Holt International Children's Services: Difference between revisions

in recent years, the Holt agency was accused for illegal adaptations with [[Brothers Home]] between 1970s and 1980s where Peter Moller, an adoptee from Denmark learned his mother was alive and demanded inquiry of illegal adoptions between 1960 and 1980s to Truth and Reflection commission, Adam Crapser who adopted into an abusive home, discovered his citizenship was illegal .<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/sep/28/korea-is-hiding-our-past-the-adoptees-searching-for-their-families-and-the-truth|title=‘Korea is hiding our past’: the adoptees searching for their families – and the truth|publisher=The Guairdan}}</ref>. the agency under fire when in 2014, when a 3-year-old Madoc Hyunsu O'Callaghan was murdered by his adoptive father Brian O'Callaghan prior of adoption, Hyunsu's foster mother asked Holt to adopt Hyunsu as her son but it would't allow and his adoptive father hide PSTD during screening test <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/02/113_155019.html|title=Holt under inspection after adoptee's death|publisher=The Korea Times}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140406000215|title=Toddler's murder reopens old wounds for Korean adoptees|publisher=The Korea Hearld}}</ref> and in 2020 16-month-old Jeong-in was murdered by her adoptive parents after Holt matched them and death of [[Sherin Mathews]] in Texas which Indian government suspended ties with the agency