BioNews - First of three women in US 'baby-selling' ring sentenced: A former lawyer convicted of wire fraud and other charges after her involvement in a 'baby-selling' ring has been sentenced to five months imprisonment by a Californian court.
Hilary Neiman, along with Theresa Erickson and Carla Chambers, who are due to be sentenced in January, recruited American women to act as surrogates who would then conceive through IVF using donated gametes.
The offenders would then 'shop' the babies by falsely telling prospective adoptive parents that those who had intended to adopt the babies had backed out of the scheme. When a new couple had been found to adopt a future child, they were asked to pay over $100,000 in fees, while the surrogates were paid between $38,000 and $45,000.
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