Husband Asked His Cheating Wife For His Kidney Back After Divorce

The wife of New York doctor Richard Batista needed a kidney transplant. Dr. Richard Batista proved to be a match to his wife, Dawnell, so he duly offered up one of his own kidneys. Almost eight years later, Dr. Batista wants his kidney back.
According to Richard Batista, Dawnell Batista began having an affair a couple of years after recovering from the kidney transplant procedure. In 2005, Dawnell Batista filed for divorce from Richard Batista.
Nearly four years later, the parties to the divorce still appear to be at an impasse. Dr. Richard Batista is also claiming that he is being prevented from seeing his children. And so, possibly as a way to get his estranged wife's attention, Richard Batista is demanding the kidney back. Since losing the kidney would likely kill Dawnell Batista, Richard Batista is willing to compromise and settle for one and a half million dollars in compensation for the kidney.

Divorces can get pretty nasty. When love goes wrong, that emotion quickly turns to hate and parties to a divorce will do things to one another that hitherto they had never contemplated doing to another human being. Possessions such as homes, cars, and bank accounts are all used as weapons by one divorced party to damage another. And that is nothing compared to how children are used. That is especially true for the man, as divorce judges tend to have bias in favor of the mother for custody. The woman, as apparently Dawnell Batista is doing, will use access to the children as a way to torment her estranged husband.
Using a body part, like a kidney, is certainly a new one. There is probably no other case quite like the Batista case in which one party demanded the return of a donated body part.
Divorce lawyers interviewed about the case suggest that Richard Batista has no chance of recovering his kidney as part of the divorce settlement. One suspects that Richard Batista is not seriously suggesting that his estranged wife Dawnell Batista fork over the kidney and is just using this demand as an attention getting device to try to break the impasse the couple finds itself in.
Of course Richard Batista, in demanding the kidney back as part of the divorce settlement, runs the risk of alienating the judge. Divorce judges, no doubt, believe that they have seen it all when it comes to the behavior of people in a divorce. But demanding a kidney without which Dawnell Batista will likely not live seems a little bit crazy, even by the standards of nasty divorces. And that may cost Richard Batista, frustrated and betrayed as he is, in the end.