Australian Gay Marriage Ad

Two Gay Men Used Russian Surrogate Mother to Create Boy for Sex Abuse Ring

Via Stacy McCain, this heart worming story about how a couple of gay men in Australia decided to hire a surrogate to bear them a sex toy and income source.  They were even the subject of a nice article in the Australian media about the nice gay couple who decide to have a family.  Then the truth came out.

What could possibly go wrong? In July 2010, two men — their names given only as Mark and Peter — were the subjects of an Australian Broadcasting Company feature story with this headline:

Why two dads are better than one: Becoming parents was hard work for gay couple … but they’d do it all over again if they had to

The article by Ginger Gorman positively oozed with sympathetic admiration for Mark and Peter, whose son was conceived in 2005 with the assistance of a Russian surrogate mother. Fast-forward three years:

Australian pair in L.A. convicted for making child porn with ‘adopted son’ from Russia

He was only two weeks old the first time Newton, now 42, molested the boy that the Russian surrogate was paid $8,000 to bear for him and Truong, now 36. The Sydney Morning Herald reports:

Police believe the pair had adopted the boy ‘‘for the sole purpose of exploitation’’. The abuse began just days after his birth and over six years the couple travelled the world, offering him up for sex with at least eight men, recording the abuse and uploading the footage to an international syndicate known as the Boy Lovers Network. …
[U.S. District] Judge [Sarah Evans] Barker said the pair brainwashed the child to believe the sexual abuse was normal. Newton was also said to have trained the boy to deny any inappropriate behaviour if he was ever questioned by authorities.

At least they'll be able to get married in L.A. now, thanks to SCOTUS; assuming they can get out of jail long enough.

Now, I'm not saying that all male gay couples are potential child molesters, but I'd think that gay male couples should face a pretty high level of scrutiny before being accepted a "parental" units.   There is a reason we used to call them "perverts."