She Got Rich Stealing Moms’ Dreams
By M.L. Nestel,
The Daily Beast
| 02. 23. 2015
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Hoan Nguyen dreamed of becoming a mom. But she had fertility issues, and so Nguyen began scouting for a surrogate from her Arizona home. She landed on a website called Miracles and Miracles Surrogacy. Nguyen only found out later that it was a fraudulent business run by a conniving mom.
It was May 2011 and the hopeful parent thought she found the perfect surrogate named “Amy.” A phone conversation with the Miracles Inc. owner had Nguyen acting fast because “Amy,” she was told, was “in high demand.” Nguyen sent two payments totaling $19,500 and signed some papers to make it official. But Hoan Nguyen was baited and bilked. There was no “Amy” and the money she signed off to deliver a baby someday was as good as gone.
For four years, Allison Layton, 38, took Nguyen and more than 40 other would-be moms and dads for their hard earned money to fund her lux lifestyle and finance a second wedding in Idaho. She pleaded guilty on Thursday in a federal court in Los Angeles to heartlessly snatching away...
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