Ben Pennings says matter continues to cause ‘anxiety’ after nine-year-old photographed, according to letters
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“I was both panic-stricken and furious when I discovered that Adani hired burly security contractors from the war in Afghanistan to secretly follow and photograph my nine-year-old daughter. Two years later I’m still creeped out,” Pennings says in his letter to Adani. “My eldest daughter was 20 when representatives of Adani were following and photographing her little sister. Two years later she still experiences anxiety that she is also being followed, photographed and otherwise investigated.”
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