Thirteen Filipinas convicted of violating Cambodia’s surrogacy ban were reportedly recruited online, the Philippine Embassy in Phnom Penh said Wednesday. Philippine Ambassador to Cambodia Flerida Ann Camille Mayo said the women were recruited by a Philippine-based agency offering surrogacy services.

THE Philippine Embassy in Cambodia has confirmed that 13 Filipinas were sentenced to two-year imprisonment over their involvement in a surrogacy scheme, which i

A Cambodian provincial court has handed down four-year jail terms for 13 Filipinas convicted of human trafficking and running an illegal surrogacy ring while police and immigration have begun deporting hundreds of Chinese suspected of running scam compounds.

Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia for intending to sell babies they carried through surrogacy. They were sentenced to four years in prison, but with two years suspended,

Thirteen women from the Philippines have been sentenced to four years in prison in Cambodia for acting as surrogate mothers for foreign clients. Commercial surrogacy is illegal in Cambodia, where it falls under a human trafficking law.

The 13 pregnant Filipino women who were sentenced to four years in jail in Cambodia for illegally acting as surrogate mothers were in “good condition,” an ambassador said Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Thirteen Filipino women were meted a four-year sentence, eventually reduced to two, in Cambodia for violating the surrogacy ban in the country, according to the Philippine Embassy in Phnom Penh.