The Evolution Committee: “At least 31 children in the Brothers’ Welfare Center were adopted overseas… Recommending a national apology”

It has been newly revealed that at least 31 children admitted to the Brothers Welfare Center between 1976 and 1989 were adopted overseas.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) held its 96th committee meeting today (the 21st) and decided to “find the truth” about 10 cases, including the Brothers Welfare Center human rights violations.

The TRC announced that it confirmed the existence of 31 children and 17 biological mothers among the Brothers Welfare Center inmates who were adopted overseas.

The results of the investigation also revealed that the “Confirmation of Support Obligor Notice,” which should have been conducted to find guardians before requesting adoption of children admitted to the facility, was ineffective. The notice

was conducted at a district office in Seoul, unrelated to the place where the children were found, while the children had already been transferred to an adoption agency and were in the process of being adopted overseas.

The TRC recommended that the government issue an official apology, restore the victims’ honor, restore identities and family relationships lost during the forced detention process, and identify missing persons.

At today’s meeting, it was decided that the truth of the Samcheong Education incident would be further investigated, and 70 additional human rights violations were confirmed. Accordingly, the number of victims whose truth has been investigated in relation to the Samcheong Education has increased to 634.
 

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Moon Ye-seul (moonster@kbs.co.kr)