The trial against a British fertility expert accused of "pretend[ing]" to implant embryos as part of an "elaborate deception" to make more money began Monday, Reuters/Yahoo! News reports. Embryologist Paul Fielding pleaded not guilty to eight counts of false accounting and three counts of "assault occasioning actual bodily harm" in Southampton Crown Court for allegedly allowing women on eight occasions to undergo "possibly painful" implantation operations while the women's frozen embryos remained in storage. According to Jeremy Gibbons, the prosecutor in the trial, Fielding was attempting to increase his pay. Fielding, who worked at the North Hampshire Hospital and the Hampshire Clinic, was paid about $80 every time he defrosted embryos for surgery. "[Fielding] knew those women were not getting their embryos, because he had not thawed them. That was a cruel deception by this defendant," Gibbons said. The trial is ongoing (Allen, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 11/25).