**SPOILERS** Based on a true story "Seeds of Deception" has to do with the criminal actions of geneticist Dr. Cecil Jacobson, George Dzundza. The overly jolly friendly and concerned Dr. Jacobson in order to give some dozen, will never know the exact number, young women the gift of life ended up impregnating them with his own sperm. Dr. Jacobson's reign of terror-of rape by long distance-came to an end when a number of the women whom he cured of infertility notice that their new born children had a striking resemblance to the man who treated them! Dr. Cecil Jacobson!
One of Dr. Jacobson's success stories Mary Bennett, Melissa Gilbert, who together with her husband Greg, Tom Verica, had no possibility of having a child were excited as hell when it was reported that Mary was in fact pregnant. Later when their child was born he, Jesse played by Michael Charles Roman, developed a minor eye diseases Strabismus, or lazy eye, that had him wear an eye-patch in order to correct it. It was around that time when Dr. Jacobson was being accused of unethical behavior by the Virginia Medical Association that Mary coming to the Doctor's defense noticed a number of children at the Hall of Justice with the same kind of eye-patches that Jesse has! This shocking revelation on Mary's part started her thinking if the good doctor was in fact worth defending.
Mary went from being a staunch defender of the good doctor Jacobson to soon became a pain in his butt. This had Mary testifying, in disguise, against Jacobson in open court on the crime he perpetrated on her her husband as well as her, an Jacobson's, son Jesse! This all lead to Jacobson's conviction on as many as 52 charges of mail and wire fraud that put him behind bars for some five years and had his license suspended from practicing medicine.
It's hard to understand just what Dr. Jacobson's motives were in the very strange and destructive, to his patients fragile mental state, actions he did in the film. Admittedly Dr. Jacobson's research and artificial insemination techniques were very successful in having an amazing 25% success rate on the women, including Mary Bennett, that he treated. Why Jacobson had to use his own sperm to impregnate his patients instead of that of unknown but screened for disease donors was never really explained in the film. Dr. Jacobson's lame explanation, when the evidence of his crimes were a forgone conclusion, of not having anyone available to donate sperm so he had to use, after paying a trip to the bathroom, his own just made his guilt, in trying to explain it away, more obvious to the jury as well as those of us in the audience.
Dr. Jacobson's crimes may well have been motivated by his overblown ego more then anything else. Jacobson prided himself as being known in medical circles as "The Baby Maker" and what turned out that, in his way of making babies, his treatment wasn't for the most part with the sperm denoted to his laboratory or clinic by unknown but healthy and mentally sound donors but with his own.
In trying to create what seemed to be a race of his own, and in his own image, like the crazed Dr. Eric Vornoff in the movie "Bride of the Monster" Dr. Jacobson not only betrayed the trust and confidence of his desperate patients but gave their offspring's the very same imperfections, mentally and well as psychically, that he had!
One of Dr. Jacobson's success stories Mary Bennett, Melissa Gilbert, who together with her husband Greg, Tom Verica, had no possibility of having a child were excited as hell when it was reported that Mary was in fact pregnant. Later when their child was born he, Jesse played by Michael Charles Roman, developed a minor eye diseases Strabismus, or lazy eye, that had him wear an eye-patch in order to correct it. It was around that time when Dr. Jacobson was being accused of unethical behavior by the Virginia Medical Association that Mary coming to the Doctor's defense noticed a number of children at the Hall of Justice with the same kind of eye-patches that Jesse has! This shocking revelation on Mary's part started her thinking if the good doctor was in fact worth defending.
Mary went from being a staunch defender of the good doctor Jacobson to soon became a pain in his butt. This had Mary testifying, in disguise, against Jacobson in open court on the crime he perpetrated on her her husband as well as her, an Jacobson's, son Jesse! This all lead to Jacobson's conviction on as many as 52 charges of mail and wire fraud that put him behind bars for some five years and had his license suspended from practicing medicine.
It's hard to understand just what Dr. Jacobson's motives were in the very strange and destructive, to his patients fragile mental state, actions he did in the film. Admittedly Dr. Jacobson's research and artificial insemination techniques were very successful in having an amazing 25% success rate on the women, including Mary Bennett, that he treated. Why Jacobson had to use his own sperm to impregnate his patients instead of that of unknown but screened for disease donors was never really explained in the film. Dr. Jacobson's lame explanation, when the evidence of his crimes were a forgone conclusion, of not having anyone available to donate sperm so he had to use, after paying a trip to the bathroom, his own just made his guilt, in trying to explain it away, more obvious to the jury as well as those of us in the audience.
Dr. Jacobson's crimes may well have been motivated by his overblown ego more then anything else. Jacobson prided himself as being known in medical circles as "The Baby Maker" and what turned out that, in his way of making babies, his treatment wasn't for the most part with the sperm denoted to his laboratory or clinic by unknown but healthy and mentally sound donors but with his own.
In trying to create what seemed to be a race of his own, and in his own image, like the crazed Dr. Eric Vornoff in the movie "Bride of the Monster" Dr. Jacobson not only betrayed the trust and confidence of his desperate patients but gave their offspring's the very same imperfections, mentally and well as psychically, that he had!