Nationwide — Tronderrica James, a 30-year-old African American surrogate mom from Nevada, says she was misled into carrying a child for a Chinese language couple now linked to greater than 20 surrogate-born kids. She is suing after authorities eliminated the kids amid abuse and fraud investigations.
James says she believed she was serving to a pair who needed a household. As an alternative, she claims she was pulled into a fancy surrogacy association that hid key information about who the dad and mom had been and what number of kids they already had.
In response to the New York Submit, James was contacted by a Fb surrogacy group by a girl named “Jasmine,” who introduced herself as a consultant for the meant dad and mom. James was instructed the couple lived in Los Angeles, had one or no kids, and couldn’t talk straight due to a language barrier.
James later discovered the couple was Guojun Xuan, 65, and Silvia Zhang, 38. Court docket filings say they secretly managed two surrogacy businesses, Mark Surrogacy and Future Spring Surrogacy, which had been used to recruit surrogate moms throughout the nation.
“What you probably did… is foul, reckless and merciless,” James wrote in an August 2025 electronic mail cited in court docket information. “Inform me the reality about what occurred to the child I carried — the child you named Poppy.”
Her case surfaced after police eliminated 21 kids from Xuan and Zhang’s care in Arcadia, California. Authorities say 15 kids underneath the age of three had been discovered contained in the couple’s nine-bedroom house, whereas others had been situated in close by residences. The motion adopted hospital experiences involving a 2-month-old child who suffered severe accidents later attributed to a nanny.
Xuan and Zhang had been arrested final Could on suspicion of kid abuse and neglect and later launched on bond. No legal prices have been filed, however little one welfare investigations proceed throughout a number of states.
Different surrogates have since come ahead with comparable claims. Some say they solely discovered in regards to the investigation late of their pregnancies or after giving beginning. A number of at the moment are in search of custody of the kids they carried, whereas Xuan and Zhang have filed lawsuits in opposition to surrogates who minimize off contact earlier than supply.
James and her husband are in search of as much as $100 million in damages, accusing the couple of fraud, breach of contract, and emotional misery. Xuan and Zhang have denied any wrongdoing in court docket filings and couldn’t be reached for remark.
