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. (…)
Initially, Newton and Truong claimed they were being targeted because of their sexual orientation.
