taabarang wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2017 6:19 pm "I understand your sentiment, Yootee, but your kids are going to be fine contributing members of society. Honestly."

Well I certainly hope UT's kids will be but I hope the same for mine. What family says within family is window dressing. The only other question that comes to mind is will there be a society worth contributing to?

That's a fair question.

Human Trafficking Police Not Investigating Alleged Surrogacy Firm
June 19, 2017
A Phnom Penh fertility clinic implicated during Cambodia’s first commercial surrogacy trial since the practice was banned in October is not being investigated, a police official said on Sunday.

Australian Tammy Davis–Charles, who was arrested alongside two of her Cambodian colleagues in November, repeated at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court last Tuesday what she said she told police when she was arrested: that she had simply been working as a “medical assistant” to surrogate mothers at Fertility Clinic of Cambodia (FCC).

Despite Ms. Davis-Charles’ claim and various surrogacy websites mentioning the clinic, FCC has so far eluded questioning.

Keo Thea, chief of Phnom Penh’s anti-human trafficking bureau, said on Sunday that police had sought out a recruiting agent working for FCC but “they fled already.” Police would not question FCC without a court order, he added...
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/huma ... rm-131485/

Australian nurse sentenced to 18 months' jail in Cambodia on surrogacy charges
3 August 2017
An Australian nurse has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for sourcing clients for a surrogacy clinic in Cambodia, as authorities tackle “womb for rent” businesses.
Tammy Davis-Charles, 49, has been in custody since her arrest in November last year, weeks after Cambodia abruptly banned commercial surrogacy.

“Tammy Davis-Charles was an intermediary between intended parents and Cambodian surrogate mothers,” Judge Sor Lina said delivering the ruling.

The Melbourne native was also convicted of falsifying documents.

“The court sentences Tammy Davis-Charles to one-and-a-half-years in jail,” the judge added.

Two Cambodian colleagues were convicted of the same charges and also jailed for 18 months.
In her defence statement in July, Davis-Charles broke down in tears in front of the court appealing for mercy from the bench, saying she had already “lost everything” during her six months in custody...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... cy-charges

Nine future parents, out of an estimated 200 cases of surrogacy, have chosen to follow the official route to remove their babies from Cambodia. It is believed that most parents have chosen to smuggle their surrogate babies out of Cambodia through either Vietnam or Thailand because of the slow legal process and the red tape.

Nine file with court to make surrogacy claim
Thu, 10 August 2017
Two weeks after the Ministry of Interior released official guidelines for removing babies born through surrogacy from the country, the intended parents of just nine such children have followed the instructions and taken their cases to court, a Phnom Penh Municipal Court official said yesterday.

The guidelines, which were sent to embassies, require intended parents to get a DNA test, explain the reasons they undertook surrogacy and file paperwork to the court. They also stipulate that parents must give the Cambodian government an update on their child’s mental and physical wellbeing each year until the child turns 18.

“We have received nine applications from January to July, and they now have been sent to the judge,” said Sous Vichyea Randy, the court’s deputy administration chief. “No cases have been decided by the judges yet.”...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/n ... gacy-claim

Cambodian surrogacy law due in 2018, but legality still uncertain
11 August 2017
A long-awaited law on surrogacy will be introduced next year, with a first draft already completed, according to the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and UN Special Rapporteur Rhona Smith, yet officials yesterday said no decision had been made on whether the contentious practice would be made illegal or not.

The news comes a week after the sentencing of Australian nurse Tammy Davis-Charles and her two Cambodian associates, Samrith Chakriya and Penh Rithy, to 18 months in prison for their role in facilitating surrogate pregnancies for foreign couples desperate for children.
In the absence of a surrogacy law, the trio were controversially charged with being intermediaries between a pregnant woman and adoptive parents, and for fraudulently obtaining documents, like birth certificates...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/c ... -uncertain

This is a bit unfair, imo, she was allowed to practise with no problems and was quite open about what was going on, from what I gather.

Then some new law suddenly gets passed and she gets arrested and sentenced.

I suppose if she went overboard with facilitating documents...

Cambodia set to ban commercial surrogacy
23 August 2017
- Cambodia is set to permanently ban commercial surrogacy, ending hopes of Australian parents intending to enter into any arrangements with surrogate mothers in the impoverished country. A draft law imposing the ban is likely to be passed by Cambodia's parliament early next year.

Surrogacy operators had been confident the government in Phnom Penh would allow commercial surrogacy under strict supervision, legalising what was a booming industry until it was shut down during a crackdown late last year.

But Phon Puthborey, a spokesman for the Women's Affair Ministry, told the Cambodia Daily the "main content of the law is that we absolutely ban commercial surrogacy and any actions that get benefit or profit from surrogacy [are] completely banned"...
http://www.smh.com.au/world/cambodia-se ... y2608.html