(The New Yorker) – A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else?

When Elliott asked about the baby’s name, Silvia shared that it was Hays, and, when Elliott asked for a picture, Silvia sent her a video of the infant, bright-eyed and wiggling in a onesie patterned with hearts. Silvia mailed gifts for Elliott’s children. More than once, she floated the possibility of Elliott carrying another child for her.

For a while, Elliott considered the idea. Then, in May, she decided against it. “Someone needs to call me because something extremely weird is going on here,” Elliott texted Silvia and Mark Surrogacy one afternoon. That morning, she’d been added to a Facebook chat with a few other women who seemed to have worked with the couple. “i read through their messages,” she wrote, “and they’re literally saying sylvia owns the agency and that all these babies are being sold.” (Read More)