Phnom Penh (VNA) - A Cambodian court on November 13 charged 18people with cross-border human trafficking and violation of surrogacy law.
Police said the group includes 11 surrogatemothers, two cooks and two managers, who were arrested during a raid in PhnomPenh on November 8. Three other suspects are on the run. If found guilty, theycould be sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
Cambodian authorities declined to disclosethe nationality of the intended parents whom those surrogate mothers arecarrying the babies for.
Cambodia banned surrogacy practice in 2016,describing it as a form of human trading. In June this year, authorities arrested 33surrogate mothers, two brokers and one operator of a surrogacy ring. They wereall charged with human trafficking and being intermediaries for surrogacy.
In August last year, a Cambodian courtsentenced Australian fertility specialist Tammy Davis-Charles to one and a halfyears in prison for running a surrogacy clinic in the country.
At that time, Davis-Charles confessed tothe court that she had arranged for 23 Cambodian women to carry babies for 18Australian couples and five American couples. She charged each foreign couple50,000 USD for surrogacy services and paid 10,000 USD to Cambodian women tobear pregnancies on their behalf.-VNA
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