(Reuters file photo)The Central Juvenile and Family Court on Tuesday allowed a 28-year-old Japanese man to take home 13 children born to surrogate women in Thailand, granting him sole parental custody. According to the ruling, the man hired nine Thai women to be surrogate mothers for his children in 2013. Mr Shigeta had also opened trust fund accounts for the 13 children in Singapore, the court found, and had previously successfully raised other surrogate children in Japan and Cambodia, arranging Japanese citizenship for all his children in Japan. Police raid a condominium on Soi Lat Phrao 130 in Bang Kapi district, Bangkok, on Aug 5, 2014, and find nine surrogate children of Mitsuoki Shigeta there. He added that Mr Shigeta had grown up in an extended family, so he loved being surrounded by large numbers of children.

Source: Bangkok Post February 20, 2018 06:39 UTC