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阿卡迪亚虐待儿童指控将父母涉嫌指使保姆置于案件核心

检方称，Guojun Xuan和Silvia Zhang指使保姆虐待儿童，并通过家中摄像头观看惩罚过程。两人均否认有罪；证据必须证明他们各自所起的作用。

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  1. 第 1 次更新阿卡迪亚虐待儿童指控将父母涉嫌指使保姆置于案件核心当前位置

有什么证据能证明是父母指使虐待儿童，而不是保姆单独所为？这正是对郭军轩（Guojun Xuan）和张思维（Silvia Zhang）提起诉讼的核心问题。这对阿卡迪亚夫妇的21名子女据报已由州政府照管。

洛杉矶县检察官于2026年10月6日以共谋实施虐待儿童及相关罪名起诉这对夫妇。检方的指控并非仅仅是家中有儿童受伤，而是称父母指使住家保姆反复虐待孩子，并通过摄像头观看惩罚过程。两名被告在帕萨迪纳的提审中均作无罪答辩。指控尚未得到证实，两人均被推定无罪。1 3 9

检方指控，这对夫妇反复对家中16名儿童中的15名实施身体虐待。这与报道所说的家庭子女总数21名是不同的数字。本案将取决于有关每名被告行为的证据，而非家庭规模、代孕安排或指控本身的严重程度。1

摄像头必须证明什么

当局称，他们在住所内发现32台摄像头；ABC News早前的一篇报道说，约有32台由动作触发的摄像头。检方指控这对夫妇通过该系统观看惩罚过程。然而，摄像头的存在并不能证明任何一名被告观看过某一具体事件或下令实施该事件。2 3 5

检方的说法指出，录像拍摄于2025年4月27日至5月7日，据称显示了打屁股、扇打和殴打。完整录像和诉状未能提供给外界独立审查。录像的时间、完整性和背景都很重要，因为指控涉及父母据称知道什么、指示了什么、做了什么，而不只是他们家中发生了什么。1

有一项被报道的指控更为具体。据ABC News转述的当局说法，Xuan曾进入一所学习中心，当时一名保姆正在打一个孩子；Xuan据称指示她打得更重。这是有关某项指示的指控，不是经过核实的引语，也不是法院认定的事实。具体日期和完整背景尚未确定。5

这项调查开始的时间，比这些指控早一年多。警方于2025年5月调查一起疑似虐待事件，涉及一名头部受伤的两个月大婴儿；他们在住所内发现十多名未满13岁的儿童。据报道，该婴儿因严重头部创伤住院；住院这一事实不能证明是谁造成了伤害。5 23

调查、带离与起诉

  1. 2025年5月

    婴儿头部受伤，引发疑似虐待调查。

    523
  2. 2025年7月16日

    美联社的报道描述了儿童被带离，以及当局接管21名儿童的照护。

    13
  3. 2026年10月6日

    检方宣布起诉；父母在帕萨迪纳作无罪答辩。

    19

因此，2026年10月的进展是此前保护性介入之后的刑事起诉，并非本周才发现这些儿童。2025年7月16日，已有报道说21名儿童由州政府照管。13

这些数字指的是不同群体

ABC News 10月8日的报道说，当局认为至少15名儿童是受害者，这个家庭21名子女中有19名通过代孕出生。起诉公告和KTLA的报道则分别称，至少14名代孕出生的儿童据称遭到虐待。这些数字衡量的是不同事项：子女总数、代孕出生人数和被指称的受害者人数。它们不一定相互矛盾。2 1 22

NBC早前的一篇报道说，至少有14名儿童通过代孕出生；这是一个下限，并非最终出生总数。这也不同于14名代孕出生的被指称受害者。没有逐个儿童的统计说明，为什么检方提到家中有16名儿童，而报道的家庭子女总数是21名，也没有说明每个阶段有哪些儿童在场。4 1

据报道，这对夫妇在全国各地招募代孕者。ABC 10月8日的报道称，他们曾向一名代孕者支付135,000美元，但尚无文件证实，付款时间、合同条款及款项涵盖的内容也未确定。这并非经过核实的平均金额，也不是全家的预算。代孕有助于解释家庭成员构成，但不能证明存在虐待。5 2

逮捕令与保释金额的出入

起诉公告称，Chunmei Lei是一名此前已因重罪虐待儿童罪被起诉的保姆。ABC报道称有一份尚未执行的逮捕令，NBC则称该保姆在逃。最新指控称，父母帮助一名被指控虐待两个月大婴儿的保姆逃跑。所谓协助的具体行为和日期尚未确定，也没有关于其之后是否被捕的消息。起诉和逮捕令都不等于定罪。1 3 4 2

有关保释的报道在一项重要程序事实方面存在出入。地区检察官10月6日的说法区分了检方要求的100 million美元保释金总额与法官下令为每名被告设定的20 million美元保释金。ABC News 10月7日也报道每人20 million美元，并在10月8日的报道中再次确认这一金额。NBC News于10月7日发布的报道则称，这对夫妇的保释金设为100 million美元。1 5 2 4

有支持的法官裁定金额是每人20 million美元。现有记录无法证明100 million美元的要求是针对每人还是两人合计，也无法证明曾先将保释金定为100 million美元、之后再降低。金额也不能证明有罪。

起诉文件将被告姓名写作Guojun Xuan和Silvia Zhang。报道中，他们的姓名也被写作Guojon Xuan、Guo Jun Schwen或Schwan、John Schwan，以及Sylvia Zhang、Jang、Jung或Jeang。保姆的姓名也有Chunmei Li或Shun Lee等写法。这些差异并不能证明存在其他被告或经核实的别名。1 6 5 4 2

起诉公告称，父母年龄分别为66岁和39岁；《洛杉矶时报》10月6日的报道和ABC 10月7日的报道则称为65岁和38岁。年龄差异原因未明，并非已确认的生日变更。除共谋罪外，公告明确指出还对Xuan加控一项重罪虐待儿童罪。其他报道提到恐吓证人或劝阻证人作证，但完整的正式起诉罪名和法条条款尚不可得。因涉嫌犯罪被捕与被正式起诉不能混为一谈。1 6 5 28

被带离照护不等于康复

据报道，21名儿童均由州政府照管。这表明孩子已与父母分开，但不能说明每个孩子住在哪里、兄弟姐妹是否安置在一起，或他们需要何种医疗治疗。刑事案件与儿童的长期照护息息相关，但两者并非同一个问题。1 4

已知

  • 父母对2026年10月的指控作了无罪答辩；据报道，21名儿童均由州政府照管。 19

未知

  • 完整的监控证据、各名儿童的安置情况和目前的健康状况尚未确定。没有可核实的下次听证会或审判日期。

后续

  • 关注保姆逮捕令的执行情况、完整起诉文件，以及用于检验每名被告所涉行为的证据。

本报道的消息来源

所提供的洛杉矶县地区检察官办公室起诉公告有三个版本。1 12 15

广播报道包括ABC News 10月7日的报道、节目《Burden of Proof》和10月8日的《Start Here》，以及NBC News的《Top Story》。5 3 2 4

其他报道包括《洛杉矶时报》、NBC News、ABC News、FOX 11 Los Angeles，以及Click2Houston转载的美联社报道。6 11 14 9 13

ABC7 Los Angeles提供了有关认罪答辩的报道、调查时间线，以及后续关于据称可获取资金的报道；ABC7 News也报道了逮捕事件。10 19 27 21

所提供的参考书目还包括Law & Crime、NewsLooks、《华尔街日报》、LAist、Fox News和Courtroom Insider。7 8 16 17 18 20

其他报道来自KTLA、Clarín、13abc、Yahoo转载的《洛杉矶时报》报道，以及KESQ。22 23 24 25 28

Interactive News、US Times Mirror、Democratic Voice USA和Conservative Legal News补全了所提供的消息来源。收录这些来源并不能解决现有报道摘录中缺失的细节。26 29 30 31

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  1. The state has taken custody of all 21 children in one Arcadia family.
  2. Their parents face charges alleging they directed repeated physical abuse by live-in nannies. Both pleaded not guilty, and both are presumed innocent.
  3. What evidence can establish whether the parents directed abuse, rather than a nanny acting alone?
  4. Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang were charged on October 6, 2026, with conspiracy to commit child abuse and related offenses. They entered their not-guilty pleas that day at their arraignment in Pasadena. The allegations concern their home in nearby Arcadia.
  5. The accusation goes beyond whether a caregiver injured a child. The couple are accused of directing daily abuse and watching punishments through cameras inside the home. Those claims remain unproven. The complete complaint and surveillance recordings were not available for independent examination.
  6. One specific allegation places Xuan at a learning center while a nanny was striking a child. He is accused of instructing her to strike the child harder. The incident's exact date and complete context are not established.
  7. That is an allegation about an instruction, not a verified quotation or a court finding. Its significance is whether evidence can connect a parent to a particular act of abuse, rather than infer participation simply because the children were in the parent's care.
  8. The home contained a reported 32 cameras; an earlier description called them approximately 32 motion-activated cameras. The couple are accused of watching punishments through that system. A camera count, by itself, does not establish who watched or directed any incident.
  9. The prosecution's account identifies recordings from April 27 through May 7, 2025, allegedly showing spanking, slapping and hitting. Without the complete footage, its timing, completeness and context cannot be independently tested. Those details matter to establishing each defendant's conduct.
  10. A two-month-old infant's head injury prompted a suspected-abuse investigation in May 2025. By July 16, 2025, removal and custody of 21 children were already being reported. The October 6, 2026 charges are a new criminal development, not this week's discovery of the children.
  11. The infant was reported hospitalized with severe head trauma. Officers found more than a dozen children under 13 in the home during that investigation. No exact date within May is established, and the hospitalization does not, by itself, prove who caused the injury.
  12. The family total is reported as 21, with 19 born through surrogacy. The central allegation concerns abuse of 15 of 16 children in the home. A separate formulation identifies at least 14 surrogate-born alleged victims. These counts measure different groups.
  13. Another account describes at least 15 alleged victims overall. Earlier wording put surrogate births at at least 14, a lower bound rather than a final total. That is also different from at least 14 surrogate-born alleged victims, some as young as two months.
  14. No child-by-child accounting establishes why 16 children in the home differs from 21 in the family, or which children were present at each stage. Some wording gives at least 21 overall. The available evidence does not reconcile every denominator.
  15. The couple reportedly recruited surrogates across the country. One account gives a payment of $135,000 to one surrogate. That figure is not a verified average, a total surrogacy budget, or evidence that every surrogate received the same amount.
  16. The reported $135,000 payment lacks documentary confirmation here. Its date, contractual terms and what it covered are unestablished. Surrogacy helps explain the family's size and composition; it is not proof of abuse or evidence about other surrogacy families.
  17. The charging account identifies Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39. Other accounts give 65 and 38 and use different spellings of both names. Neither a birthday explanation nor verified aliases are established; the variations do not identify additional defendants.
  18. A nanny identified in the charging release as Chunmei Lei was previously charged with felony child abuse. Other descriptions use Chunmei Li or Shun Lee. Those spellings are not established as verified aliases either.
  19. An active arrest warrant was reported, and the nanny was described as on the run. The warrant's issuance date is not established, nor is any subsequent arrest. A prior charge and an outstanding warrant are not a conviction.
  20. The couple are also accused of helping a nanny who abused a two-month-old child escape. The alleged assistance's precise acts and date are unestablished. That accusation remains unproven, as does the underlying claim about who abused the infant.
  21. The defense denies abuse by the parents. Xuan's attorney, Mitchell Krems, denies Xuan abused the children and blames a nanny. Alleged misconduct by a nanny does not, on its own, establish or disprove whether the parents directed it.
  22. The judge's reported bail order is $20 million for each defendant. The prosecution requested $100 million, but whether that request covered each defendant or the pair is unestablished. The bail amount is not a finding of guilt.
  23. One account instead gives $100 million as the couple's bail. The supported distinction is between a request and a judicial order. No established sequence shows bail first ordered at $100 million and then reduced to $20 million each.
  24. The charging details are also incomplete. An additional felony child-abuse charge against Xuan is specifically identified. Other descriptions mention witness intimidation or dissuading witnesses, but arrest on suspicion of an offense and a filed count are not interchangeable.
  25. The available material does not establish a complete count-by-count breakdown for either defendant, statutory sections, a court case number or case-specific potential sentences. No verified next hearing date, trial date or subsequent plea change is available.
  26. The answer to the central question is still unresolved: the parents are accused of directing and monitoring abuse, but their individual roles have not been established in court. The complete recordings and charging documents must test that accusation, alongside the defense's denial.
  27. For the children, removal from the household is a completed protective intervention, not a documented account of recovery. Their individual placements, whether siblings remain together, present medical conditions, treatment needs and longer-term care remain unestablished.

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