Feds Probe Alleged China-Linked Surrogacy Scheme In California

Federal authorities are investigating allegations of a China-tied, for-profit baby selling operation in California, wherein women are conned into delivering babies for imposter surrogates, The Daily Wire can first report.

Federal sources inside California confirmed the investigation into the alleged “rent-a-womb” scheme on Wednesday evening, after The Daily Wire inquired into claims that the California Department of Child and Family Services removed over 20 babies from the home of a Chinese couple running the Marks Surrogacy agency.

Surrogate mother Kayla Elliot shared with The Daily Wire that she was one of many women contacted through Facebook by Marks Surrogacy, which is now going by the name “Future Spring Surrogacy,” an agency that pairs parents with potential surrogate mothers. She entered into a contract with the agency, carried the baby to term, and gave up the baby to its “intended parents,” she told The Daily Wire.

She says that she and multiple women across the country were contracted by the surrogacy agency to carry children for the same “intended parents” — who, she says, turned out to be Mandarin-speaking employees of the surrogacy agency that had recruited her.

Then she learned, to her horror, that the California child services agency had allegedly discovered 21 babies in the home of the “intended parents,” and that the baby she had birthed was in the care of the state. Elliot said she has since been contacted by the FBI and questioned thoroughly about the agency, its handling of the baby, its ties to China, and more.

The California Department of Child and Family Services and Future Spring Surrogacy did not immediately return The Daily Wire’s requests for comment.