Adoptive parents want Amy back

By Pernille Eriksen, pere@tv2.dk 14 June 2012 08:11

For the first time breaking adoptive silence in the case of Amy. They want her to come back.

"There is nothing we want more burning than to get Amy back to our family," says Oxana and Kenneth Steen to the Sealand.

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The couple is working closely with Næstved and residence ark, where 12-year-old Amy is currently located, and is trying to slowly rebuild trust relationship, so the girl can come home again.

"We love Amy and we are fighting for her," says Kenneth Steen to the Sealand.

Have felt vilified

Case of Amy has aroused huge anger in the country. Especially a videotape of a violent movement from the girl's foster family to a secret cottage, has caused outrage and debate on children's rights.

The couple tells Zealand that they felt vilified as miserable parents who brought a child in Ethiopia and then got the girl placed with a foster family.

Amy came to Denmark from Ethiopia with his sister in 2009. But according to the adoptive parents went there a few months before the family experienced a violent anger from the eldest daughter.

Threatened suicide

Amy could, according to the adoptive parents be violent, ran away from home and threatened to commit suicide.

They describe a family that slowly disintegrated. In everyday life, they were pressured by Amy, according to her parents suffer from "attachment disorder".

"We're even surprising how pressed we were., She took up a lot and would always be in the center. It was inexhaustible so much attention she demanded. We also have our youngest daughter to think about," says 37-year-old Oxana Steen.

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