MANILA, Philippines -- Immigration officers offloaded on New Year’s Day four women bound for Cambodia through Thailand to be surrogate mothers.

Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said the women, who were intercepted at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1, were offered $8,700 each to bear children for foreign couples by being impregnated with sperm from the male partner.

 

Their recruiter, also a woman, was also offloaded from the Thai Airways flight and arrested.

Morente said the women, who are considered victims of human trafficking, admitted that they were promised $200 after the first injection of sperm into their uterus and another $500 on confirmation of the child’s heartbeat.

 

“The rest of the money, they said, would be paid in monthly installments during their pregnancy and until the baby is delivered and sent to the country of the paternal parent,” Morente added.

 

 “The victims admitted that after arriving in Bangkok they would proceed to Phnom Penh, where they will be fetched by a Cambodian who arranged the deal with the foreigners who were supposed to father the babies they would bear,” he said. “They added that their babies will be fathered by a German, a Nigerian, an Australian, and a Chinese, respectively.”

 

Morente withheld the name of the recruiter pending investigation of what he said was the newly discovered human trafficking operation.

He also ordered strict screening of Filipino tourists bound for Thailand and Cambodia.

 

source http://interaksyon.com/article/135811/bi-intercepts-4-women-bound-for-cambodia-to-be-surrogate-mothers

Not sure of the illegality of being a surrogate mother.

14 hours ago, smotherb said:

Not sure of the illegality of being a surrogate mother.

 

agreed. it's their bodies. they also seem amicable to the arrangement.