Gammy ‘offered to another Aussie couple’

Baby Gammy. Picture: Patrick Brown Source: Supplied

BABY Gammy was allegedly offered to a Victorian couple in a "frenzied scramble" to offload­ the boy after it was discovered he had Down syndrome­.

It was also alleged on the ABC's 7.30 that the boy's father, David Farnell, suggested the Thai surrogacy agency he had hired just "drop baby Gammy at the temple at night" — claims Mr Farnell has denied.

The developments have been revealed eight months after Gammy was abandoned in Thailand by his West Australian parents, who took his healthy twin sister Pipah back to Australia.

Country Victorian couple Kim and Brendan Cross told 7.30 they had been offered Gammy by Thailand Surrogacy — the agency hired by both the Crosses and Farnells — after struggling to conceive over two years.

"Maybe they thought this was an easy option for us to take this child instead of continuing on our path to have our own biological child," Ms Cross said.

"But of course we can't accept someone else's child.

David and Wendy Farnell deny asking for Gammy to be aborted. Picture: Channel 9

"(We were) mortified. We could not believe that someone would go through a process like this and give birth to a beautiful baby boy.

"Regardless of whether he had down syndrome or not, he is their flesh and blood."

A former employee of Thailand Surrogacy, who wished to remain anonymous, told 7.30 when this option fell through, Mr Farnell asked for Gammy to be aborted. When that was refused, Mr Farnell allegedly suggested taking the healthy girl home and abandoning her twin brother outside a temple in Bangkok.

"He said, 'there's a normal one, can I take the normal one?'," the employee claimed Mr Farnell had said.

"'Can you leave the abnormal one at the temple, can you leave him in Bangkok? No one will know about this.'"

Thailand Surrogacy chief executive Antonio Frattaroli backed his former employee's claims in an email to 7.30.

"They beg me to drop baby Gammy at the temple at night and run away," he said.

"They told me, don't worry Antonio, the monk will take care of the baby."

Mr Frattaroli said he was not aware of Gammy being offered to another couple, but said Mr Farnell did ask for an abortion.

Mr Farnell has denied ever asking for the child to be left at a temple.

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