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A biracial baby was born to a white couple in Brisbane in an IVF mix-up that Australia's biggest fertility company kept secret for the past 11 years.
The incident has never been made public before, but ABC Investigations has learned shocking details from multiple sources with knowledge of the birth and the company's cover-up.
The baby's delivery at a Brisbane hospital in 2014 was the first time the couple realised something had gone wrong with their treatment.
Queensland Fertility Group (QFG), which is owned by Australia's largest fertility company, Virtus Health, only confirmed the case after ABC Investigations uncovered the tightly held secret and put questions to the IVF giant.
It said: "Queensland Fertility Group is aware of this matter and empathises with this family."
ABC Investigations can reveal embryos were created at QFG's Brisbane clinic using the woman's eggs and donor sperm imported from a US sperm bank.
The couple had chosen a donor whose description matched the husband's Caucasian features — including fair hair and blue eyes.
When the baby was born, the ethnicity was entirely different to...