This is not one of somewhat off balanced individuals walking the earth, this is a surgeon, but he did say he would take 1.5 million instead of the return of the kidney. Obviously he saved her life and this sounds like one of those moments of rage that occur with divorce, or at least let’s hope so.
This is a bit different than the usual fighting over the furniture, refrigerator, etc. Does the wife have 1.5 million of funds first of all, and how would one use a kidney as collateral? The story said he has not been able to see his kids for a few months, so that may add fuel to the fire, but if I were him and wondered where the wife and kidney had been, he might be better off to hire a private investigator and try that route. If he was looking for publicity for his case, he certainly has it now. BD 
A Long Island surgeon embroiled in a nearly four-year divorce proceeding wants his estranged wife to return the kidney he donated to her, although he says he'll settle for $1.5 million in compensation.
Dr. Richard Batista, a surgeon at Nassau University Medical Center, told reporters at his lawyer's Long Island office Wednesday that he decided to go public with his demand for kidney compensation because he has grown frustrated with the negotiations with his estranged wife. He said he gave his kidney to Dawnell Batista, now 44, in June 2001. She filed for divorce in July 2005, although he claims she began having an extramarital affair 18 months to two years after receiving the kidney transplant, his attorney, Dominick Barbara said.
Batista, 49, said he has no regrets about donating the kidney, only about the failed marriage. The couple was married in 1990 and lived in a million-dollar home in Massapequa. They met while he was working at a hospital and she was training to be a nurse.
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-29/123135986657520.xml&storylist=simetro
01.08.2009
ReplyDeleteWhich kind is the mastermind of the illogical concept of Marriage until Divorce Laws of Nurture to adapt that outlawed the logical precept of Family until Death Law of Nature to adopt and wastes hard earned moneys to protect sexual interests, sacrifice familial interests, and claim its best legal system beats all others: Mankind, Womankind or Bothkinds? In America, a husband wants his life-supporting kidney back from his adulterous wife. In Australia, a wife burns his adulterous husband’s life-giving tool. http://frigginloon.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/woman-set-fire-to-her-husbands-genitals/
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