Bangkok: A wealthy Japanese man was granted “sole parent” rights to 13 children he fathered through Thai surrogate mothers, a Bangkok court ruled, paving the way for him to take custody of the group in Japan.
Mitsutoki Shigeta, 28, became the centre of a “baby factory” scandal in 2014 after Thai police said DNA samples linked him to nine infants found under the care of 24-hour nannies in a plush Bangkok apartment.
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