- Title: Australian nurse jailed in Cambodia for running illegal surrogacy clinic
- Date: 3rd August 2017
- Summary: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (AUGUST 3, 2017) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF THE PHNOM PENH COURT BUILDING LION STATUES AT THE ENTRANCE OF COURT MEDIA WAITING FOR THE ARRIVAL OF SUSPECTS POLICE VAN CARRYING SUSPECTS DRIVING INTO COURT MEDIA WAITING OUTSIDE COURT POLICE ESCORTING THE SUSPECTS TO COURT ROOM MEDIA WAITING OUTSIDE COURT
- Embargoed: 17th August 2017 05:10
- Keywords: surrogacy court sentence Australian woman
- Location: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
- City: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
- Country: Cambodia
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions
- Reuters ID: LVA0016SLQUYT
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- Story Text: QUALITY AS INCOMING
An Australian nurse and two Cambodian assistants were found guilty of running an illegal commercial surrogacy clinic in Cambodia on Thursday (August 3) and sentenced to 1-1/2 years in prison.
Southeast Asia had been a popular international destination for infertile couples looking to have babies through commercial surrogacy. But Thailand banned the practice in 2015 after a series of high-profile cases and Cambodia followed suit in 2016.
Tammy Davis-Charles, 49, was guilty of being a intermediary in surrogacy and engaging in falsifying documents along with two Cambodian staff, Penh Rithy and Samrithchan Chariya, said Phnom Penh Municipal Court Judge So Lyna.
Penh Rithy and Samrithchan Chariya knew about the commercial surrogacy ban but still engaged in the business, said the judge.
Judge So Lyna said Davis-Charles charged foreign couples between $50,000 to $70,000 for surrogacy services and paid Cambodian women between $10,000 to $12,000 to carry babies on their behalf. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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