A Southern California couple were arrested and charged on Tuesday with crimes related to the abuse of 15 of their children, nearly all of whom were born to surrogate mothers, prosecutors said.
检察官表示，南加州一对夫妇周二被捕并遭到起诉，罪名涉及虐待他们的15名子女。这对夫妇的孩子几乎全部来自代孕。
The couple, Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Shasha Zhang, 39, of Arcadia, Calif., were living in a 10,287-square-foot mansion in the Los Angeles suburb where they employed multiple nannies to supervise and physically discipline their many children, some of whom were as young as 2 months old at the time, according to the felony complaint.
根据重罪起诉书，这对夫妇是66岁的宣国军和39岁的张莎莎（音），住在洛杉矶郊区亚凯迪亚市一栋面积为10287平方英尺（约956平方米）的豪宅中。他们雇了多名保姆，负责照看他们众多的孩子，并对孩子实施体罚。案发时，有些孩子只有两个月大。
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office accused Mr. Xuan and Ms. Zhang of directing the physical punishment and laughing at times while watching it happen.
洛杉矶县地方检察官办公室指控，宣国军和张莎莎指使保姆体罚孩子，有时还在一旁观看时发笑。
Nannies used shoes and wooden sticks to strike toddlers, according to prosecutors. In at least one instance, prosecutors said, Mr. Xuan participated in the physical abuse by lifting a child into the air with one arm and repeatedly delivering blows to the child’s head.
检察官称，保姆用鞋子和木棍殴打幼儿。检方表示，至少有一次，宣国军亲自参与了虐待行为，他用一只手将一名孩子提起来，并反复击打孩子的头部。
“This house could only be described as a house of horrors,” Nathan Hochman, the Los Angeles County district attorney, said in a news conference on Tuesday. “The discipline was nothing short of physical abuse, beatings and punishment on a daily basis.”
“这栋房子只能用恐怖屋来形容，”洛杉矶县地方检察官内森·霍克曼周二在新闻发布会上说。“所谓的管教完全就是身体虐待，孩子们每天都遭到殴打和惩罚。”
On Tuesday, Mr. Xuan and Ms. Zhang appeared in a courthouse in Pasadena, Calif., and were arraigned on felony charges of conspiracy to commit child abuse. Mr. Xuan also faces one felony count of child abuse.
周二，宣国军和张莎莎在加州帕萨迪纳的一家法院就共谋实施儿童虐待的重罪指控出庭接受提讯。宣国军还面临一项虐待儿童的重罪指控。
If convicted on all charges, Mr. Xuan faces up to 17 years in prison, and Ms. Zhang faces up to 11 years and 8 months.
如果所有罪名成立，宣国军最高可被判处17年监禁，张莎莎最高可被判处11年零8个月监禁。
The couple, who have 27 children in total, made their fortune in commercial real estate, The New Yorker has reported. Investigators last year found a spreadsheet maintained by Ms. Zhang with the names of 21 children, and since then, the couple has had another six children via surrogates, according to the magazine. Most of the children were taken into state custody last year and remain in foster care.
据《纽约客》报道，这对夫妇靠商业地产发家，共有27个孩子。调查人员去年发现了一份由张薇薇保存的电子表格，上面有21个孩子的名字。据该杂志报道，此后这对夫妇又通过代孕生了六个孩子。大多数孩子去年已被州政府接管，目前仍由寄养家庭照顾。
Mitchell Krems, a lawyer for Mr. Xuan, told reporters on Tuesday that his client had never abused any children. He said that Mr. Xuan had moved to the United States for the freedom to have a large family and that he and Ms. Zhang were being profiled unjustly.
宣国军的律师米切尔·克雷姆斯周二对记者表示，他的当事人从未虐待过任何子女。他说，宣国军移居美国是为了享有组建大家庭的自由，而他和张莎莎正遭到不公正的针对。
If “they weren’t Chinese, they wouldn’t experience this level of scrutiny,” Mr. Krems said. “He is being unfairly scrutinized because he has so many children. There’s no law against having all these children.”
“如果他们不是中国人，就不会受到如此程度的审查，”克雷姆斯说。“他因为孩子多而受到不公平的审查。拥有这么多孩子并不违法。”
Most of the actions alleged by prosecutors were captured by the couple’s extensive security system, which consisted of about 32 motion-activated cameras that recorded video and audio throughout the home, according to the complaint.
根据起诉书，检察官指控的大多数行为都被这对夫妇家中遍布各处的监控系统拍了下来。该系统包括约32个动作感应摄像头，记录整栋房子的视频和音频。
The children spent multiple hours a day in makeshift classrooms in the home, prosecutors said. Multiple nannies, who were not charged, were also recorded carrying children into a room that did not have a camera, but from which children could be heard screaming once inside, the complaint said.
检察官称，孩子们每天有好几个小时待在家中临时设置的教室里。起诉书称，监控录像还拍到多名保姆将孩子带进一个没有安装摄像头的房间，但孩子们一进去，就能听到里面传出尖叫声。这些保姆并未受到起诉。
Criminal scrutiny of Mr. Xuan and Ms. Zhang began in May 2025, when staff members at a Los Angeles children’s hospital notified the police that a 2-month-old boy had been brought in with a serious head injury that appeared to be inconsistent with Ms. Zhang’s explanation that he had fallen off the bed.
针对宣国军和张莎莎的刑事调查始于2025年5月。当时，洛杉矶一家儿童医院的工作人员报警称，一名两个月大的男婴因严重头部受伤被送医，而伤情似乎与张莎莎所称孩子从床上摔下来的说法不符。
After a police investigation, one of the couple’s nannies, Chunmei Li, was charged with child abuse that was likely to cause death related to the baby’s injuries. She fled to China, prosecutors said on Tuesday, and there is an outstanding warrant for her arrest.
警方调查后，这对夫妇的一名保姆李春梅（音）因涉嫌虐待该男婴、实施可能致死的行为而受到起诉。检察官周二表示，李春梅已逃往中国，针对她的逮捕令仍然有效。
The couple were arrested on suspicion of child endangerment last year but were not charged by prosecutors and were released after a few days in jail.
这对夫妇去年曾因涉嫌危害儿童安全被捕，但检察官当时没有提出起诉，两人在监狱被关押数日后获释。
On Tuesday, Mr. Xuan and Ms. Zhang were each charged with being an accessory after the fact in connection with what prosecutors say were their attempts to help Ms. Li evade arrest.
周二，宣国军和张莎莎还分别受到一项事后从犯罪指控。检察官称，两人曾试图帮助李春梅逃避逮捕。
Mr. Xuan and Ms. Zhang were also charged on Tuesday with multiple counts of dissuading a witness. Prosecutors said the couple had instructed the children not to disclose to investigators that they had been beaten and to deny that they had been coached on how to answer questions. On Tuesday, Judge Kerry White of Los Angeles County Superior Court set bail for each of them at $20 million. Mr. Xuan’s lawyer argued that the couple were not a flight risk, given that he recently had a bone-marrow transplant. He has leukemia, he said, and appeared in court in a wheelchair.
宣国军和张莎莎周二还受到多项妨碍证人作证的指控。检察官称，这对夫妇曾告诉孩子们不要向调查人员透露自己遭到殴打的事实，还要求他们否认曾有人教他们如何回答问题。周二，洛杉矶县高等法院法官克里·怀特将两人的保释金分别定为2000万美元。宣国军的律师辩称，这对夫妇不存在潜逃风险，因为宣国军最近刚接受了骨髓移植。他说，宣国军患有白血病。宣国军当天坐着轮椅出庭。
MacKenzie Teymouri, the deputy district attorney, said in court that detectives were actively searching the couple’s residence. They had so far found antique sculptures, millions of dollars worth of alcohol, cash, and bank statements for 200 banks accounts and 70 corporate accounts. They also found multiple real and fake passports.
副地方检察官麦肯齐·泰穆里在法庭上表示，警探正在全力搜查这对夫妇的住所。到目前为止，他们发现了古董雕塑、价值数百万美元的酒类、现金，以及涉及200个银行账户和70个公司账户的银行对账单。他们还发现了多本真实和伪造的护照。
Judge White also ordered that the couple surrender all of their passports, submit to home detention and electronic monitoring and have no contact with any surrogacy agencies. He also ordered no contact with most of the children.
怀特法官还下令，这对夫妇必须交出所有护照，接受居家监禁和电子监控，不得与任何代孕机构接触。法官还禁止他们与大多数孩子接触。
In 2021, shortly after Mr. Xuan and Ms. Zhang moved into the Arcadia house, they established a company called Mark Surrogacy Investment LLC, according to the complaint. Through the company, the couple reached out to prospective surrogates across the United States. They often provided false information to the women, claiming, for example, that Ms. Zhang was a single mother who was struggling to conceive.
根据起诉书，2021年，宣国军和张莎莎搬进亚凯迪亚的豪宅后不久，便成立了一家名为马克代孕投资有限责任公司的企业。通过这家公司，两人联系了美国各地有意担任代孕母亲的女性。他们经常向这些女性提供虚假信息，例如声称张莎莎是一名难以受孕的单身母亲。
At least 14 of the children who were living in the residence at the time the police came in May 2025 were born to surrogate mothers, prosecutors said. The children ranged in age from 2 months to around 5 years old, Mr. Hochman said.
检察官称，2025年5月警方进入这栋住宅时，住在里面的孩子至少有14个是由代孕母亲所生。霍克曼说，这些孩子的年龄从两个月到五岁左右不等。
Rijon Charne, a lawyer who represents some of the surrogates recruited by Ms. Zhang and Mr. Xuan, said she was glad to see charges brought against the couple.
律师里琼·查恩代理部分张莎莎和宣国军招募的代孕母亲，她表示，很高兴看到这对夫妇受到起诉。
“Anyone who abuses a child should be prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent of the law,” she said in an email.
“任何虐待儿童的人都应该受到起诉，并依法受到最严厉的惩罚，”她在一封电子邮件中说。
