Overview
- Arcadia police and the FBI are probing Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan’s alleged mass-surrogacy scheme after a 2-month-old’s head injuries triggered a May raid
- All 21 children born to surrogate mothers remain in protective custody under the Department of Children and Family Services
- Public records show Mark Surrogacy, registered at the couple’s Arcadia home, filed paperwork this month to dissolve the agency
- Surrogate mothers from Texas to Pennsylvania say they were deceived into carrying embryos for the pair and have launched legal actions to recover the children they bore
- Bioethics experts warn the case highlights serious gaps in U.S. surrogacy regulation and raises concerns over potential trafficking risks