Thirteen women from the Philippines have been sentenced to four years in prison in Cambodia for acting as surrogate mothers for foreign clients. Commercial surrogacy is illegal in Cambodia, where it falls under a human trafficking law.

The Philippine government is in talks with the Cambodian government to bring home not just the 13 Filipino women convicted of trafficking, but the babies they are carrying as well, with at least one of the women already having given birth in jail.

Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia for intending to sell babies they carried through surrogacy. They were sentenced to four years in prison, but with two years suspended,

A Cambodian provincial court has handed down four-year jail terms for 13 Filipinas convicted of human trafficking and running an illegal surrogacy ring while police and immigration have begun deporting hundreds of Chinese suspected of running scam compounds.