Every Father's Rights
My daughter, while still in utero, was taken from me by her mother. We were in a relationship. When she was 7 months pregnant, she fled the island of Saipan (a US Commonwealth near Guam; all Saipanese are US Citizens) back to Korea. In Korea, an unmarried single woman has total custody of her child. I kept in touch with the mother, tried to send money (which was returned) and kept all the photos that were sent to me. I asked to bring my daughter to Saipan, but was denied. When my daughter Ka-Hyun was approximately 17 months old, her mother sold her to Holt International Children's Center in Korea. The mother lied to me and didn't tell me about this for months and months. She then told me that my daughter was adopted in the Netherlands. Several months after I met my current wife, I asked her to help me search for my daughter. After months of searching, my wife found out that the adoption agency was Holt International in Korea. Holt has a partner agency called Holt, in Portland Oregon. Holt Oregon had initially provided a great deal of assistance in my wife's search, assistance which declined markedly once Holt learned that they were the adoption agency. My wife learned that my daugher was not in fact in the Netherlands, but was adopted in the US. This makes the adoption subject to US rules. I am a US citizen. As the father of Ka-Hyun, I did not give my consent for my daughter to be adopted. My wife and I wrote a very long letter to Ka-Hyun's adoptive parents, which Holt Oregon said was passed to the adoptive parents. We contacted Holt to see if the parents had received and read the letter. Holt then stated that the adoptive parents chose not to have any contact between my daughter and me, despite our fervent claim that we had no intention of attempting to gain custody of my daughter. We wanted my daughter to know that I didn't know she was adopted out, I repeatedly tried to get custody of her when she was still in Korea, and I just wanted her to know that I loved her, and wanted to know that she was ok. Holt refused to provide any information beyond the fact that the adoptive family had adopted a second child from Korea. My daughter has 2 half sisters and 2 half-brothers, two nephews, 24 first cousins, hundreds of second and third cousins, living grandparents, 2 uncles, 5 aunties, and all would like to see her. The last photos of I have of Ka-Hyun my wife blew up and put in our hallway. She resembles my other two daughters, one is 20 with a son, one is 6. Is she still alive? Is she ok? Does she know I never gave her up? Does she know I think about her all the the time? Does she know that I now live in San Jose, CA? Where are my rights? Where is my daughter?
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