Thailand's 'baby factory' doctor agrees to turn himself in - police

Case involving Australian couple who abandoned their Down syndrome baby prompted a crackdown on Thailand's largely unregulated surrogacy business

Gammy, a baby born with Down's Syndrome, is fed by his surrogate mother Pattaramon Janbua at a hospital in Chonburi province. According to Pattaramon, his Australian parents, through a local surrogate agency, asked her at her seventh month of pregnancy to terminate it because of his Down's Syndrome but she refused and kept the baby. Reuters

A Thai doctor who performed in vitro fertilisation (IVF) for women involved in a surrogate baby business dubbed the "baby factory" has agreed to turn himself in, police said today.

Thailand has been gripped by a slew of surrogacy scandals following allegations this month that an Australian couple had abandoned their Down syndrome baby with his Thai surrogate mother.