Maternal Dispatches with Hollie McKay

Maternal Dispatches with Hollie McKay

How the Law Allows a Convicted Child Sex Offender To Father a Surrogate Baby: And Have Ordinary Citizens Pay for it

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Hollie McKay
May 19, 2026
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A convicted child sex offender is now a legal father. He is not in prison. He is not hiding. He raised money on GoFundMe, found a surrogate through a family friend, and in 2024 walked out of the system holding a baby boy — and the law, in Pennsylvania and in most of the country, lets him.

That is not a bug. It is the architecture.

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