Author: Unknown
Published on: 08/01/2025 | 07:28:44
AI Summary:
Adam Crapser, 49, whose traumatic adoption journey led to abusive childhood in the United States and ultimately his deportation to South Korea in 2016. The Seoul High Court overturned a 2023 lower court ruling that ordered his adoption agency to pay him 100 million won ($68,600) in damages. The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Holt should have informed his adoptive parents that they needed to take additional steps to secure his citizenship after his adoption was finalized in their state court. The government and Holt facilitated Crapser’s adoption to Michigan in 1979. The law eased adoption agencies’ obligations to check on the citizenship status of the children they sent overseas. Critics say the law enabled careless and fraudulent practices that helped fuel what’s believed to be the largest international adoption program in history. The government and Holt were also sued last year by a Korean birth mother who said they were responsible for her daughter’s adoption to the United States in 1976. The lawsuits combined with an ongoing fact-finding investigation into complaints from hundreds of adoptees who suspect their origins were falsified or obscured.
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