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NewsMail Morning Edition Sat 02 Aug, 2014 Top Stories More Top Stories » 'Why does he have to be abandoned?': Australian parents desert Thai surrogate mother The Thai surrogate mother of a baby with Down syndrome who was abandoned by his Australian parents says she has been left to provide for the child who also suffers from a life-threatening heart condition. In an exclusive interview with the ABC's Samantha Hawley, Gammy's mother Pattaramon Chanbua described how she loves the baby boy as if he was her own, but cannot afford the medical treatment he needs. The 21-year-old impoverished mother fell pregnant with twins but the Australian parents abandoned Gammy and only took his healthy sister home with them. "Why does he have to be abandoned while the other baby has it easy? ... I feel sorry for him. I don't know what to do," she told the ABC. 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