Chapter 8 - THE CLINIC INVENTORY Asteron opened an internal investigation.
Then regulators became involved.
Old Harbor Ridge records were retrieved.
Some were digital.
Some were paper.
Some were barely readable.
The original inventory showed five frozen embryos connected to our account.
Then one disappeared.
The missing embryo had been marked as transferred under a “directed donation.”
But the consent document attached to that transfer belonged to someone else.
The signatures looked like ours.
They weren't.
Forensic analysis later showed that our signatures had been copied from an older storage authorization and inserted into the donation form.
The embryo label was ours.
The donation status was not.
The transfer had been made possible by a catastrophic records failure.
A legacy code had been interpreted incorrectly during a computer migration.
A status marked “decision pending” had been treated as “donation eligible.”
Then someone used the mistake to justify the transfer.
Afterward, instead of notifying us, the clinic marked the embryo as lost.
One mistake became another.
Then another.
Until a child was born.
The investigation revealed something worse.
An embryology supervisor named Denise Hall had authorized the transfer.
Whether she deliberately created the false consent or simply ordered someone else to “complete” the paperwork remained unclear.
But she knew the donor consent was missing.
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And she proceeded anyway.
Six years later, the consequences had finally found everyone involved.
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