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Couple charged with child abuse in surrogacy case; $100M bail sought

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A Chinese-born couple, Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, are facing charges in California for allegedly conspiring to abuse children born via surrogacy. Prosecutors are seeking $100 million bail for each individual, citing allegations that they directed nannies to physically punish at least 14 children, some as young as two months old, while monitoring the abuse through surveillance cameras. The district attorney's office described the scale of the alleged abuse as unprecedented. AI

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Couple charged with child abuse in surrogacy case; $100M bail sought

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Teresa Elena Frontado,Lucy Quaggin ·

    US seeks US$100 million bail each for Chinese-born couple in surrogacy child abuse case

    Los Angeles County prosecutors are seeking bail of US$100 million each for a Chinese-born couple charged on Tuesday with conspiring to abuse young children who were born through surrogacy and raised in their California mansion. Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39, allegedly dir…

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