Adam Crapser, an adoptee who was deported to South Korea in 2016 because his American parents never secured his citizenship, has delivered a scathing denunciation of the Korean government and his adoption agency in a Seoul appeals court
FILE - South Korean adoptee Adam Crapser speaks during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, on Jan. 2, 2019. , an adoptee who was deported to South Korea in 2016 because his American parents never secured his citizenship, delivered a scathing denunciation of the Korean government and his adoption agency in a Seoul appeals court on Wednesday.
Crapser accuses Holt and the Korean government of “malfeasance” that contributed to his traumatic adoption experience in the U.S. He says he was abused and abandoned by two different pairs of adoptive parents who never filed his citizenship papers. He ran into legal troubles as an adult that resulted in his deportation in 2016.
Crapser cried as he talked about struggling to adjust to life in Korea, without the ability to speak the language and lacking knowledge about the culture, and how he feels tormented by the separation from his two children, including a 10-year-old daughter. Crapser’s lawyer, Mina Kim, said her client was seeking 200 million won in damages and urged the court to see how the Korean government and Holt were supposedly liable for “their role in this illegal adoption, which was similar to human trafficking.”Crapser’s lawsuit accuses Holt of manipulating his paperwork to disguise him as an orphan despite the existence of a known birth mother, exposing him to abusive adopters by botching background checks and not following up on whether he obtained U.S.
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