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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (Jan. 7) - A New York doctor is demanding that his estranged wife pay him $1.5 million to compensate him for the kidney he gave her while they were still on good terms.

Dr. Richard Batista spoke Wednesday to reporters at his lawyer's office in Garden City, Long Island.
He said he gave his kidney to Dawnell Batista in June 2001. She filed for divorce in July 2005.
The 49-year-old Batista works for Nassau University Medical Center. The couple have three children, ages, 8, 11 and 14.
A message left for his wife's attorney, Douglas Rothkopf, was not immediately returned.

Sorry, I disagree.... she cheated on him. If I give someone a kidney and shorten my life, and that bitch cheats on me.... then I would want my $$$$ for my organ.

If her ass was needing dialysis she wouldn't have the same quality of life she has now. Who cheats on a spouse that would donate an organ to help you live?

The asshole is the one that would walk away from someone who stood by you during sickness.

paintedlady said:

Where does it say she cheated on him?

SCNDLS said:

The story was on the the news this morning. Dude is a surgeon and was on TV in tears saying how hurt and betrayed he felt. The story ran on the Today show.

paintedlady said:

Oh, okay. I hadn't seen that. Despite the cheating, I still don't agree with asking for $1.5 million for saving someone's life, especially since she IS the mother of his 3 kids. Yeah, I'd be pissed but asking for the money now is just silly IMO. Also, there are two sides to every story cuz for all we know he may have been cheating too or beating her ass. Her being the one filing for divorce makes me think there's a lot more to the story. Was she on the Today Show telling her side?

SCNDLS said:

No the Today show was just reporting the story, the husband was specific, he didn't cheat. He said his heart was broken and all whining. I think she dissed him. I don't think he beat her, I just think she left him for another man and his pride couldn't take it.

BUT.... If I give MY kidney to a spouse and they want to divorce me after I give my ^&#@@&@^ kidney to him, then a fucker needs to pay me for that quality of life that he is now enjoying with someone else.
[Edited 1/8/09 6:15am]

paintedlady said:

Well, I guess the moral of the story is: Never donate an organ to somebody you fucking today cuz you may not be fucking 'em tomorrow and now yo dumb ass only got ONE kidney.

SCNDLS said:

Well, put! That's right up there with tattooing someone's name and the word "forever" on your body.

SCNDLS said:

No the Today show was just reporting the story, the husband was specific, he didn't cheat. He said his heart was broken and all whining. I think she dissed him. I don't think he beat her, I just think she left him for another man and his pride couldn't take it.

BUT.... If I give MY kidney to a spouse and they want to divorce me after I give my ^&#@@&@^ kidney to him, then a fucker needs to pay me for that quality of life that he is now enjoying with someone else.
[Edited 1/8/09 6:15am]

He probably knows he's gonna lose, but he's got the money to spend and he just wants the world to know what a skanky ho she is.

He doesn't really want the kidney back; in fact, he said he'd donate it all over again to her if he had to.

What he wants is $1.5 million for her cheating on him.

If the facts he's laid out are true, I think he deserves everything she has. I mean, DAMN! The dude gave you a body part, and you still stepped out on him?

NO sympathy from me.

RodeoSchro said:

agree

From the Daily News;

"After an injury suffered while trying to earn her black belt, she began physical therapy - which evolved into an affair with her therapist..."

In the words of Nelson Muntz - "Hah-ha!"

From the Daily News;

"After an injury suffered while trying to earn her black belt, she began physical therapy - which evolved into an affair with her therapist..."

In the words of Nelson Muntz - "Hah-ha!"

horatio said:

By LARRY McSHANE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Updated Thursday, January 8th 2009, 2:30 AM


Warga/News

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Richard Batista can live with his broken heart. He just can't bear his cheating wife living with his healthy kidney.

The Long Island doctor wants the one-time love of his life to pay $1.5 million for the organ he bestowed on her eight years ago in a gift meant to save her life and their foundering marriage.

"There's no deeper pain you can ever express than to be betrayed by the person you devoted your life to," Batista told reporters in Garden City Wednesday.

"I saved her life. But the pain is unbearable."

Batista charged his wife, Dawnell, repaid his gesture by first sleeping with her physical therapist - and then denying him access to their three kids in an increasingly bitter divorce.

Adding to his anguish, Batista insists his decision to donate his kidney in 2001 was in part a failed effort to rescue their troubled relationship.

"My first priority was to save her life," the 49-year-old doctor said. "The second bonus was to turn our marriage around."

Dawnell Batista survived. Their marriage lasted just another four years, with the wife filing for divorce in July 2005.

The once-happy pair met two decades ago when he was a resident and she a training nurse at North Shore Hospital.

They were married in August 1990, celebrating with a lavish Long Island reception, and were soon living in a $1 million Massapequa home.

The couple shared the joy of three daughters, but Dawnell was battling kidney failure and the couple's relationship turned shaky.

Her husband - a surgeon at Nassau University Medical Center - injected her three times a week with medication as part of her health care regime.

Dawnell's health continued to deteriorate. After two transplants failed, her husband volunteered to donate one of his kidneys - and discovered he was a match, a 1-in-700,000 shot.

"I was the first and only one to step to the plate," the doctor recalled. Without his donation, Dawnell faced a long wait: There are 6,748 people awaiting kidneys in New York State, the New York Organ Donor Network says.

Successful surgery followed at a Minnesota hospital on June 28, 2001. Batista said he was looking forward to happier times with his now-healthy bride - but his hopes proved futile.

"Nothing changed," he said.

Dawnell Batista viewed the kidney as a new lease on life, too. She returned to school to earn a master's degree in nursing, and took up karate, her husband said.

After an injury suffered while trying to earn her black belt, she began physical therapy - which evolved into an affair with her therapist, Batista said.

"It put a hole in my heart that still exists," Batista said of his wife's disloyalty. "To this day, I'm a man of pride. To be betrayed that way, humiliated - I can't even began to say."

Dawnell Batista was not at her home Wednesday. Her lawyer did not return a call for comment.

Batista said the ongoing ugliness began on day one of their divorce.

"She slapped me with divorce papers when I was in surgery trying to save another person's life," he fumed.

The case was apparently the first of its kind in New York State. Julia Rivera of the New York Organ Donor Network said she never heard of anything similar.

"This is extraordinary," the spokeswoman said.

Batista insisted his cash-for-kidney claim was a direct result of his wife's behavior. He said he hasn't seen his three daughters - ages 14, 11 and 8 - in months.

"This is my last resort," Batista said. "I didn't want to be in the public eye."

Despite the animosity, Batista insisted he would donate the kidney all over again to his hopefully soon-to-be-ex. He fondly recalls a visit to her room on the day after surgery.

"There was no greater feeling on this planet," he said. "As God is my witness, I felt as if I could put my arm around Jesus Christ. I was walking on a cloud."
[Edited 1/8/09 7:07am]

wait wait wait dudes a surgeon????


FUCK THAT!!!!!


Cut her and take ur damn kidney back. ...the hell?!?
Take her vagina too while u at it since she wanna go around screwing people all willy nilly.

SCNDLS said:

why do i have a feeling that this fool didn't sign a prenup before getting married.

ALWAYS sign a prenup! have a cheating clause in it where if either party cheats then they get NOTHING in the divorce.

this man is a damn whiny fool.
[Edited 1/8/09 7:51am]

DanceWme said:

JasmineFire said:

A prenup only protects his assets before the marriage not anything amassed during the marriage. It looks like they were married for 15 years so she's entitled to get half of his shit while they were married.