Dog seized from Gammy’s parents

PM Tony Abbott there's not a lot he can do in regards to baby Gammy as surrogacy is a matter for the states and also Thailand. Courtesy Channel Nine/The TODAY Show

WHEN you thought it couldn't get any worse, the biological parents of baby Gammy are in hot water again — this time over claims they have neglected their dog.

RSPCA officers went to the South Bunbury home owned by the couple, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

News Corp Australia understands the RSPCA has been contacted by a concerned community member who feared the couple's pet dog had not been fed for up to three days and could be starving.

The couple have not been seen at their home since Monday but the dog has been left on the property and was seen periodically barking from the side gate.

RSPCA officers have now taken the dog away from the house.

The distressed dog ... taken away by the RSPCA today. Source: News Corp Australia

Department for Child Protection and Family Support officers have now visited the couple's deserted home, south of Perth, twice in an attempt to interview them.

The couple, from Bunbury in Western Australia, returned to Australia with Gammy's healthy twin sister but left Gammy in the care of his 21-year-old surrogate mother.

It has since emerged that the biological father of the babies is a convicted child sex offender.

The scandal has prompted the WA Department for Child Protection and Family Support to launch an investigation into the safety and wellbeing of the sister after court documents showed the father had been jailed for abusing three girls in the late 1990s.

A department spokesman said on Wednesday that officers visited the house on Tuesday night but no one came to the door.

Just after 10am this morning they made their second unsuccessful visit to the South Bunbury home in less than 24 hours.

A department spokesman said attempts to contact the couple through family and friends, their lawyer and by mobile phone had also proven futile.

"Absolutely, we're trying every means available to get in touch with them," a DCP spokesman said.

If attempts to contact the couple continue to fail, WA Police will be called in to help track them down, the spokesman said.

But just when that would happen is unclear because calling in the police is assessed on a "case by case basis".

"That is an avenue we will go down if we have to," he said.

SURROGACY WAR: Thai mother wants twin sister back

Thai surrogate ... Pattaramon Chanbua, 21, poses with Gammy at a hospital in the Chonburi province, south-eastern Thailand. Picture: AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong Source: AP

The Australian man and his Chinese wife, who cannot be named for legal reasons, yesterday broke their silence to deny claims by the surrogate mother that they took the healthy baby girl to Australia but abandoned her brother Gammy — who suffers Down syndrome and reportedly had heart problems — in Thailand.

There has been no sight of the couple since they spoke briefly to media at their home on Monday.

The Thai surrogate, Pattharamon Janbua, has accused the Bunbury couple of asking her to abort Gammy when his health problems were discovered.

She said she was shocked at revelations the twins' biological father had been jailed for sex offences.

Ms Janbua, 21, has also said she wants her healthy daughter back.

The Australian couple, speaking via a statement issued by a family friend to a local newspaper, said Ms Janbua's claims were "lies".

They said they were told by doctors that Gammy would not live long and that they could not take him back to Australia.

The Bunbury man, who has three grown children, was sentenced to three years behind bars in 1997 for multiple offences of indecent dealing with two girls under 10.

He was charged with a further six offences of indecently dealing with a child under 13.

The District Court convicted him of four of the offences and he was sentenced to a further 18 months behind bars.

Gammy gets better ... Thai surrogate mother Pattaramon Chanbua holds him at the Samitivej hospital. Picture: Nicolas Asfouri Source: AFP

Meanwhile, Thai medical authorities are pursuing legal action against Mr Janbua because surrogacy is illegal in Thailand.

Authorities there said they were also cracking down on medical facilities that are linked to commercial surrogacy, in a move that has sent shock waves to Australia where many couples have already done surrogacy deals with Thai women.

This comes as the Bangkok clinic suspected to be involved in the twins' surrogacy fiasco has been raided, according to The Nation .

Thai authorities raided the premises on Phetchaburi Road in Bangkok after being tipped off that the clinic, which ran for five years but has now closed down, may have arranged the service of the surrogate mother last year.

Dr Boonruang Triruangworawat, who led the raid, told the Thai news outlet that the unnamed clinic violated two key conditions because the Thai surrogate mother was not related to the Australian couple and she was paid to carry the couple's embryo.

Dr Triruangworawat, the head of the Department of Health Service Support, said those involved faced penalties of up to a year in jail and/or a fine of up to Bt20,000 if found guilty.

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