S/O Thai surrogate twin with Down Syndrome

I hadn't heard this, good grief what a sad mess it all is!!

I read that he has 22 !!! counts of sexual assault against young girls against him. This whole story is totally bizarre!

That's f***ing insane. This guy and his wife are quite the piece of work. But as birukitty says, now it makes sense why they went to Thailand.

I don't know if it's the same in Australia, maybe one of the Aussie girls will confirm later. But here in the UK they have to have the same checks made on them as to their suitability to adopt prior to collecting the child in the same way as if they were domestic adoptive parents. They have to have the legal papers issued by our Social Services ( Adoption dept) before they are allowed to re -enter the UK with the child.

The whole affair is sickening!

And mine!!!!!

Hiring of a surrogate in Australia is illegal. It can only be done for "altruistic" purposes only. Generally (and it is not common here at all) it will be a family member acting as the surrogate. There have been an increasing amount of people going to places like India and Thailand to hire surrogates and this whole mess has opened the debate further about changing surrogacy laws here. 

The laws vary from state to state but in Victoria where I live the prospective parents have to go through a criminal record check and child protection order check.

I couldn't watch the 60 Minutes story last night - he just made my skin crawl. I think they have come out and changed their story once he was outed for the sex offences.

I'm not exactly sure, it is very complicated. I think they would have had to prove by DNA that the child is genetically related to one of the parents and then produce this information to the Australian High Commission to enable the child to enter. 

I just found this though on the Australian Governement's website:

Sponsorship limitation and best interests of the child
The sponsorship of a child who is younger than 18 years of age cannot be approved where the sponsor or the sponsor's spouse or de facto partner has a conviction or an outstanding charge for an offence against a child, except in very limited circumstances. There must also be no compelling reason to believe that the grant of the visa would not be in the best interests of the child. 


You would think that in this case, they should not have been allowed given the father's convictions.

I think there are about 20 Austalian couples who currently are waiting for babies to be born to surrogates in Thailand and this has thrown them all into panic. Thailand is very conscious of "saving face" and they may change laws to put some of these arrangements in to jeopardy. Our Foreign Minister is trying to have any new laws phased in so that genuine couples aren't affected. I definitely think that these countries need to tighten up what seems like very haphazard laws but it would be heartbreaking if you were in the middle of this.

So, he's cured of the pedophilia and there's no way he'd harm this little girl? Is that really what he claimed in the 60 Minutes piece?

Yep. That's his claim. Sounds more like he did illegal acts to get children to molest. Hope he gets his baby girl taken away from him.

Does anyone have a link to the original thread or story? Thanks.