“Out of love, I gave him the most beautiful gift I could ever give to anyone, but I am left with a wound that will never heal.” A surrogate mother outlined before the criminal court in Tongeren, Limburg, how she is left angry and sad now that the father of the child she gave birth to for a friendly couple is on trial for sexual abuse of the young girl. “It happened twice ‘by accident’ and ‘while playing’ in the bath,” the man himself refuted. But after the man in his forties was arrested, the ground also collapsed among the parents of some of his underage daughter’s girlfriends.

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