A man from Japan have baby factory in Thailand, try to get his rights to 13 children

News24xx.com -  A Bangkok court on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 granted a Japanese man right to be a single parent for his 13 children who were born through Thai surrogate mothers.

The man known as Mitsutoki Shigeta made a scandal of "baby factory" in 2014 after Thai police said DNA samples linked him to nine babies that were found in an apartment in Bangkok, plus at least four other babies born by surrogates.

The murky case threw the spotlight on Thailand's then unregulated rent-a-womb industry, and helped push authorities to bar foreigners from paying for Thai surrogates in 2015.

Shigeta, the son of a Japanese tycoon, left Thailand after the scandal but later he sued Thailand's Ministry of Social Development and Human Security for custody of his children

The Bangkok Central Court of Juvenile said in a statement

"For the happiness and opportunity to be received by 13 children from their biological father, who does not have history of bad behavior, the court determined that all 13 people were born from surrogate mothers to be legal children of the plaintiffs,".

Shigeta, who did not attend the trial directly, is considered the sole parent of 13 such children after a court in Thailand signed their rights.

"Because he is from a wealthy family, he has a lot of money and has prepared nurses and baby sisters to care for his children in Japan," said Hakim.

Shigeta's lawyer said that he would contact the Social Welfare Ministry, who has taken care for the 13 children since the scandal broke out in 2014 and talk about next steps would takes in transferring them from state custody.

Shigeta hired three surrogate mothers in Thailand before the kingdom banned lucrative trade in 2015, following a series of scandals and engagements.

Surrogacy Agency is rapidly migrating to Cambodia, but in a few years, the Cambodia goverment following and banning the industry in 2016.

In recent months, there have been signs that the industry has shifted to Laos, an opaque communist state with no restrictions on surrogacy.

Some surrogacy agents now offer services to embryo transfer to Laos and then provide pregnancy treatment for a replacement in Thailand, a wealthier country with vastly superior medical facilities.

 

 

 

 

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