0:00 [Music] Uhoh. Arcadia got in trouble. Oh no. >> Is this the kid one? >> Yep. You guys have all seen this. Well, let me just play this uh short report factory >> cuz seeing the visual of it is way better. I >> actually haven't seen the visual. >> All right. >> 21 children. >> All the details. A >> house that looks like a castle, but it's under investigation for being a possible factory. A baby factory. Arcadia police stumbled upon this house on Camino Rial Avenue while investigating a child abuse case. A two-month-old suffering a traumatic head injury. >> We discovered uh numerous children, 15 children to be specific, um ranging in ages from 2 months old to 13 years old. Many of the children were birthed through surrogacy. Um and then the male
0:51 and female at the residence took legal guardianship of those kids. Six other kids, investigators say, have been moved to other homes. All 21 of the kids confirmed to be the children of this couple, 65-year-old Guajan Shen and 38-year-old Sylvia Zang. They were arrested for felony child endangerment, but later released. Police have also issued an arrest warrant for their nanny, 56-year-old Chun May Lee. Investigators say after looking at the surveillance video, she is the main suspect in the child abuse case and is still on the loose. >> The discipline both verbally and physically the baby was uh severe >> to the point where again it it supported uh the beliefs that child abuse was occurring inside the home. >> Sources tell us of the 21 children 17 or
1:41 3 years old or younger. >> So where did all these kids come from? That is what the FBI is trying to figure out. Arcadia's investigation though determined that the children are the product of a surrogacy operation owned, you guessed it, by Zang and Shen. >> It's a house that looks like a >> real So the so the initial crime that got the attention on the house was that that baby that like got a head injury, right? So when they come in there, they find all these kids and they realize that that Chinese couple or whatever is like running this surrogacy thing where all these people all over the world are like basically uh getting uh pregnant and that those babies that get born go to that house. What they're going to do with those kids is not clear yet. >> And the DNA of those kids are from those two >> uh >> was it from the that guy and that lady?
2:32 >> Yeah, I believe it said it's all linked to the guy. >> Yeah, I believe it is. I believe and and the the the lady was able to produce birth certificates for all of those kids that they were actually >> hurt. >> Yeah. I wonder what the what the hustle is because >> it's expensive for them to get a surrogate. >> It's like 100k or something. >> Yeah. >> So >> they could sell the babies, sell the kids. >> The Yeah, but is it worth 100K for a baby? I feel like it's that's a lot. The crazy thing is that they're not. So the the people who are like carrying the the um the kid think that it's for like some other couple that's having problems like having they don't know they're making these kids for the owners of that company. >> Wow. >> So the owners are are purposely making kids. >> That's crazy. but they don't know why there's no >> why. They don't know why they're or or
3:22 if they've been doing this forever and they've just been like selling kids. >> Or if they're legally theirs, maybe they could collect on um like welfare or whatever. >> It's definitely some kind of crazy ass scam, but that's like >> to have one nanny for that many kids is crazy, >> dude. That nanny probably lost it. >> Oh, for sure. She just went mentally like, you know, after like your third, fifth kid of crying. And >> well, how many? They said 15 kids. >> Well, there's 21 total. >> 21. >> And they said 17 are three and under. Just 17 of them. >> So, they're like all like really little kids and they're like, "Oh, that must be a fun place." >> Fun. >> Well, if you're one of the kids, really n >> I mean, like >> every day you're like, "Yay!" >> Yeah, I see what Joe's talking about. He's like, "Yay, 17 brothers." I don't
4:14 know. >> Yeah. So, the So, the agency But it's a huge house. The agency is called Mark Surrogacy. And uh >> that's Yeah, it's just called Mark. It's like when Asian people try to think of the most American sounding thing. >> Mark cowboy surrogacy. >> What the hell? >> Chinese people make the best criminals though cuz when you see them, you don't they're not unsuspecting. >> I mean, that guy looks pretty stupid. >> Yeah, that's what a lot of people were saying. They just look like someone that would play like have their legs crossed at the park reading a newspaper and you don't know they're running some sort of ████ child ring and ████ >> right? The grandma look like she just does this every morning. >> Dude, I probably passed by that house. I'm going to look for it now. >> Yeah, it looks like looks like a castle. >> And in Arcadia, that's not that much space. Like I I'm going to go find it. >> There's so much shady ████ happening in SGV. >> There is a ton of stuff. Yeah, it's crazy. >> What's up with the Chinese people like that? Like what? I don't get why the
5:04 Chinese >> Ask this. Why are Chinese like that? >> Like shady? >> Like shady? Yeah. >> I think Chinese people get their jollies off by finding loopholes. >> Okay, fair enough. It makes them happy. >> So if they could find a loophole and if that loophole makes money, they're going to keep trying to ride the loop. >> Ride loophole. >> That's why you're so good at loopholes. >> I'm not good at loopholes. >> Hey. Hey. He does it the right way. >> I try to. >> You're good at legal loopholes. >> Am I? I don't think so. He served. I know there's a I I read something earlier of like one of the um the the uh what do you call it? The freaking person that's carrying the >> the surrogate. >> The sur Oh, that's the surrogate. Okay. Sorry. The surrogate uh when the baby was born, she thought like, "Oh, it's going to go to that nice couple or whatever that like was the I guess who Mark Sergy said like it's some white
5:55 couple in California or some s███." Mhm. >> And then like I guess like she looked uh she like looked at the record and then was surprised to see that the kid had been filed under like foster care. >> Oh. >> So she was like, "What the f███?" Like I thought this was going to be an adopted like somebody's kid, but instead it ended up in foster care. >> She thought the kid was already pre-ordered. >> Exactly. Yeah. >> She's like, "I don't want a return kid, >> but then it ends up at GameStop." >> I thought I was a pre-ordered kid. >> I wanted a fresh new one from the factory. Yeah. Not a used car. It's pretty crazy. >> That's ████ crazy, man. >> Dude, if I was a surrogate, I would try and go get the baby back. >> Like, if I knew, that's where it ended up. >> That's what one of attachment to it, too. >> Yeah. This one mother uh or one of the surrogates, her name's Kayla. She She started a GoFundMe for legal fees so she
6:45 could try to get custody of that same child. >> Cuz you feel responsible, too, cuz you brought it into the world and then you sent it off there and then you would feel guilty. >> And who knows if you just like made a slave for some Yeah. Oh my god. >> Yeah, but what do you think the slave like what do you think the job would have been? >> Yeah. What if it was like >> stuff? >> Their life is better than yours? Cuz you know some rich dogs, they eat better than ████ poor people, dude. >> That's true. >> They get like a ribeye steak and some peas and ████ And I'm like, >> how are these guys on Instagram like this dog got a whole ass mackerel and a ████ prime rib and I'm out here like eating chili beans out of a can. And I'm like, that's not fair. Is that what you make them eat? Chili beans out of the can >> with like b onions and like we should >> somehow I don't think that's happening for these kids. >> They live in a castle. I never lived in
7:35 a castle. >> Yeah, but what's inside that castle? >> Probably like 20 rooms. >> Have you ever seen like hoarder houses and stuff like that? >> Hello. Red envelopes probably. >> Or horror. >> Hoarder. Hoarder. >> Oh, hoarder. Oh, okay. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Not horror. >> I was picturing like a big kindergarten looking house. Like you have letters on the wall. You have a freaking stuffed giraffe. You got like a playground in the back. >> That sounds fun. >> I don't think these people take care of those kids. >> Yeah. >> Nah, dude. >> But I mean, like, okay. Well, like, you know, in the dog world, right? You have people that breed champion, you know, and then like they make a great freerange environment, but you also have the puppy mills, right? And I like to just imagine that they're in Arcadia and this is like >> pasture raised. >> It's not like a Yeah. It's like freerange children, you know, like good
8:26 environment, you know, they're I they're it's a baby factory, but it's a it's a it's a it's very it's very, you know, organic grain-free kind of situation >> cuz they could have been in Elmani. They chose our cage. >> That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. But they could have been a bad neighborhood in like really small house >> in Balden Park. >> Yeah. >> Joe, free range mean they're still in a cage. free range and >> pasteurized. I mean, they're out of >> They're pastured. They're pasture-raised. Grass-fed >> unfinished. >> Yeah. >> What do you think they really going to what they were going to do with 21 kids? >> Start clothes making them >> see what I don't get from making them fold clothes at 3 years. >> How is that profitable? >> Labor zero. >> Sweat shop. >> It's a sweat shop. >> So, like the surrogacy is expensive, right? So, I'm wondering what what can they do that makes it viable to spend
9:17 like 50 to 100, >> right? Cuz then you have to calculate their overhead. If they're paying these women that much to carry the kid, what are they what's the other side? How are they fencing it? >> I don't I don't know the economics of this, but if I were to go really dark, >> what if they're like organ farming? >> Dude, I was just thinking of that. >> Oh my god. >> I was literally just cuz you know they made that legal in China. >> Hey, I wouldn't I wouldn't put it past them. That's >> it's legal in China. >> What's legal? >> But then it takes a long time. >> Maybe organs are legal. >> Organ market, bro. >> But it takes a long time to grow the organ on a ch on a from a baby. >> Yeah. I don't know. >> So like even even >> maybe it's is stem cell harvesting. >> I don't know. Like like the placenta. >> But you know when you have like when you need to do a fundraiser, if you buy a whole pizza from Costco and you sell it by the slice, then the slice makes more money than the whole pizza. >> Oh my god.
10:07 >> Yeah. But then you don't have to grow the pizza. >> No, you don't have to grow pizza. >> You see, that's the >> I think economically it doesn't make any sense even though it's gross. >> I think like when like so many people are like it's human trafficking, it's human trafficking, but like okay, I get that, but like in what way? >> Keeping the kid makes more money than selling the kid. >> I don't believe it's just like let me just sell this kid because how is that worth? >> Yeah, you would just take one. >> That would have to be like double what they're paying someone to have the kid. >> Exactly. >> People can adopt for cheaper. I feel like they had a >> They could go to a no kill shelter. >> Yeah, exactly. I think they I think they have a way more nefarious. >> It has to be an organ. >> That's like a lifetime's worth of profit. I doubt it would just be a one cell thing >> cuz I do. Okay. Cuz they have to take care like the labor it takes to take care of all those kids. Like >> it makes way more sense to if you want
10:57 slaves, right? It makes more sense to adopt a bunch of 12y olds. >> Yeah. Exactly. >> That you can have clean, cook, whatever. Yeah. >> And then you can also collect um >> kidnap them. >> You can collect unemployment. I mean welfare. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. You could collect welfare if they're like cuz you have the paperwork for it. >> Collecting welfare in Arcadia in the castle. >> Well, yeah. You would be surprised how many rich people actually collect welfare cuz it's based on like let's say if you don't work, right, and you're like I'm I'm going through hard times. I have 15 kids. >> Yeah. >> It's B you get paid per kid. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And there's actually a lot of rich people that use that >> I didn't know that >> racket and they live in mansions. >> Yeah. >> I'm sure that like that's probably one of the benefits of their >> if they keep them. But if they're >> like I don't know >> cuz they don't even have to really be
11:48 there. They have the the paperwork, right? >> Yeah. >> In order to like file it. But the crazy thing is I just don't believe that if you go through that much trouble to like scam create a baby, I doubt you're going to let that baby go. like it's probably gonna it's probably gonna grow up in that crime racket its whole life >> because okay what if they're middleman so for example >> what if it's not his ████ but it's a service >> like a baby service right designer baby service from like I don't know Chinese billionaires or something they're like do you want half white half >> Chinese kids or whatever and then they're like okay so they find the surrogates they do the process the baby comes out, they have it ready for pick. >> So, they're like a bespoke baby making company, >> maybe. And then the when they're ready to come, they go, "Okay, I'm ready for
12:38 my baby." And the babies >> When the heck The thing is, like if they have 21 of these kids around at at such like at these ages, when is the pickup? >> Yeah. That's too much. >> What if they didn't want it? Like the baby comes out and it's not as they wanted. >> Yeah. They're like, "Make another one." >> They return the baby. >> Yeah. Like what if they're just looking and they're like, "Actually, I want." >> So 21's just the bad merch. >> Could be. Those are Amazon return house. >> There's a sale. >> Yeah, >> that's crazy, dude. >> What do What do you think these people should get as their sentence? >> Life. >> Well, we don't know. >> I say death. >> We don't actually know what the >> Yeah, we don't know what the crime is. >> It looks sketch so far, but it's not looking good. >> Like, what if they genuinely just wanted that many kids? >> Yeah, exactly. >> Wo. If that's the case, another octim and she had like specifically got pregnant with like eight kids cuz >> who? >> They wanted to be Chinese YouTubers, >> dude. Or what if they're just old and
13:28 they just like let's just do this one last time for us. Make sure we have a cute family >> one last time 21 times. >> They are old. >> They have they created a company. What was it called? Mark something. >> Mark Surrogacy. >> So they made a like a basically like a scam surrogacy company where they're tricking all these uh surrogates into >> I mean it could just be Yeah. Like you said >> they wanted a lot and that was their goal. >> Yeah. Maybe there's like an add then why would they have to lie about who they are and where the baby's going to go? They can just have regular surrogacy. >> Maybe they would say no. >> And if the kids were that important to them, >> why would they have one nanny shake the hell out of one baby? Like that seems like really bad care for something you care about >> cuz they can't afford it. So they just found one nanny. >> They could afford to pay people to have the babies but not afford it.
14:18 >> They could afford that castle, too. >> Well, you know, financially they probably ran out of budget. Yeah, we need to know more to this story. I think it just came out, but I think we'll find out. >> I'm sure they're like a cog in the whole like machinery, and I doubt they're like the masters of whatever this racket is. I'm sure it's a Rico case for sure. Or those cops didn't look under the house.
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