A Bay Area couple is among hundreds across the country using surrogates to have babies. But they are now caught in a financial nightmare.
Cindy Bi told the I-Team, “We lost about $45,000 because our surrogate was only paid for one month.”
They counted on an escrow company to hold money for the surrogate’s fees and medical expenses, but the company has shut down and their money is gone. I-Team reporter Dan Noyes has been working with ABC News and our sister stations across the country on this report.
This is affecting hundreds of people across the country and even overseas. The allegation comes from court documents that state the owner of that escrow company used more than $10 million from parents hoping to have a baby, to fund her lavish lifestyle.
CINDY BI: “Come in?”
DAN NOYES: “Yeah, yeah.”
Cindy Bi invited us into her room at Kaiser Santa Rosa to see her husband and their daughter, Mira, born just this past Monday using a surrogate who happens to be a nurse at the hospital. They call little “Mira” their “miracle.”