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March 14, 2005

BY CHRIS HACK






A Cook County family court judge has ordered Chicago doctor Richard Phillips
to double his child support payments, and he'll soon start building a
relationship with a 5-year-old daughter he's never met.

But he won't give up a pending civil lawsuit accusing his old flame, Olympia
Fields doctor Sharon Irons, of a "calculated, profound personal betrayal"
after a brief tryst in 1999. Phillips insists the pair never had intercourse
and that Irons "harvested" his sperm after oral sex to impregnate herself.

Phillips won a victory in the case last month when an appeals court ruled --
if he can actually prove he was the victim of a sperm scheme -- Irons can be
held liable for inflicting emotional damages.

Irons insists she got pregnant "the old-fashioned way," and notes Phillips
sued her only after he was slapped with a paternity suit. In contradiction
to Phillips' claims, Irons said they simply had sex and later watched as
results of a home pregnancy test flashed positive.

Never heard child's voice



Even though DNA testing proved Phillips is the father, in court Friday he
asked a judge to reconsider an earlier ruling making him legally responsible
for the child. Circuit Judge Luciano Panici instead ordered the feuding
couple to begin hammering out details of the paternity dispute.

About a year after Phillips was deemed the baby's father, he agreed to pay
$800 a month in child support. Panici temporarily doubled the child support
payments to $1,600 until further information is brought to court about
Phillips' income and debt obligations.

Phillips agreed to begin visitation with the girl; social workers will be on
hand as he's introduced as her father.

"I've never heard this child's voice before," Phillips said, adding that he
now plans to file a petition for joint custody of the girl.

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