N.Y.C. woman wants to extract her dead husband's sperm for reproduction

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Manhattan widow wants to extract husband's sperm
By DAREH GREGORIAN
Last Updated: 3:27 PM, October 15, 2010
Posted: 3:01 PM, October 15, 2010
A Manhattan woman is looking for a court order allowing sperm to be extracted from her dead husband.

Victoria Chege said her husband George Kamau "died suddenly at the age of 37 on October 11, 2010 in Norwalk, CT."

The Connecticut Medical Examiner's office said he'd committed suicide by hanging.

In her petition for the court to allow the extraction, she said Kamau "expressed his desire to have children so that his legacy may continue," and "would have consented to the current petition."

Chege's asking a judge for immediate action, because "time is of the essence."

"The sperm [of the] deceased George Kamau must be harvested and frozen as soon as possible from the time of his death or it will be useless," Chege said.

She said she needed to hold onto the sperm "so that Etaghua Asefa, family friend and appointed surrogate, may someday give birth to the child he wanted but was prevented from concieving."

The petition said the company that's set to perform the extraction, the Sperm and Embryo Bank of New Jersey, told her it would need a court order before it could get to work. The filing says Kamau's body is still in Connecticut, but the wife plans to bury him in New York.

Chege's lawyer declined immediate comment.

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