A South Korean court has cleared the government and an adoption agency of all liability in a lawsuit filed by a Korean man whose traumatic adoption journey led to an abusive childhood in the United States and ultimately his deportation to South Korea after legal troubles. The Seoul High Court overturned an earlier lower court ruling that ordered the adoption agency to pay Adam Crapser $68,000 in damages for not ensuring that his U.S. adoptive parents obtained his citizenship. Crapser, a married father of two, says he was abused and abandoned by two different adoptive families. He got into trouble with the law and was deported because he was not a U.S. citizen.
