A Florida couple has launched legal action against their fertility doctor, alleging that an IVF error resulted in the use of the wrong sperm to conceive their baby.

Natalie Strong, 36, and her husband Joshua Strong, 53, welcomed a daughter last year following two rounds of in vitro fertilization at Brown Fertility Associates in Jacksonville.

But the lawsuit says a standard blood test performed after the baby’s birth raised immediate questions when it showed that the newborn has B-positive blood.

Natalie has O-negative blood, while Joshua has A-negative blood — a combination that, according to the couple, could not biologically produce a child with a positive blood type.

The Strongs filed a negligence lawsuit Thursday against the Jacksonville fertility clinic and Dr Samuel Brown, alleging that sperm belonging to someone other than Joshua was used during the creation of their embryos.

“The report confirmed that Natalie is the biological mother of the daughter she carried and delivered, conceived from the embryo Brown Fertility transferred into her body, and that Joshua is not the biological father,” the court filing states.

“There is only one possible conclusion: Brown Fertility used the wrong sperm.”

During a Thursday press conference announcing the IVF lawsuit, the couple said the discovery that Joshua was not biologically related to their daughter turned what should have been a joyful time with their newborn into heartbreak, First Coast News reported.

‘It took away the euphoria of having a baby. I mean, this is going to affect us for the rest of our lives,’ Natalie said. 

‘It’s a daily struggle with, you know, the emotional aspect of it ’cause, you know, you do have sadness and anger, and in the same day you also have joy and love,’ Joshua added.

The couple claimed they paid ‘tens of thousands of dollars’ to Brown Fertility to have biological children together, the lawsuit claims.

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Joshua previously had a vasectomy, so he had to undergo a painful sperm retrieval for the IVF process, the suit continued. 

‘Joshua submitted to invasive surgery to retrieve sperm that, somewhere between the freezer and the petri dish, was substituted with the sperm of a man Brown Fertility cannot identify,’ the filing stated.

According to the lawsuit, the couple was able to create seven embryos, and Natalie miscarried after the first transfer, but was able to carry the second transfer to term and gave birth on June 5, 2025.

Their lawsuit seeks $50,000 in damages and wants the clinic to be required to account for Joshua’s sperm.

‘We want to know what happened to his sperm. We want to make sure it was not used anywhere else,’ Natalie said.

The couple’s attorney, Rob Marcereau of the Fertility Law Group, told the Daily Mail they want to hold the clinic accountable and help prevent others from going through what they did.

‘The Strongs filed this lawsuit to get answers and hold Dr. Brown and his clinic accountable for what happened,’ Marcereau said.

‘By sharing their story publicly, they also hope to help prevent another family from going through the same thing.’

The Daily Mail contacted Brown Fertility and Dr Brown for comment. 

For much of the 2026 season, the Los Angeles Dodgers have managed their roster like a sturdy ship battling through relentless storms.

Shoulders, elbows, backs, necks, knees, hands, biceps and blisters have all taken their toll. Now, with October nearing, Blake Snell’s groin injury has added another concern.

In what has become something of an annual challenge, the Dodgers have spent much of their historic pursuit trying to stay ahead of the injured list. The latest figures illustrate just how heavily baseball’s powerhouse has been affected.

The Dodgers rank 11th among MLB’s 30 teams in RotoWire’s latest injury severity rankings, carrying a 75-point score. They have 11 players on the 60-day injured list and another six on the 10- or 15-day IL. RotoWire’s formula places greater emphasis on extended absences, assigning five points for each 60-day IL stint and three points for shorter 10- or 15-day placements.

Ironically, this marks the first time all season the Dodgers have dropped out of the top 10. They ranked eighth at the end of August and had remained in the top 10 for much of the year. Their move down to 11th, however, may have arrived at just the right moment.

Los Angeles has already locked up its 14th straight postseason berth and captured the NL West for the 13th time in 14 seasons. Next comes a bid to become the first National League franchise to win three consecutive World Series titles.

That pursuit will unfold with several of the club’s biggest names still working through injuries.

Shohei Ohtani remains on the 15-day IL while dealing with lingering issues in his left knee and right biceps. Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman recently told the California Post that Ohtani is “progressing well” and is expected to return before the regular season ends.

All-Star closer Edwin Diaz, who has dealt with multiple injuries this season, was activated Friday after missing time since Aug. 18 because of neck inflammation.

All-Star center fielder Andy Pages is still sidelined with a fractured left hand, though he could be activated during the Dodgers’ final homestand.

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Tyler Glasnow is back in the starting rotation, but missed more than three months with lower back spasms before returning in late August. Snell opened the season sidelined by shoulder fatigue and underwent elbow surgery in May and didn’t return until August. 

On Wednesday in Cincinnati, he lasted just one inning before left groin tightness forced him from the game. A source told the California Post the decision to remove him from the game was “precautionary,” and Snell himself said he expects to make his next start. 

Roki Sasaki has been sidelined since Aug. 27 with a blister on his pitching hand, and Will Smith recently returned after missing nearly three months with neck inflammation. 

The Giants and Orioles are the only two teams in RotoWire’s study that have more than 100 points on their severity score due to the amount of players currently on the 60-day IL. 

Currently there are 526 roster players currently on injured lists across all 30 teams. 

According to Spotrac, the Dodgers have had 26 different players on the IL this season and lead the league in total days players have been on the injured list with 2,194. They trail only the New York Yankees ($91.4 million) with an estimated cash total of $83 million in players salaries on the IL this season. 

The Dodgers survived six months of baseball’s version of a demolition derby and still won the West. The question now isn’t whether they were good enough to survive the regular season.

It’s whether enough of them will be healthy enough to survive October and bring home a third straight World Series title.

A woman dubbed the “Bourbon Street Hustler” has been convicted of negligent homicide in the death of a Telemundo reporter who traveled to Louisiana to cover the Super Bowl.

A Louisiana jury on Thursday also convicted Denette Colbert, 49, and her accomplice, Rickey White, 35, of racketeering in connection with the death of Adam Manzano, 27, at a hotel in Kenner, a New Orleans suburb, according to the Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office.

Both defendants faced manslaughter charges, but after a little more than five hours of deliberations, jurors found only Colbert guilty of negligent homicide.

Under Louisiana law, negligent homicide carries a potential prison term of up to 40 years, while racketeering can result in a 50-year sentence, prosecutors said.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I could tell you something different, but the truth is, there is nothing anybody in this room can do to bring Adan Manzano back to his family,” Assistant District Attorney Brendan Bowen told jurors during closing arguments Thursday as he urged them to convict the pair.

“What you can do is make his death mean something. Let Adan Manzano be the last victim that Rickey White and Danette Colbert ever get to target.”

Colbert was the last person recorded leaving Manzano’s hotel room before he was found dead there on Feb. 5, 2025.

Manzano, a Telemundo Kansas City reporter in the area to cover the Super Bowl, was found lying face down on a pillow. He was unable to breathe after ingesting alcohol and Xanax.

His death came one year after his wife was killed in a car crash. The couple left behind a toddler daughter.

Surveillance video showed Colbert and Manzano entering a Comfort Suites hotel at about 5 a.m. that morning. In the hours that followed, footage showed Colbert leaving the room, returning, then departing again.

Manzano never emerged and was found dead that night — with his phone and credit card missing from the hotel room.

The card was used for fraudulent charges in stores around New Orleans, Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley said at the time.

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Cops arrested Colbert the next day, after a sweep of her house uncovered the credit card and phone, along with narcotics and a stolen firearm.

Colbert and White had spent years carrying out a criminal enterprise, luring victims in the French Quarter with sex, then drugging them and stealing their credit cards and phones.

Big Easy locals even referred to her as the “Bourbon Street Hustler,” the Daily Mail previously reported.

In court documents, prosecutors described Colbert as acting under the guise of a “prostitute or ‘party girl’” while White, known as “King Ricky,” acted as her “pimp”, providing security and searching for victims.

Prosecutors argued that Colbert, White, and Christian Anderson — another man who helped Colbert and White with their criminal scheme — targeted the reporter that night.

Court documents revealed extensive text messages between the trio showing that the victims discussed their plots to incapacitate and rob victims.

Anderson, 35, testified against Colbert and White in exchange for reduced charges of simple robbery and access device fraud. He pleaded guilty to both charges and received a six-year prison sentence.

Stavros Panagoulopoulos, Colbert’s attorney, told KLTV that he was disappointed in the racketeering conviction but considered the jury’s decision on the negligent homicide charge a small legal victory.

He plans to appeal her conviction, the outlet reported.

Colbert and White will be sentenced in late September, according to the district attorney’s office.

With Post Wires