[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4137]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          RETURN LUDWIG KOONS

  (Mr. LAMPSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I am here again. That means that Ludwig 
Koons is still in captivity in Rome, Italy. A 9-year-old boy, abducted 
by his pornographer mother, lives in a compound where there is 
prostitution. We cannot get the United States Government to help us, 
nor can we have get the Italian Government to help us. Psychologists in 
both countries have said the child needs to be removed from the 
situation that he is living in.
  Where are our consciences? Why cannot we make something happen with 
this case?
  I need Members to be as absolutely outraged as I am. Please do 
something to help this child, a 9-year-old United States citizen. Yes, 
he is living with a parent. That parent does not have custody. She is 
in the business of doing erotic sex shows around the world. She has a 
pornographic Web site. Psychologists have said the child is in danger 
if he continues to stay there, and his father has spent millions of 
dollars trying to get the child back home to the United States, 
unquestionably away from the circumstances in which he is living. We 
need help. My colleagues, please respond and bring Ludwig Koons home.

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