Parents who found out after more than 40 years that their missing daughter was adopted abroad have filed a lawsuit against the state to hold them accountable.
Four family members, including the missing A's parents, filed a 600 million won lawsuit today (7th) against the state, the infant home that protected the child at the time, and the adoption agency.
This is the first time a lawsuit has been filed to hold the state accountable in a case where a missing child was adopted abroad without finding his or her parents.
After losing their 6-year-old daughter in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province in 1975, both parents met A, who was adopted and raised in the U.S. for the first time in 44 years.
Ms. A was handed over to an adoption agency two months after she disappeared, and overseas adoption was promoted, and after seven months, she left for the United States without her parents knowing.
At that time, the parents reported that they had lost Ms. A, and the child was also at the local police station, but the agency claims that the government did not make any effort to find the parents to meet the demand for overseas adoption.
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