If this was a baseball game, the box score would show a shutout. In the last week, the Los Angeles Times has run 3 investigative reports (including today’s story) into the criminal scandals perpetrated by SurroGenesis and B Coming on vulnerable infertility patients. For good measure, the New York Times also ran an exposé last week. Yet three weeks have passed and the FBI, the police and the District Attorneys in Modesto, Los Angeles and Grapevine Texas have nothing to show for themselves.

How is it possible that a single reporter, Kimi Yoshino, could find the time to investigate a national infertility scandal and publish three articles in eight days, yet law enforcement cannot find the time to even execute a search warrant? Seriously, Ms. Yoshino could expose the criminal enterprise without any of the tools available to law enforcement, yet the FBI cannot be found and Tonya Collins continues to enjoy her life in Texas while more than a 100 victims have had their lives shattered.

Is it that “only” $3,500,000 may have been stolen and thus this matter is not a priority with law enforcement? After all, there are glaucoma victims throughout the state who are using medicinal marijuana which clearly merits more attention from law enforcement than infertility patients who may have lost their last, best chance to have a baby. A week after the SurroGenesis scandal broke, an arrest warrant was issued out of Beverly Hills for the apprehension of Lindsay Lohan! Clearly, if these priorities are indicative, Lindsay Lohan is a greater risk to society then Tonya Collins and Rosa Balcazar.

Apparently law enforcement is viewing this as a white collar crime which reflects their utter ignorance into the real underlying offense. What makes this case so tragic is that the consequences of the original theft continues unabated today and will for months if not years to come. Yes, patients had their trust funds stolen. However, the FBI needs to understand that those funds were earmarked for future expenses which are now coming due and there is no one there to step into the breech. So what if pregnant surrogates end up losing their insurance and face mounting medical bills they cannot pay? I guess the FBI just figures the surrogates can file bankruptcy and have those bills discharged. Big deal if Intended Parents are sued by medical facilities, independent laboratories or travel agencies if they cannot cover the expenses for their surrogate cycle. And who really cares if a surrogate gets evicted because she is in a high-risk pregnancy, confined to bed and her lost wages were stolen? That’s what homeless shelters are for, right?

Perhaps we’ve approached this all wrong. Maybe someone should point out to any remaining members of the Bush Justice Department that there are hundreds of embryos (or nascent human life as they liked to refer to them) that are in limbo. That without intervention, these “lives” (at least as defined by the Georgia Senate) will be snuffed out. Heck, if any Surrogate actually proceeded with the hypothetical abortion posed by Slate’s William Saeltan, would that make Tonya Collins an accomplice to Murder? Is that enough to get law enforcement to take these investigations seriously?