Their 21 Kids Were Taken By The State. Now They're Fighting For Custody Of Even More Surrogate-Born Babies.

CBS Los Angeles

January 13, 2026 / 5:30 AM PST

Tucked away inside an enormous gated mansion on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a couple was raising nearly two dozen children, most under the age of 3, when their shrouded lives were thrust into public view.

Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang drew national interest in July after authorities raided their Arcadia home and took 21 kids, mostly surrogate-born, into custody. The raid came after their 2-month-old son was rushed to the hospital with injuries that medical staff suspected were due to child abuse. His trauma was consistent with "either a traffic accident or the child being shaken and/or dropped," said Arcadia Police Captain Kollin Cieadlo, but "there was no car accident."

The unmarried couple remains at the center of a state child abuse investigation and has drawn federal scrutiny. Meanwhile, over the last six months, the couple has had at least five more surrogate-born babies in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Georgia — all of whom were also taken into state custody.

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