A South Korean court has ordered the country's biggest adoption agency to pay $74,700 in damages to a 48-year-old man for mishandling his adoption as a child to the U.S.
FILE - South Korean adoptee Adam Crapser speaks during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 2, 2019. A court on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 ordered South Korea’s biggest adoption agency to pay 100 million won in damages to the 48-year-old man for mishandling his adoption as a child to the United States, where he faced legal troubles after surviving an abusive childhood before being deported in 2016.
In reading out the verdict, Judge Park Jun-min did not elaborate on why the court refused to hold the government accountable. Crapser’s lawyers said they will review the full version of the ruling, which the court didn’t immediately release, before deciding whether to appeal.“The knew that children procured for adoptions were not being protected, that their human rights were being violated — they should have done something about it, but they didn't.
Crapser, who was named Shin Seong-hyeok by his South Korean mother, had sought 200,000 won in damages from South Korea’s government and Holt. His lawsuit, filed in 2019, accuses the defendants of manipulating his paperwork, employing poor background checks that failed to weed out his abusive adopters, and not following up on whether he obtained U.S. citizenship.
Forcibly separated from his then-wife and children and friends in America, Crapser said he struggled with intense anxiety and depression in South Korea, where he found himself isolated by language and culture four decades after being sent to his initial adopters in Michigan at age 3. Crapser thought he had turned a corner, opening a barber shop and an upholstery business and starting a family, before being served his deportation paperwork in 2015 after a green card application triggered a background check.
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