Serial pest in sperm donor groups joins Clive Palmer’s colourful cast

A serial pest in sperm donation groups has joined the cast of bankrupts, fraudsters and fantasists in Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots and is running in the hotly contested western Sydney seat of Lindsay.

Joseph O’Connor claims in the biography posted on the party’s website that he brings “a wealth of experience in mental health and counselling” to his candidacy.

Trumpet of Patriots candidate Joseph O’Connor has been revealed as a serial pest in sperm donation groups.Credit: Matt Davidson

But this masthead can reveal that he has also presented himself as Dane McDuff, Blake McBeth, Adam Nilsson and Jack DeBevay in Facebook groups for women and couples looking for sperm donations, among a stream of identities that mushroom each time he is banned from a group.

Sperm donor groups generally do not allow members to use aliases.

Multiple women have complained to the group administrators that he has engaged in creepy behaviour, sent them unwanted imagery and is using the groups for sexual gratification.

The unwanted material included videos of himself on a porn site called “Chaturbate” where he uses the moniker JackPhallus.

In one of his early profiles, set up under the moniker Dane McDuff in 2019, he boasted of a “super high” sperm count.

“I kept knocking up all my previous girlfriends so figured I might as well come here and put it to good use,” he wrote. “Australia only pls unless you’re willing to travel, shipping sperm seems like it would reduce quality.”

He set up his own sperm donation group in 2022 under the alias Adam Nilsson, after administrators of other sperm donation groups collaborated to identify all his aliases and remove him from their groups. He posted his vital details, including a photograph, offering to donate sperm as recently as September last year.

One of the rules of his group is that if a man agrees to donate via artificial insemination, they cannot renege at the last moment and insist on natural insemination.

“Grow some balls I know a lot of you have tiny dicks and this is the only way your micropenis having self can get laid but I don’t care, go to a brothel,” the rule states.

Trumpet of Patriots chair Clive Palmer.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

“Anyone who whines, whinges, complains etc about anybody will be BANNED … This isn’t your soap box for you to have a cry and get sympathy because boo hoo it’s too hard.”

It is not clear which of the three administrators of the group wrote the rules.

But administrators of other groups have identified in O’Connor’s group numerous donors and recipients who have been banned from their groups, and claim he has rejected their offers to share evidence and collaborate to remove bad actors who put the community at risk.

O’Connor denied this allegation, saying he had banned numerous individuals from the group for catfishing, and denied that he had sent unsolicited videos of himself to women in other groups. He said he had been banned from the other groups for arguing and not any other reason.

“My intentions were genuine,” he said.

“I was looking to help people because IVF is too expensive for many people. Majority of people, sex wasn’t involved at all.”

He also shared screenshots of women who said they had become pregnant with his sperm, but asked that they not be shared in the interests of the women’s privacy. One of them went through an IVF clinic, he said.

But he said he had little interest in donating any more.

O’Connor’s Psychology Today profile says he has expertise in men’s issues, sex therapy and peer relationships. His candidate profile identifies housing affordability, homelessness and unemployment as the key issues in Lindsay, which encompasses the suburbs of Penrith, St Marys and Emu Plains in Sydney’s outer west.

He is the latest in a colourful cast of Trumpet candidates to exhibit multiple identities. David Sarikaya, who is running in Reid, calls himself “Professor” but is a fake psychologist who bought his PhD online for $250. He also has a fraud conviction and is a former bankrupt, a feature he shares with Deakin candidate Milton Wilde.

Todd Juchau, a security guard from Murrurrundi, claims to be a long-lost descendant of Charlemagne and tried to change his name by deed poll to “Prince”.

Gabrial Pennicott is a reinvented conman who moved to the Gold Coast after spending three years behind bars for fraud offences in Victoria.

Other interesting candidates include Michael Jessop, 70, who is facing weapons and stalking charges after police found camouflage clothing, an axe, a shovel, duct tape and a cadaver bag inside his vehicle outside Bli Bli on the Sunshine Coast. He is fighting the charges.

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