Tonya Collins' Vacant Modesto Home

ABC news out of Fresno had a lengthy segment on the SurroGenesis scandal last night.  You can watch the report here. Among the highlights:

One of the office locations for the company, at a Modesto retail complex, is now vacant. And no one answered at Collins’ home in this quiet Modesto neighborhood … inside … moving boxes are stacked up in the kitchen.

Neighbors were stunned to see Collins, her husband and their five children … move out so suddenly, especially since it seemed they had a thriving business.

Neighbors say at one point, Collins moved her surrogacy business into her own home … converting a garage into an office … all that’s left of that office is an empty space, and this window, blocked by a moving box. They also say Tonya Collins may have started her business based on her own experience as a surrogate. They say when Collins and her family moved into this house, she was pregnant with another couple’s child.

This last paragraph is instructive. Yesterday I blogged about agencies that conceal their addresses and encouraged prospective clients to personally visit any surrogacy agency they are considering. As I wrote yesterday, if an agency will not provide you with its physical address so that you can inspect its principal place of business and meet their staff, then it is an agency you need to avoid.