A JUDGE’S order to have a baby girl raised by a convicted sex offender has been slammed by a child protection campaigner. In a shocking decision handed down in the Family Court of Western Australia ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Australia's leading child protection advocate has blasted the WA Family Court for risking the safety ...

Baby Gammy's twin sister Pipah will be raised by Bunbury couple David and Wendy Farnell after a judge ruled on Thursday that she not be returned to Thailand to be raised by her birth mother. Family ...

A two-year-old girl born to a surrogate mother in Thailand can stay with her family in Australia despite her father being a convicted paedophile, a court has ruled. The Family Court of Western ...

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The father of a Down’s syndrome baby at the centre of a surrogacy scandal did not abandon him in Thailand and can keep his twin sister despite being a convicted paedophile, a court ruled on Thursday.

Western Australia child protection allows couple to keep baby girl under strict conditions despite father’s conviction for child sex offences The West Australian couple who allegedly abandoned their ...

The two options before the court were for Pipah to continue living with David and Wendy Farnell in Bunbury, Western Australia, or live in Thailand with her birth mother, Pattaramon Chanbua, according ...

The Australian couple at the centre of the baby Gammy surrogacy scandal have escaped facing perjury charges for lying under oath about the genetic makeup of Gammy and his twin sister Pipah. The ...