Just months after Australians were outraged to hear that a convicted murderer would possibly be allowed to undergo IVF from prison, a convict has been found to have fathered a child while incarcerated — through IVF.
The Herald Sun reported that Keisha Lampi is expecting a baby, fathered by her boyfriend, Dale David Williams. Williams is a drug trafficker and an organized crime figure, and has also previously been accused of domestic violence. He is currently serving a 16-year sentence at Port Phillip Prison, a maximum security facility, after being caught trying to smuggle over 300 pounds of methamphetamine into Australia.
Williams was one of 800 criminals captured in the global ANOM sting, Operation Trojan Shield, which was investigated jointly by the FBI and Australian police. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said it was “a heavy blow against organised crime,” while Europol called it the “biggest ever law enforcement operation against encrypted communication.” Authorities were able to read messages in real time about planned murder plots, drug trafficking, and more.
“All they talk about is drugs, violence, hits on each other, innocent people who are going to be murdered, a whole range of things,” Australian Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw said. People were arrested around the world, including in New Zealand, the United States, Sweden, and the Netherlands, with countless lives likely saved as planned hits and assassinations were disrupted.
Despite his incarceration, Williams was allowed to participate in the IVF process to impregnate Lampi. Conjugal visits are not permitted in Australia’s maximum security prisons — but the Allan government (the current state government overseeing Victoria, Australia) has continued to allow prisoners to undergo fertility treatments.
“The Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that prisoners are entitled to seek access to fertility treatments,” an Allan spokesperson said. “We are considering advice on whether this is being delivered in line with community expectations.”
Williams was accused of several domestic violence incidents; in 2013, he punched and kicked a woman so severely that she had to be hospitalized overnight, and was bedridden for weeks. In 2017, Williams dragged a woman from her vehicle, kicked her, forced her into his car, and repeatedly punched her in the face. The woman was treated at the Alfred Hospital for multiple injuries; he was arrested two months later, where he allegedly attacked the same woman again and urinated on her. He pled guilty to one charge of recklessly causing injury and one charge of contravening a Family Violence Intervention Order, and was sentenced to 10 months in prison in 2018.
A police source further said he was “the undisputed leader of the Frankston Crew” and oversaw the criminal organization. “He’s a very violent man,” the police source said. “He’s aloof. I’d say he’s a psychopath. A cold-blooded, angry, nasty man.”
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In recent months, the public was outraged as news emerged that Alicia Schiller, a convicted murderer, was planning to have a baby from prison using IVF. While the government had approved her plan, local IVF clinics refused to work with her, and she was forced to abandon the idea. Evidently, the same has not happened with Williams, as Lampi has said she will give birth this year and has posted pictures of her baby bump on social media. The notion is horrifying, not only because Williams’ violent criminal background does not bode well for parenting a child, but because of the further commodification of children.
A child is a human being, not a product to be bought and sold — yet Williams and Lampi were able to successfully undergo IVF, with no concern as to how this would affect the actual child being conceived. This child will not only potentially live one day in a home with a violent father, but until then, has been purposely and intentionally created to be raised without a father at all. There is no world in which this could be deemed to be in the best interest of the child, and yet, the fertility industry and the Australian government still allowed it to happen.
It’s a further sign of how the fertility industry has stripped children of their humanity and turned them into nothing more than items people feel entitled to to buy, sell, and destroy at will.
