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Jail Sentences Handed Down In International Baby Trafficking Ring

The sentences were just handed down:

A San Diego women was sentenced Friday, along with a co-defendant, for her role in what prosecutors called an international baby-selling ring.

San Diego attorney Theresa Erickson, 44, was sentenced to 14 months — five to be served in prison and nine to be served in home confinement.

Co-defendant Carla Chambers, a Las Vegas nurse who ran into legal trouble in New Zealand a dozen years ago for another surrogacy scheme, got 12 months — five to be served in prison and seven to be served in home confinement.

Hilary Neiman, a Maryland lawyer, sentenced in December to one year in custody — five months in prison and the balance under home confinement.

Erickson pleaded guilty along with the two other women to orchestrating a process by which women from around the country would become impregnated in the Ukraine, then when the pregnancies were well along the trio sought out potential parents for the unborn babies.

Those parents were told the babies were the product of legal surrogacy arrangements that had gone awry when a previous set of parents had backed out. The new parents were told they could step in for a fee of $100,000 or more.

In fact, no parents had ever been lined up to take home the babies Erickson and her accomplices were producing.

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