New revelations have emerged in the story of six-month-old baby Gammy, who was reportedly abandoned by his Australian biological parents when they found out he had Down’s Syndrome.
As Mamamia reported last week, the Australian couple allegedly entered into a surrogacy agreement with a young Thai woman in 2013 — but when the two babies were born, the couple returned to Australia with only Gammy’s sister.
The 21-year-old surrogate mother Pattharamon Janbua has been left to care for the boy, who suffers from a congenital heart condition.
The story made international headlines at the weekend — and now, a number of new developments in the distressing story have emerged.
1. Gammy’s parents said they were ‘too old to care for twins’.
Ms Janbua has spoken to Fairfax Media, claiming that Gammy’s father visited the abandoned baby in hospital after his birth but only interacted with his healthy twin sister.
Ms Janbua also said the Australian parents refused to take him because they were ‘too old’ to care for twins, Fairfax reports.
She said the father, who is in his 50s, “came to the hospital to take care of the girl but never looked Gammy in the face or carried him”.
“He did not buy milk for Gammy. He only bought milk for the girl,” she claimed.
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Such a bloody mess and poor Gammy the innocent victim in all of this.
I don't understand how the parents could say they are too old to care for twins when they clearly agreed to have at least two eggs implanted. Fraternal twins are conceived from two eggs... the only other (very remote) explanation could be that they only had one egg implanted and that the surrogate conceived Gammy at the same time, which is possible, but unlikely...
Very unlikely given that Gammy appears to have fair skin and blonde hair... Your thoughts mirrored mine exactly, why on earth did they have two eggs implanted then? Sounds like a very poor excuse to me.
I actually began wondering if it was a remote possibility because Gammy's features also look Asian, and then I read (after posting above) that his biological mother is also of Asian origin (so it looks like the blonde hair and pale complexion probably come from the father's side).
I just saw the Mamamia update that the biological father is a convicted pedophile. God, this story just gets more and more tragic... If this is true, I hope his sister is swiftly removed from the care of this couple and both are placed with a loving family.