Should Mother Be Charged for Sending Adopted 7 y.o. Son to Russia Alone Into Hands Of Stranger

American mother sends adopted 7-year-old back to Russia by himself
08 April, 2010, 19:57
A seven-year-old boy arrived at a Moscow airport from the United States on Saturday morning. "I refuse him", read the note the boy carried with him.

Russias ombudsman for childrens rights, Pavel Astakhov, says the child was adopted in Russia around six months ago by an American woman.

After she understood she really didnt want the child any longer, 27-year-old Torry Ann Hansen decided the best way to solve the problem was simply to ship the boy back to Russia alone on a transatlantic flight.


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This is where the confusion begins as Artyom Justin Hansens boarding pass puts his age at 8 years in which case, under United Airlines regulations, he is allowed to board connecting flights.

But according to Artyoms birth certificate, he is only seven years old, so United Airlines should never have allowed him on that plane.

The Moscow press office of the US airline is refusing to comment.

If this werent bad enough, he was traveling on an expired visa, and how he got through customs and immigration services both in Washington DC and Moscow has not been explained.

When the boy arrived in Russia, he was met at the airport by a private tour guide. In the US, the boy was given an envelope with US$ 200 to give to the guide who was supposed to pick the child up at the airport and take him to the Ministry of Education in Moscow.

However, the child did not have any idea where he was going and why he was put on the flight.

It is monstrous, immoral and illegal Medvedev
It is a monstrous deed on the part of his adoptive parents, to take the child and virtually throw him onto an airplane heading in the opposite direction. To say, Im sorry I could not cope with it, take everything back is not only immoral but also against the law, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with ABC News.

We should understand what is going on with our children or we will totally refrain from the practice of adopting Russian children by American adoptive parents. I can only say we are alarmed by the tendency, Medvedev said.

The case was the last straw for the authorities in Moscow who say that seventeen adopted Russian children have died in America since 1992.

The Russian Foreign Ministry wants all adoptions of Russian children by US citizens suspended.

Russias Foreign Ministry will insist on all adoptions of Russian children in the US being banned until our countries sign a treaty to regulate the conditions of such adoptions. This will establish the responsibilities of the adoptive families. Weve discussed this with the US before. Theyve tried to avoid doing this, but this latest incident has exhausted our patience, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Russia intends to reach bilateral agreements with other countries in order to protect Russian children adopted by foreign citizens, head of Russias State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, Konstantin Kosachev told Itar-Tass news agency.

Such cases are villainous, absolutely not acceptable and this must not happen under any circumstances, Kosachev said. A different, new in-principle legislative mechanism of protecting children that become a subject for international adoption is needed.

This mechanism is obviously clear it is bilateral agreements on adoption, Kosachev added.

Pavel Astakhov says the procedure for returning an adopted child has been violated.

We face such situations when adopters return adopted children quite often within the first year, including international adoptive parents, though it happens less frequently. But, nonetheless, there is a procedure. They were to send a corresponding application to the guardianship bodies, social protection authorities in the US. In America there is a child service which is in charge of children protection. And they were to send a corresponding application, Pavel Astakhov said.

But the mother decided to make her life easier, as she writes in her application, and says that she abandoned the child because she does not want him to destroy her life, her family, and lose her friends. She thinks that she has been misled as to what the boy was going to be like. But we have the boys history and we can see that he is a normal boy and has no mental or physical abnormalities, he is psychologically stable. Our task now is to find out what was the reason for the abandonment. The boy was taken to a hospital in order to find out whether he has any diseases, signs of beating or trauma. So if hes fine, he will be in quarantine for two weeks and after that he will be sent to a child care center.

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[htapp22]

this woman lives like 10 mins from me.

[ProtectSouthOssetia]

@htapp22

is she really hiding ?

[ashatbulaparanormal]

She shouldn't have had him in the first place.

[trifidsagitarius]

I consider myself an emotionless and mentally strong person but when I saw this in the news I fell so sad that I couldn't believe that somebody would do this to a small child.

When I saw that little boy with all his belongings stuffed in that backpack and completely alone in the world my sadness turned into rage against his adoptive mother.

Russia made a wise decision in stopping more adoptions from Americans. Today I learned that 15 Russian adopted children have died as a result of abuse by A

[MackenzieMichael]

I am at a complete loss for words on this one. I agree, it was a monstrous thing to do to a child. Not to mention pathetic and cowardly. Yes, charge her dumb ass with whatever you can get away with and put her with Casey Anthony!

[ProtectSouthOssetia]

@emacrisema She practically did! But boy was lucky not to end up in the wrong hands

[judyluvsnoel]

@ProtectSouthOssetia if i were her i would be hiding. i personally would like to slap the shite out of her. anyone knows that you could end up with an unmanageable kid from foreign adoptions and there is a way to turn over kids you are unable to raise. like just drop them off at a fire station. what she did is so unbelievably cruel. any kids she has should be taken away.

[InternetTG]

@ProtectSouthOssetia didnt see it like that but ya she could be bluffing

[InternetTG]

@htapp22 go kill her for me

[mamasuntwinkle]

@judyluvsnoel - In the U.S. at age 18 they dump them on the street with a plastic bag. Most of the homeless and inprisoned are ex foster children. U.S. Nazi children's homes basically. AND most are removed on false charges for the federal money - over 17 billion per year per govt figures. It is a kidnapping industry. Pedophiles abound.

[mamasuntwinkle]

@trifidsagitarius - Welcome to the U.S. child "protection" industry. Over 1/2 million children on any given day, they are 7-12 times more likely to be abused, raped, killed in state custody foster "care". They kidnap thousands more every few weeks. Where do they all disappear to? Use your imagination. Something is fishy with that farm she lived on. Just strange. U.S. children die all the time in foster care and adoption.

[AcademyArtVenture]

@ProtectSouthOssetia

okay, thank you!! That's really sad that someone would do that to a child... and yes.. thank God!