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A surgeon on Long Island has made a little peculiar divorce in which still requires the wife to pay $ 1.5 million for the kidney donated to him in 2001, when her life depended on an organ transplant.

Richard Batista, who works in the medical center at the University of Nassau on Long Island, says that your claim is a result of the conduct of his wife, whom he accuses of having cheated with a physical therapist and do not allow for eight months three daughters, 14, 11 and 8 years they had in their marriage.


"This is my last resort. I do not want to be in the public eye," said Batista media and that the donated organ Downell his wife, a nurse, in an attempt to save her marriage.

"My first priority was to save his life and the second save our marriage," said Batista, 49, who added "there is a pain deeper than being betrayed by the person to whom you have spent your life."


After two failed transplants, finally Batista, who was responsible for looking after his wife donated her kidney after medical tests showed that the compatibility.

The marriage of the couple survived another four years until his wife's filing for divorce in July 2005.