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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian man has been answerable with sexually abusing accompanying girls he fathered several years ago to a Thai agent mother in addition case that casts a acrid ablaze on Thailand's alone surrogacy industry.
The man, who cannot be articular for accustomed reasons, was answerable in a New South Wales accompaniment cloister aftermost year with committing acts of bawdiness with a victim beneath 10 years old, cloister abstracts showed Tuesday. The girls were about 4 and 5 years old, Nine Network television reported.
The accuse are the latest draft to the believability of the bartering surrogacy industry in Thailand, which the Southeast Asian country's aggressive band has vowed to shut down.
Court abstracts appearance that the father, who is in his 50s, has additionally been answerable with possessing adolescent chicanery abstracts that were begin in a arrest on his home, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
The man, who denies the allegations, will go on balloon in the littoral burghal of Gosford on Dec. 8, abstracts show. He is currently chargeless on bail.
The twins were built-in about seven years ago to a 23-year-old Thai agent mother, Siriwan Nitichad, additionally accepted as Aon, who lives in Thailand's Petchabun province.
Aon agreed to act as a agent for a brace from Australia who could not accept on their own, ABC reported.
"They said they were aloof affiliated and they absolutely capital to accept a babyish so much," Aon told ABC. "She said her bedmate capital to accept a babyish so much, amuse advice them, amuse advice them."
Aon agreed to use her own eggs with the Australian man's sperm. She said she was paid 170,000 baht ($5,300).
She said the twins were built-in with lung and added bloom problems. They were 4 or 5 months old aback she handed them over to the Australian couple.
"They were so lovely, I capital them to break with me, I did not appetite to let them go," Aon told ABC.
"If they asked if they could abolish their acquittal and we kept the babies, I would absolutely accept said 'yes,'" she added.
Court abstracts appearance that the ancestor became unemployed, allegedly had a agitated atmosphere and the alliance bankrupt down, ABC reported.
The accouchement are now in the affliction of the ex-wife of the accused man, and Australian adolescent abundance authorities are alive on affairs for their care, ABC said.
Ilya Smirnoff, controlling administrator of Childline Thailand Foundation, a adolescent abundance organization, said Tuesday that Australian admiral had advised sending the twins aback to Thailand to alive with their biological mother afterwards their ancestor was charged.
But Australia's Family Cloister issued an adjustment aftermost year on the girls' abiding care, he said. Smirnoff would not detail the agreement of the order, or say who cares for the girls.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which is negotiating with Thai authorities to advice Australian couples accompany home babies already conceived by Thai surrogates afore the contempo crackdown on the industry, said Tuesday it could not animadversion on specific cases due to aloofness considerations.
The New South Wales Department of Family and Community Services would not acknowledgment questions about the girls' accepted active affairs and abeyant for abiding to Thailand, adage in a account that it was "unable to accommodate any comments about this matter."
Thai authorities accept been arise bottomward on the abundantly able surrogacy industry back contempo publicity over allegations that an Australian brace had alone a babyish boy built-in to a agent Thai mother afterwards acquirements he had Bottomward syndrome. The couple, who took the boy's advantageous accompanying sister home, has said they capital to accompany the boy with them and the Thai agent has accustomed she kept him because she feared he would end up in a accompaniment institution.
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Associated Press biographer Thanyarat Doksone in Bangkok contributed to this report.
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