Overview
- The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrested Guojun Xuan and Sylvia Zhang on Tuesday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit child abuse.
- Detectives searched the couple’s West Camino Real mansion last year and found about 15 children living there, and court records say Zhang told investigators she is the biological mother of 22 children mostly born through surrogacy.
- A search-warrant affidavit made public by investigators says roughly 25 cameras in the home recorded multiple instances of physical and emotional abuse by at least six live-in caregivers.
- Doctors at Children’s Hospital in East Hollywood treated a 2-month-old with bleeding in the brain and retina after the child was brought in, and a nanny has been charged in that case but fled to China before arrest.
- Prosecutors say several caregivers left the country and the district attorney’s office is continuing its review with a news conference expected to outline possible additional charges.