UCL Prof Who Has Fathered 58 Children Via Sperm Donations Denies Molesting Three 'Customers'

A professor, who claims he has fathered 58 children via his "one stop shop" insemination service, preyed on the desperation of three wannabe mums by sexually assaulting them during his consultations, a court heard today.

Professor Gennadij Raivich, 51, a perinatal neuroscientist at University College London told one victim she had to repeatedly perform oral sex on him to obtain the samples she craved, the Blackfriars Crown Court jury were told.

Raivich, of Rashleigh House, Thanet Street, St. Pancras carried a "donation kit" which contained a dvd player, which he watched pornography on, rubber gloves and a speculum and pipette and was happy to carry-out home visits all over the country.

Prosecutor Mr. Tom Wilkins said: "Each complainant in this case is a woman who met the defendant through an internet forum dedicated to sperm donation.

"He provided a one stop shop for women who wanted semen. All were desperate to have a baby."

His service was informal and did not conform to the guidelines of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and he often used the pseudonym Frank Qualman, the court was told.

Two of the women, both aged 26, were in lesbian relationships and the third, 31, was single and Raivich told her that her chances of becoming pregnant were increased if she orgasmed during the insemination process.

"The defendant met these women in order to inseminate them. He took advantage of their desperation, his anonymity and informality by committing various types of sexual assaults upon them," added Mr. Wilkins.

The prosecution accept Raivich is a qualified doctor in Germany, but has always been an academic scientist and has never practiced medicine and is not registered with the General Medical Council.

"On the websites he advertises his services as a sperm diner and represents himself as a: 'Medical doctor based in Central London' providing a service called Intra-Cervical Insemination or ICI."

The first victim - a lesbian - saw Raivich on February 27, 2012 when "wholly gratuitously and without warning" he inserted two to three of this fingers into her vagina for three to five seconds, the jury were told.

"Such was her desperation to have a baby she returned ten times to his Russell Square address."

He persuaded the single woman to provide what he called: "Artificial Insemination Plus" - namely oral sex to assist him provide the sample.

"She says she was faced with the ultimatum that unless she performed oral sex on him she would not get a donation. She was desperate for a baby and agreed."

Raivich also groped her between her legs during the sessions. "He told her an orgasm would help her conceive.

"She told him three or four times not to touch her there, but he went ahead regardless and now he says he can't recall stimulating her in this way.

"He was not the altruistic donor, but someone who is sexually-motivated," Mr. Wilkins told the jury. 

"She was desperate for a baby and returned a week later for a donation in return for performing oral sex on him and felt she had to put up with it, she had been trying for a baby for a year."

The third victim was visited by Raivich at her home in Great Yarmouth and on the second occasion sexually assaulted her, she says.

"He lifted up her t-shirt and groped her breasts and put two fingers into her vagina and rubbed her clitoris without consent.

"He says he checked her breasts to test her fertility."

Raivich has pleaded not guilty to assault by digital penetration in relation to the first woman; one count of assault by penetration and sexual assault against the second on November 21, 2012 and two counts of assault by penetration and two counts of sexual assault on November 27.

He also denies two counts of sexual assault against the third woman on January 31, last year and assault by penetration on the same date.

Trial continues……………