unconditionally. Still, he was furious when he learned what Dr. Caldwell had done. Her mom struggled deeply with the news, too.

Now, Victoria’s mother is part of a lawsuit against Dr. Caldwell, along with other women who discovered the same horrifying truth. Dr. Caldwell died in February at the age of 86, but the damage he caused is still unfolding. He’s been accused of serious wrongdoing, including using his own sperm without consent, lying to patients, and causing deep emotional pain.

The court has even asked Yale to hand over documents from the time Caldwell worked with them, though the university claims it had nothing to do with his actions.