Wannabe Mum Claims She Was Molested By Prolific Sperm Donor Prof

A wannabe mum - "desperate to have a baby" - told a jury today a University College London scientist, who says he's fathered 58 children via his sperm donor service, demanded sex in return for a sample.

Professor Gennadij Raivich, 51, a perinatal neuroscientist, denies sexually assaulting three women who used his unregulated "one stop shop" artificial insemination service, in the hope of becoming pregnant.

The 31 year-old single woman travelled from her Cambridgeshire village to Raivich's address at Rashleigh House, Thanet Street, St. Pancras after they communicated online.

Prosecutor Mr. Tom Wilkins told Blackfriars Crown Court Raivich persuaded her 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."

The woman gave a video-recorded interview to police in and told the jury from behind a screen: "He kept asking for AI Plus because it would make things quicker.

"He laid sofa cushions on the floor and was taking his trousers off and said he wanted AI Plus because it would be quick and he did not have time to provide the sample himself.

"With my baby brain I agreed to AI Plus and he took his underwear off and lay on the floor and I performed AI Plus and the donation was ready in thirty seconds.

"While I was doing AI Plus he asked me to take my clothes off so he could touch me.

"I said I did not mind doing AI Plus, but did not want to do anything else, but he put his hand on my bottom over my jeans then kept trying to put his hands down my waistband and up my top."

Raivich 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.

"Before putting the speculum inside me he slid a couple of fingers in and rubbed me and said having an orgasm would improve my chances of conceiving," she explained.

"I told him to stop because that was not what I was there for, but he tried it three or four times and I told him to stop each time and he did.

"He asked to see my breasts because he was a doctor and wanted to see if I had Polycystic Ovary Syndrome."

She said Raivich touched her breasts both "over and under" her clothing.

"I knew if I didn't do AI Plus I wouldn't get a donation and he wouldn't come to my house.

"I was excited, I was desperate at the time to have a child. That donation might have got me pregnant."

Mr. 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.

"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 donor and represents himself as a: 'Medical doctor based in Central London' providing a service called Intra-Cervical Insemination or ICI."

Before seeing the Cambridgeshire woman the first complainant saw him 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 was not the altruistic donor, but someone who is sexually-motivated," Mr. Wilkins told the jury. 

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 Cambridgeshire woman 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 Great Yarmouth woman on January 31, last year and assault by penetration on the same date.

Trial continues……………