Dutch diplomat who gave up adopted Korean girl, 7, returns home

Dutch Tolerance?Dec 14th, 2007 - 00:42:33

Illustrates the lack of it. They lecture their minorities to accept diversity but when in comes to themselfs, another story.

Sickening story. I bet the government will distract the debate at home by lambastingtheir immigrate community.

Reminds me of Ann Frank story, they never learn.

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knickerbockerDec 14th, 2007 - 10:01:40

Grotesque is the word that comes to mind. What kind of people go out of their way to f*** up an orphan???

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ExactlyDec 14th, 2007 - 10:40:52

It was up to them to raise her. But they neglected her. I think the baby sitter spent more time with her then them monsters.

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whateverJan 17th, 2008 - 13:13:17

There is much more to this whole story than any of you care to hear about. I've heard their story first hand from the family themselves, and the newspapers hardly cover the hardships the Poeteray's went through with Jade. You say that they make you sick, well all of you make me sick.

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hong kong girl with a heartApr 30th, 2009 - 19:33:08

update: last month, jade was fully adopted by a family in hong kong -- and reportedly happy, healthy and doing well in a hong kong school.

i don't care how difficult her situation was for the dutch couple. your child is your child -- blood or adopted. if your natural child becomes ill, disabled or has a difficult problem, you don't give up half-way through treatment and abandon him/her in a foreign country, and then move to the other side of the world.

what we've heard here is that jade was never treated as part of the family. they never gave her dutch citizenship, after SEVEN YEARS. the fact that the father worked in the consulate makes it even weirder. they claimed the issue 'slipped their mind.' what parent makes an important legal document 'slip their mind' for 7 years?

jade reportedly didn't speak dutch natively, though she should have, given she was adopted as an infant. the nanny says the mother never held her, and referred to the other two birth children as the 'real' children. the fact that jade was fluent in cantonese -- not an easy dialect -- when nobody else in her family was, makes me think she was 'raised' by the nanny or maid.

and the parents blame the little girl for having bonding issues? who wouldn't under those circumstances?

i'm proud of hong kong for taking good care of her, even though she's not from here, and was just 'dropped off' by a diplomat.

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