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Adopted teen rapes family's other children, shocked parents sue agency after learning he had a history of sexually abusing kids

The couple, from Terre Haute, filed a civil lawsuit against Chinese Children Adoption International on August 13 in the US District Court in Denver
UPDATED AUG 20, 2019

CENTENNIAL, INDIANA: An Indiana couple recently sued a Centennial adoption agency after finding out that a teenage boy they took in from China raped two of their other children. The parents have claimed the agency failed to inform them that the boy had a long history of sexually abusing multiple children while in China.

The couple, from Terre Haute, filed a civil lawsuit against Chinese Children Adoption International (CCAI) on August 13 in the US District Court in Denver for themselves and on behalf of two Chinese boys, they had previously adopted, according to the Denver Post

The lawsuit states that the couple first started adopting Chinese children after their six children reached adulthood. 

They adopted their first child, identified only as N, through Bethany Christian Services in 2014.

A year later, they adopted a boy, identified as L,  who they believed as 12-years-old, through CCAI.

However, the lawsuit claims that he was, in fact, at least 15 or 16 years old at the time.

Within the first month of L's adoption, they began noticing problems in N, including hair loss and loss of appetite, the lawsuit states. 

The problems escalated further in 2016 when the couple used CCAI to adopt another five-year-old boy, identified as J, from China.

The lawsuit claims that, every night after the adoption, J would wake up screaming and crying, and that N would run into the couple's room scared.

J had complained to them about pain in his buttocks, but they initially thought it was a result of cigarette burns he had received while he was being abused in a Chinese orphanage. 

The couple eventually figured out that the culprit was their third son, L, who they discovered had set his alarm for 3 am every night.

When they confronted him, he confessed to raping his adoptive brothers, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit says both N and J have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and an attachment disorder, and that both regularly experience rage, irritability, nightmares, and sleep disturbances.

The teen was taken to a behavioral health center, where he told to his therapist that he had strong sexual urges that he could not control and that he would abuse his brothers again if given the chance.

He was arrested and charged with two counts of sexual battery and sent to a Terre Haute juvenile detention center.

An Indiana counseling agency later uncovered that he had a long history of sexually abusing multiple children and that he had been removed from foster care when he was 5 or 6 for sexually acting out with another child.

He is also said to have confessed to a therapist that he had been sexually active with children and adults since the age of 11. 

The lawsuit said that, when the parents contacted CCIA about L's crimes, an employee denied knowing about his sexual history and continued to insist that he was 12 years old. 

"CCAI also knew or should have known that the orphanage minor child L was adopted from had a reputation for prostituting the children in its care to adults," the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit claims that the extreme financial and emotional pressure linked to the sexual abuse has forced the couple to drop their health care business, sell their house at a loss, and move to Washington, and is asking for an unspecified amount of money from CCIA.

In response, Rev. Joshua Zhong, the co-founder, and president of CCIA remained adamant.

"We have great empathy for the family that brought this suit, but we strongly and categorically deny the allegations," he said. "We expect a full vindication through the courts. We stand behind our decades-strong reputation as a professional and ethical non-profit having served thousands of families and children here and in China."

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