![]() ![]() What she learned changed her world, and the film maker Hannah Olson followed her investigation and journey. She bought herself a home DNA kit as a retirement present when she stepped down from being a police detective. His evils came to light in the film Baby God, which follows a woman named Wendy Babst. In some cases, he was supposed to use the husband’s sperm but used his own instead, and in the case of his own daughter, he impregnated her during a medical examination. One by one, he would impregnate women with his own sperm, instead of random sperm from donors. Once back in the states, he opened his own women’s hospital, and that’s where the dirty deeds were done. He took interest in medicine watching the cows give birth back home on the farm, got into medicine, and then served as a field surgeon in World War Two, making it all the way to the rank of Colonel. He started as a Norman Rockwell type Americana doctor. Aside from dozens of unwitting children across the nation, he also molested his own children, even impregnating one with his own sperm! This monster died before any strong legal action could be brought his way, but he impacted so many lives 'He didn’t care, he wanted to play,' he adds. He was a fertility expert for four decades, and he’s known to have impregnated at least 26 women with his own sperm. says in the film, 'My father was crazy, also a pervert.' He molested Fortier Jr. ![]() In the end, Baby God does little more than check one more name on a list of predators.On this episode of the World Famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about a strange bit of true crime, the case of Dr. It raises questions the documentary doesn’t begin to explore, and makes the abuse of his children seem secondary rather than part of the same destructive personality behind all these profoundly damaging violations. Instead, it makes you think, “Wait, what?” Even if the documentary means to follow Babst’s investigation, dropping this news in so late is a huge problem. This revelation does not land as the shocking dramatic turn Olson might have wanted. When his mother found out, that’s when she divorced him and took the children away. says that his father had sexually abused all his children, sons and daughters, from an early age. Even at an hour and 18 minutes, Baby God feels padded.Īnd three-quarters of the way in, Olson makes the worst of the documentary’s bad narrative moves. They are distractions that add nothing except running time. One odd choice is the use of vintage animation and stock footage throughout: cartoonish images of sperm fertilizing eggs, scenes of neon Las Vegas in the 1960s. There is so much material here that Olson could have shaped better. The other says flat-out, “I don’t want to know.” “In his mind he meant no harm,” she says. Fortier was even named the Nevada Doctor of the Year in 1991. He became known as something of a miracle worker for his ability to help women with their fertility, conceive and carry babies to term. At least one of the adopted daughters seems to have bought into his justifications. Quincy Fortier opened the Women’s Hospital in Las Vegas in the 1960s and practiced obstetrics, gynecology, and fertility medicine for years. and his four siblings moved away with their mother after their parents divorced, and Fortier adopted two little girls as a single father. His son, Quincy Fortier Jr., says his father explained away his actions by saying, “I’m just helping out.” Fortier Jr. A recording of Fortier’s own voice insists it was common in those days for doctors to use their sperm. These heartbreaking reactions make the horror of Fortier’s actions clear, while people close to him reveal his delusions. “My life may have been altogether different,” she says. She wasn’t even trying to get pregnant when she went to see Fortier, and had saved money to go back to school. Like Holm, she is disturbed but resigned. Olson’s cameras meet mother and son the day after he has told her. And Mike Otis, born in 1949, says he spent a year considering whether to reveal the truth about his conception to his 93-year-old mother. Brad Gulko, a genome scientist also born in 1966, looks startlingly like the photographs of Fortier. And after a lifetime of service on the police force, she wonders if she has inherited any of Fortier’s evil in her DNA. She wants to change her nose so it looks less like Fortier’s. She wonders if she was right to tell her mother. Throughout the film, Babst raises thoughtful questions about her own identity and how the news changes it. Like his other victims, she is helpless to change the past. She had no reason to think that Fortier had substituted his own. She had been Fortier’s patient when she was a young bride having fertility problems, and the doctor told her to bring him a sample of her husband’s sperm for insemination. Babst’s mother, Cathy Holm, calmly tells her story.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |