At the age of 21 Pattaramon Chanbua already has two children, aged six and three. She works on a food stall in a small seaside town south-east of Bangkok. It is an extremely hard existence. When offered A$16,000 (£9,000) to become a surrogate mother for an Australian couple she saw a way out: The money that was offered was a lot for me. In my mind, with that money, one, we can educate my children; two, we can repay our debt.
We only know about her because of a baby boy called Gammy, one of the twins she gave birth to seven months ago. Gammy has Downs syndrome and a congenital heart condition, and according to Chanbua, the Australian parents took Gammys twin sister but left him. The outrage this has provoked has resulted in donations being made online to fund medical care for Gammy.
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