180 adoptive parents protest against Agstner's criminalization of international adoption

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29 August 2007

Vienna (OTS) -In an open letter, 180 adoptive parents call on lawyer Eric Agstner to end his campaign to criminalize international adoption. In the letter initiated by Bärbel Klepp together with other adoptive parents, lawyer Agstner (lawyer of trust at the Ethiopian embassy and representative of the adoptive family whose girl was adopted under unclear circumstances) is accused of not only defaming all 70 adopted children with his allegations, which he carried in the media, who came to Austria from Ethiopia via "Family For You", but also to put all adoptive parents in a bad light as "accomplices" by making sweeping statements. Quote from the letter: "We and our children will now be associated with exactly this one case by our environment.