{"id":487200,"date":"2026-10-06T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487200\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:06:08","slug":"southern-california-couple-charged-amid-unprecedented-and-horrific-surrogacy-probe-los-angeles-county-da-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487200\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern California couple charged amid “unprecedented” and “horrific” surrogacy probe, Los Angeles County DA says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday announced charges in a child abuse case involving a couple who had 21 children removed from their home<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang of Arcadia, who were arrested at their home Tuesday morning,\u00a0were set to be charged with several felonies<\/a>, including conspiracy to commit child abuse and dissuading a witness, DA Nathan Hochman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He is asking for bail to be set at $100 million.<\/p>\n

\u00a0have been investigated by both local and federal officials for years as they’ve parented at least 25 children through surrogacy<\/a>. Now, an apparent breakthrough in the case will take shape as DA Nathan Hochman and LA County Sheriff Robert Luna speak.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, CBS News spoke to 17 of the couple’s surrogates from around the country, and all of them said they didn’t know they were building such a large family. Many of the surrogates have claimed they were misled during the process and weren’t aware of the other women carrying babies for the same couple.<\/p>\n

Aerial images over the couple’s home on Tuesday morning showed a heavy law enforcement presence, including apparent FBI agents on the property.<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday morning, the exact charges were not immediately made clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday announced charges in a child abuse case involving a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-487200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}