The revelations and allegations, including instances of child sexual abuse, only grow more horrible from there. “You know, my life may have been all together different.” I wasn’t wanting a baby at that time,” Dorothy Otis says. Unlike his fertility patients, the former Pioche resident says she went to Fortier because she wasn’t feeling well and thought she was being treated for an infection. One of those siblings is Mike Otis, who reveals to his 93-year-old mother, Dorothy, that Fortier was his biological father. Her investigation, chronicled in the film, unearthed many more half-siblings, born between the 1940s and 1980s, than she ever expected.Īsked how many siblings he thinks he has, Quincy Fortier Jr. Yet that’s how Holm’s daughter, Wendi Babst, a former detective who’d embraced genealogy as a hobby during her retirement, learned Fortier was her real father. They mention that Fortier circumcised himself and that he treated them as their gynecologist.ĭespite his medical expertise, the doctor surely never imagined the availability of inexpensive home DNA test kits would further sully his reputation. The doctor’s staunchest defenders in “Baby God,” his daughters Sonia and Nanette, discuss how he delivered them and then adopted them when Fortier was 55 and going through a divorce. With the benefit of modern hindsight, parts of Fortier’s past maybe should have raised some eyebrows. DNA tests later confirmed Fortier as the father of those two children, and a confidential settlement was reached during the trial. Then, in 1996, Fortier was sued by Mary Craddock, a former patient who said she thought she was being inseminated with her husband’s sperm during visits in 19. In 1991, he was named Nevada Physician of the Year by the Nevada State Medical Association. In 1966, Fortier was elected to the Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital board of trustees alongside an up-and-comer named Harry Reid. He was instrumental in the growth of Faith Lutheran Academy. Fortier was commander of a medical reserve unit at Nellis Air Force Base. It’s hard to overstate the doctor’s good standing in Nevada. It was that intelligence that would lead to Fortier’s further undoing. “Then, over time,” she says in the documentary, “I would look at Wendi, and I’d think, ‘Gee, you know, it’s really funny that she doesn’t really resemble her father’s side of the family at all.’ ”Īs Wendi got older, Holm remembers thinking it was odd that her daughter was gifted with so much intelligence - more than either parent should have passed down. Holm brought Fortier a sample of her husband’s sperm and, in 1966, she gave birth to a daughter named Wendi. “Nobody had any solutions,” Holm says, “until I went to Dr. She was 22, married, living in Las Vegas and having trouble conceiving. “In the ’60s, it was, ‘Get married, have kids, everything’s gonna go nice for the rest of your life,’ ” Cathy Holm says in the film, directed by Hannah Olson.

Unfortunately for his reputation, Fortier lived 45 more years and spent the decade before his death in 2006 dogged by lawsuits alleging sexual abuse and that he impregnated patients with his sperm without their knowledge or consent.įortier’s dirty little secrets form the basis of the documentary “Baby God” (9 p.m. This ride’s about to get wild.Ī renowned fertility doctor, Fortier began a general practice in Pioche in 1945, opened Women’s Hospital in Las Vegas in 1961,and was a pillar of the community for the next 35 years. Quincy Fortier.įor everyone else: Buckle up. Longtime Las Vegans will remember the name Dr. Quincy Fortier? Let us know in the comments below.įor any other soap opera and entertainment news, please visit again Daily Soap Dish. Don’t forget to visit TVRocker for all of the latest exciting news on all of your favorite daytime television soaps.Dr Quincy Fortier is supported by his daughter, Nanette, after leaving district court following a settlement in a civil suit against him. What do you think? Did you know about this story with Dr. HBO’s ‘Baby God’ premieres December 2, 2020 It’s incredible how much we’ve learned about DNA and genetics in the last 100 years, and how this man took advantage of our lack of understanding to run this terrible business. This film will be part of a collection of 5 crime-centered documentaries and it just the beginning. Through interviews with his patients, family, and newfound offspring, we will learn more about this man and the ethics of what he was doing. Some of the comments on the trailer were short, and a bit confusing, “Why Baby “God”, tho?”, “Eugenics, Made in America ?”, and “This story is nuts”. HBO’s ‘Baby God’ Official Trailer – The Terrifying Truth Behind Dr.

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