Sperm donor with 550 children is taken to court for ‘using his YouTube channel to encourage his hundreds of offspring to have large families’ – and gives a VERY bizarre response

A prolific sperm donor who has fathered 550 children worldwide is being taken to court in a final attempt to stop him from reaching his offspring.

Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a 43-year-old YouTuber from the Netherlands, is facing legal action from one of the mothers of his donor children, who accuses him of not ‘staying away’ according to an alleged agreement.

The donor children’s organization Stichting Donorkind also reportedly wants him to stop attempts to contact his descendants.

‘Jonathan presents himself as a kind of uncle, but actually acts as a parent from a distance. He is trying to play a role in our family,” Natalie Dijkdrenth, who initiated the case, told de Volkskrant.

The mother says Meijer, a former high school teacher, tries to influence her son and other children by “advising them to find a partner who looks like them and thinks like them.”

“He rejects certain parenting styles and promotes large families,” she said.

Meijer hit back yesterday in a new video on his YouTube account, following him as he silently walked through the woods, captioned with the caption “Attack on my FREEDOM OF SPEECH.”

Meijer faced a lawsuit in 2023 asking for legal action due to fears of unintentional incest and inbreeding between his children, and because he had far exceeded the Dutch limit of fathering 25 donor children.

The donor was found in court in 2017 to have fathered at least 102 children ruled in 2023 that he must stop making donations, otherwise he risks a fine of 100,000 euros per violation.

Clinics at the time were also ordered to destroy the samples they had. Regardless, Meijer continued to donate abroad, including to a Danish sperm bank that is active all over the world.

Jonathan is a 43-year-old former high school teacher and YouTuber

Meijer’s video shared yesterday was filmed in silence, with accompanying text against the Donorkind Foundation ‘and Nathalie from the Netflix series (sic)’ who, according to him, ‘wants me to be silent’.

“So let’s see what a vlog will look like without me telling you what my opinion is.”

He asked for financial help with legal costs before freezing the camera and continuing his walk for nine minutes, stopping only to freeze the camera again.

The video ended with a message asking for support on his channel.

Dijkdrenth said the parents are concerned that “some children are extremely open to influence because of their age,” and that as a donor he “has a certain appeal to them.”

Meijer has a public persona on YouTube, has appeared on Loose Women, dubbed “the man with 1,000 children,” and is the focus of a Netflix documentary that he says has influenced his relationship with his children.

Last year, he posted a video on his own YouTube channel titled “IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL MY DONORK CHILDREN,” in which he lamented how, in light of the lawsuit, his relationship with some of his fathered children “has changed from one to the next.” another day’ had changed and soured. .

The sperm donor was previously the subject of a Netflix series, ‘The Man With 1000 Kids’

In April 2023, a Dutch court ordered Meijer to stop donating sperm to clinics or risk a fine of 100,000 euros (£88,000) per violation

He said he blocked some parents after he was abused by “a very aggressive couple” of children.

He insisted he had “always been respectful to them, always respected their privacy, always listened to what they wanted” but was hurt when he was “verbally abused.”

He said he had said that the children would always have the right to contact him, when they were of age, if they wanted to and regardless of how the parents had spoken to him.

But in some videos, Meijer also criticizes what he calls “bully mothers” and has listed their parenting styles.

Meijer hit the Netflix documentary – “The Man With 1000 Kids” – when it came out last summer.

He called the docuseries “misleading.” It included claims from parents who said they felt “betrayed, sad and angry” when they learned how many other children he had fathered.

They argued that Mr. Meijer’s continued donations violated the right to a private life of his donor children, whose ability to form romantic relationships is hampered by fears of accidental incest and inbreeding.

The Man With 1000 Kids investigated ‘the murky world of the fertility industry’ and how the YouTuber allegedly defrauded dozens of parents and eleven clinics around the world

Meijer said most of the families knew him and were happy with him.

He told the Independent at the time he “never had the idea of ​​having 100 children or 500 children.”

‘It happened step by step. Many donors would like to be in the news, but for me it would be completely fine if no one knew about me. Now they know about me, so I want to tell my side of the story.’

Meijer started donating sperm in 2007, at the age of 25.