Shock as teen surrogate gives birth to twins for Chinese man, 50, receives US$124,000
Embryo implanted in teenager when she was 16, man who paid her pretended she was his wife to secure crucial official documents
A 17-year-old girl from China’s Yi minority acted as a surrogate mother and egg provider for a 50-year-old man who allegedly paid her more than 900,000 yuan (US$124,000) to conceive twin boys.
The alleged arrangement has sparked widespread public outrage.
The scandal surfaced on March 24 when Shangguan Zhengyi, an anti-trafficking activist, revealed on social media that a Yi minority teenage girl became a surrogate mother through an agency in the southern city of Guangzhou and gave birth to twins.
The online post said that the girl, from Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province, southwestern China, who was born in May 2007, delivered male twins on February 2, in southern China’s Guangdong province.
The father of the twins is a 50-year-old man, surnamed Long, from Jiangxi province in southeastern China.
The girl was only 16 years old when the embryo was implanted.