Human traffickers are keeping not less than 100 women on a ‘human egg farm’ in Georgia after luring them under false pretenses, it has been claimed.
Three Thai women brought home this week said they’d responded to ads on social media for surrogate mums who could be paid the equivalent of £600 a month while living with the client family abroad.
They told a press conference they were as an alternative taken to a house with 60 to 70 other Thai women who told them ‘there have been no contracts or parents’.
One said the ladies ‘could be injected to get treatment, anesthetized and their eggs could be extracted with a machine’.
‘After we got this information and it was not the identical because the commercial, we got scared, we tried to contact people back home’, she added.
It’s thought the eggs were sold on the black market, internationally, to be used in IVF treatments.
The gang allegedly confiscated the ladies’s passports and told them they’d be arrested in the event that they returned home.
The ladies said they pretended to be unwell to avoid having their eggs harvested.
One in every of the ladies, who wore face masks and hat to avoid revealing their identities, said she and around 10 Thai women were taken to Georgia via Dubai and Armenia.
She said they were led there by a Thai woman and met by two Chinese nationals in Georgia.
A fourth victim was released and returned to Thailand in September but only after paying her captors the equivalent of £1,660, in keeping with Pavena Hongsakula, the founding father of the Pavena Foundation, a Thai women and youngsters’s shelter.
Police in Georgia and Thailand said they’re investigating.
In response to the Pavena Foundation, around 100 more trafficked women remained in Georgia.
It said 257 Thai people fell victim to human traffickers in 2024, of which 53 were present in Thailand and 204 in other countries.
The muse helped rescue 152 of them.
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