Phnom Penh: Eleven women allegedly paid to be surrogate mums have been freed on bail after agreeing to keep the babies, Cambodia’s trafficking czar said, as the poor South-East Asian nation seeks to regulate the womb-for-hire trade.
The women were charged last November with human trafficking and acting as intermediaries for surrogacy agents after they were discovered in a raid on a house in the capital Phnom Penh.
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