bryce cleary's donation resulted in the birth of at least 17 which were.e's jamie yuccas. >> the scope of this became so bi it'ster: dr. bryce cleary was a medical student at oregon health and science university in 1989 when he was recruited by the school's perfilt clinic to donate sperm for infertile couples and groundbreaking research. >> i know what i was told. >> reporter: and it was no more than five kids, and it was that they would-- >> they'd send the samples to the east coast. >> reporter: but nearly 30 years later with help from the website ancestry.com, donor children began contacting dr. cleary. you've come to learn you have how many children? >> there's at least 17 that i know of in the local area. it's difficult to meet someone who... has your d.n.a. in them, and you wonder if they had a good life. >> reporter: dr. cleary met one of his donor children, allysen allee, this week, for the first time. >> meeting allysen was emotional for me. it was difficult. >> i wasn't searching for any sort of relationship or anything, but dr. cleary and his fa

bryce cleary said his donated sperm was used to conceive 17 children, many of them still living neare only on "cbs this morning," he tells jamie yuccas that 30 years ago he was told that would not happen. >> there are all kinds of things that could go wrong with this. >> reporter: for decades when dr. bryce cleary thought of his family he thought of his wife and four children, but he soon found out that he had more children, many more, in fact. >> when the scope of this became so big, it's overwhelming. >> 30 years ago cleary was a medical student at oregon health and science university. he was recruited by the school's fertility clinic to donate sperm for infertile couples and research programs. wednesday he filed a lawsuit for more than $5 million against the university. in the suit cleary says he was promised that all fertilizations would be limited to women not residing anywhere near the state of oregon and the pacific northwest and no more than five children would be born of a donor's sperm. >> i don't know if it was written down. i know it was promised. >> in 2018 cleary regist

bryce cleary was looking for. >> and at some point i have to say this is crazy. i can't be emotionally invested in all these people, and it's been very difficult. >> reporter: an emotional cleary during a press conference reflected on his time at ohs cup he was recruited by them to give sperm donations, reluctant, agreed under the condition that the donation would be used for wishful mothers on the east coast to produce a maximum of five children and then only used for research. >> i was concerned about my own future children and any interaction they would unknowingly have with children produced in the program. >> reporter: multiple donor children started contacting cleary after a lengthy ancestry.com, including allison ali. >> knowing that you were a product of fraud against somebody else is emotionally overwhelming. rep mccleary has four children of his own and learned some of his donor children have attended the same college and church as their siblings. >> they were just turning this into a profit, well this is my dad it was like, allison's life, her kid's li

bryce cleary was a 23-year-old medical ntudent at oregon health and 1ience university in 1989 when heecruited by the school's fertility clinic to donate sperm per infertile couples and groundbreaking research. he agreed under two conditions: ua i was absolutely guaranteed that there would be a maximum of five children produced, and that those specimens would be sent to the east coast. >> reporter: but nearly 30 years later, with the help from the website ancestry.com, donor cildren began contacting dr. cleary, and he soon realized at 1ast 17 kids were conceived using his sperm, all of them born in oregon and other parts of the pacific northwest. >> and at some point i just had to say, "this is crazy. i can't-- i can't be emotionally invested in all these people." >> reporter: dr. cleary met one of his donor children, allysen allee, this week, for the first time. >> knowing that you were a product of fraud against somebody else is emotionally overwhelming. >> reporter: married with a family of four, cleary says his worst fear came true: having his naturally born offspring and anor chil

bryce cleary was a 23-year-old medical student at oregon health and science university in 1989 when he was recruited by the school's fertility clinic to donate sperm for infertile couples and groundbreaking research. he agreed under two conditions: >> i was absolutely guaranteed that there would be a maximum of five children produced, and that those specimens would be sent to the east coast. >> reporter: but nearly 30 years later, with the help from the website ancestry.com, donor children began contacting dr. cleary, and he soon realized at least 17 kids were conceived using his sperm, all of them born in oregon and other parts of the pacific northwest. >> and at some point i just had to say, "this is crazy.t-- t bey invested in all these people." >> reporter: dr. cleary met one of his donor children, allysen allee, this week, for the first time. >> knowing that you were a product of fraud against somebody else is emotionally overwhelming. >> reporter: married with a family of four, cleary says his worst fear came true: having his naturally born offspring and donor children living in

bryce cleary seeks $5 million in damages.erm to the science university as part of a fertility study. he said the clinic promised no more than five children would be conceived and the mothers would live on the east coast. he discovered through ancestry.com that he has at least 17 biological children, all living in oregon. >> the matches came back and i knew something was wrong. there were four instant matches and the odds of that was not reasonable. >> it has been emotionally overwhelming for us siblings to continue finding that there is more and more of us than we had grown up in knowing. >> some of those kids unknowingly grew up with and went to school with the four custodial children and the lawsuit alleges emotional pain that affected his personal, professional and marital relationships. >>> poison control centers are seeing a rise in nicotine cases with vaping more popular. some centers are getting calls about children actually eating vaping pods that are filled with liquid nicotine and other parents are calling after fin

bryce cleary says he donated sperm at a clinic at woregon health and science university in 1989 and they would be born to mothers outside of the pacific northwest. also his identity was to remain anonymous. >> that's not what happened. cleary discovered through ancestry.com that he has at least what tony mentioned, 17 children in addition to the four he has with his wife. the lawsuit claims many of them in oregon a some unknowinglily attended the same schools and churches. allison reached out after discovering he was her father through ancestry.com. >> knowing that you were a product of fraud against somebody else is emotionally overwhelming. >> i can't be emotionally invested in all of these people and it's been very difficult. >> oregon health and science university says in a statement duct with the gravity thatf it deserves,on butsc could not comment on the case because of patient privacy concerns. there's so many pitfalls here, because if they were going to the same schools and churches, they could start dating and interacting. that's scary stuff. >> they're also paying young people