Prosecutors charged Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan after a raid on their Arcadia home.

A criminal complaint is the accusation the district attorney filed. It is not a conviction. NBC News reported Hochman described the home as a house of horrors and listed conspiracy, child-abuse, accessory, and witness counts. The Los Angeles Times, writing earlier Tuesday, said the couple was arrested on suspicion and spelled the names differently. A spelling in one newsroom and a charge list in another are both still pretrial.

NBC News, ABC7, and the Los Angeles Times reported that on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, authorities arrested Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan at a mansion in Arcadia, California, in a case built around 21 children, most of them born through surrogates. The Los Angeles Times, in a story time-stamped Tuesday morning, said Los Angeles County sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida confirmed both were arrested, identified Xuan as 65 and Zhang as 38, and spelled the names Guojon Xuan and Sylvia Zhang. NBC News and ABC News used Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang. ABC7 used Gunjun Xuan. The Times said the morning status was an arrest on suspicion of conspiracy to commit child abuse and witness intimidation. NBC News, reporting the district attorney's news conference, said the couple has been charged. A morning booking and an afternoon complaint can both be true. The complaint is the accusation. It is not a conviction.

NBC News reported District Attorney Nathan Hochman said Zhang and Xuan are charged with conspiracy to commit child abuse and witness intimidation. It reported Xuan also faces one felony count of child abuse, one felony count of accessory after the fact, and five felony counts of dissuading a witness, and that Zhang also faces one count of accessory after the fact and four counts of dissuading a witness. ABC7 reported the complaint lists 10 counts and 55 overt acts of conspiracy to commit child abuse. ABC News reported Hochman is seeking $100 million bail and that the couple was expected to be arraigned later Tuesday at the Pasadena courthouse. A bail request is what prosecutors asked for. It is not an order until a judge signs one. Crime Talk Network is not naming any of the children.

Hochman, as NBC News reported him, called the house "a house of horrors" and said the investigation began after a 2-month-old was brought to a hospital with a head injury. He alleged a nanny struck the baby in the head on May 4, 2025, that Zhang and Xuan did not seek medical care for days, and that the baby has since recovered. He alleged the couple ran a surrogacy operation, lied to women about why they wanted children and how many they already had, paid one surrogate as much as $75,000 and another $135,000, and failed to tell a woman who was seven months pregnant that they already had 16 children. He alleged the children were beaten daily while the couple watched on 32 motion-activated cameras, including an incident in which he said Xuan told a nanny to strike a child harder. Those sentences are the district attorney's account of a complaint. They are not testimony a jury has accepted. ABC News reported 15 children were removed from the home last year and six more were found elsewhere, with ages from 2 months to 13 and most between 1 and 3. It reported Arcadia police had arrested the couple in May 2025 and released them without charges while the investigation continued, and that a warrant is outstanding for nanny Chunmei Li, who has not been arrested. Sheriff Robert Luna called the abuse horrific. An old release without charges is history. Tuesday's complaint is the case that is now in court. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.