Kong Suriyamontol, center, the Thai lawyer for Japanese national Mitsutoki Shigeta, speaks to the media after his client was granted paternity rights. On Tuesday, Bangkok's Central Juvenile Court awarded Shigeta, 28, custody of 13 babies he fathered via surrogacy. Thai police display images of surrogate babies born to a Japanese man in a 2014 news conference. Thailand banned foreign surrogacy in response to the 2014 incident and another infamous case where an Australian couple abandoned a baby born to a Thai surrogate when they discovered the baby had Down syndrome. Shigeta won custody of the other four children born via surrogacy in Thailand before this week's ruling.

Source: Washington Post February 20, 2018 17:39 UTC