Australian nurse arrested under new surrogacy laws.

[CEOCambodiaNews]

According to this article, the arrests were made following a 10 month investigation into the Australian surrogacy agency. However, surrogacy in Cambodia was not declared an illegal practice until October 25 2016, and the present case is being pursued under anti-trafficking law Article 332. The Cambodian authorities have clearly decided to put an immediate halt to surrogacy practices in the kingdom.
It is reported that 23 Cambodian women have been employed as surrogate mothers by Fertility Solutions PGD and that 5 of them have already given birth. As surrogacy has now become illegal, the legal status of the surrogate babies and what will happen to them is unclear.
According to the Ministry of Health, there were about 50 surrogacy providers operating in Cambodia when the prakas were issued last month.

Anti-trafficking police arrest surrogacy trio
Mon, 21 November 2016
Cristina Maza, Kong Meta and Sen David

Anti-human trafficking police in Phnom Penh arrested three people on Friday for their involvement in Cambodia’s opaque commercial surrogacy industry, marking the first-ever arrests in a sector still largely free of concrete legal parameters.

Australian national Tammy Davis-Charles, founder of the surrogacy agency Fertility Solutions PGD, was arrested along with two Cambodian nationals who worked with her – Penh Rithy, an employee at the Ministry of Commerce, and Sambath Chakriya, a nurse at Sihanouk Hospital – said Keo Thea, director of the anti-trafficking office.

The arrest was the result of a 10-month investigation into a surrogacy operation that allegedly recruited 23 surrogate mothers in Phnom Penh and Kandal provinces, he added. Eighteen women are currently pregnant and five babies have left Cambodia with their intended parents.

The trio is being charged under Article 332 of the Penal Code, which prohibits acting as an intermediary between adoptive parents and a pregnant woman. They are also charged with possession of fraudulent documents and could face up to two years in prison if found guilty, Thea said.

Commercial surrogacy came to Cambodia about a year ago after it was banned in countries like Thailand, India and Nepal. Agencies like Fertility Solutions PGD, which operated in Thailand for years, moved to Cambodia, where the legal framework was uncertain.

Article 332 was originally drafted to combat trafficking and does not directly apply to surrogacy. But over the past several months, the government routinely stated its intention to ban the industry.

On October 24, the Ministry of Health issued a prakas banning surrogacy outright. But legal experts said the directive lacked the force of law...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/a ... ogacy-trio

[CEOCambodiaNews]

Anti-trafficking police arrest surrogacy trio

Mon, 21 November 2016
Cristina Maza, Kong Meta and Sen David

Anti-human trafficking police in Phnom Penh arrested three people on Friday for their involvement in Cambodia’s opaque commercial surrogacy industry, marking the first-ever arrests in a sector still largely free of concrete legal parameters.

Australian national Tammy Davis-Charles, founder of the surrogacy agency Fertility Solutions PGD, was arrested along with two Cambodian nationals who worked with her – Penh Rithy, an employee at the Ministry of Commerce, and Sambath Chakriya, a nurse at Sihanouk Hospital – said Keo Thea, director of the anti-trafficking office.



full-story.... http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/a ... ogacy-trio

[CEOCambodiaNews]

Australian woman charged with running illegal surrogacy clinic in Cambodia
By Anne Barker, wires

Updated 33 minutes ago
Tammy Davis-Charles (L) was arrested by anti-human trafficking police.
Photo: Tammy Davis-Charles (L) was arrested by anti-human trafficking police. (Supplied: Cambodian National Police)
Map: Cambodia

As many as 40 Australian couples may be forced to abandon hopes of a family, after an Australian woman was charged with running an illegal surrogacy clinic in Cambodia.
Key points:

Tammy Davis-Charles arrested by anti-human trafficking police at weekend
She runs Fertility Solutions clinic which matches would-be parents with surrogate mothers
Ms Davis-Charles was well trusted by many Australians, Families Through Surrogacy director says

Tammy Davis-Charles, 49, was arrested at the weekend by anti-human trafficking police, as she travelled to the airport in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh after being monitored by authorities for 10 months, according to the Cambodia Daily newspaper.

full-story......http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-21/a ... ia/8042708

[bolueeleh]

good scam, busted

[CEOCambodiaNews]

Australian and Cambodian officials set for meeting over surrogacy crisis

Lindsay Murdoch

Bangkok: The fate of dozens of babies carried by Cambodian surrogate mothers for Australian biological parents is uncertain amid a crackdown on commercial surrogacy in Cambodia.

Authorities in the capital, Phnom Penh, have called a meeting for Thursday where Australian officials are expected to appeal to the Cambodian government to put in place transitional arrangements to protect babies, surrogate mothers and intending parents.

full-story...http://www.theage.com.au/world/australi ... su37y.html

[aussieguy100]

good scam, busted

Your knowledge and empathy for childless couples shines through...


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[bolueeleh]

good scam, busted

Your knowledge and empathy for childless couples shines through...


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i am a childless couple, i have been married for 18years and no children yet, your one sided biased blinded opinion and failure to realise a humorous quip shine through

[bolueeleh]

she maybe doing a wonderful job of giving childless couple a reason to live or she may be ripping ignorant cambodian girls off, we may never know, but ignorant of the law is no excuse for breaking it

1 - i think she may have started operation here before the law comes into effect
2 - she should have stop doing that when the law comes into effect
3 - if she have money maybe she get away with a slap on the wrist
4 - if she really wants to help childless couple, she should go to another country that allows surrogacy

end of comment, not going to drawn into useless babble about other people lives

[bolueeleh]

maybe sometime in the future someone could provide me with a humorous quip when i'm arrested for tax evasion

[CEOCambodiaNews]

Surrogates left in limbo after arrests

Tue, 22 November 2016
Kong Meta and Cristina Maza

Just days after anti-trafficking police arrested three people for their involvement in Cambodia’s underground surrogacy industry, one surrogate mother recruited by the trio called on Cambodia’s government to legalise the industry.

“We are poor, so I want our government to let us do surrogacy legally so that we will not be cheated and we will have someone to protect us,” said 32-year-old Chan Nareth, who is five months’ pregnant with the child of a Chinese couple.

Full-story.......http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/s ... er-arrests