Japanese man given sole custody of 13 surrogate children by Thai court
(The Guardian Japan)

Children, born to nine different women, taken into foster care in 2014 but will now move to Japan with fatherA wealthy Japanese man has been granted sole parent rights to 13 children he fathered through Thai surrogate mothers, in a court ruling that paves the way for him to take them to Japan.Mitsutoki Shigeta, 28, became the centre of a `baby factory` scandal in 2014 after Thai police linked him via DNA to nine infants found under the care of 24-hour nannies in a luxury Bangkok apartment. Related: Australian nurse jailed over Cambodian surrogacy clinic has sentence upheld Continue reading...