The Philippine government is in talks with the Cambodian government to bring home not just the 13 Filipino women convicted of trafficking, but the babies they are carrying as well, with at least one of the women already having given birth in jail.

Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia for intending to sell babies they carried through surrogacy. They were sentenced to four years in prison, but with two years suspended,

Thirteen women from the Philippines have been sentenced to four years in prison in Cambodia for acting as surrogate mothers for foreign clients. Commercial surrogacy is illegal in Cambodia, where it falls under a human trafficking law.

The 13 pregnant Filipino women who were sentenced to four years in jail in Cambodia for illegally acting as surrogate mothers were in “good condition,” an ambassador said Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Thirteen Filipino women were meted a four-year sentence, eventually reduced to two, in Cambodia for violating the surrogacy ban in the country, according to the Philippine Embassy in Phnom Penh.