Russia Adoption Scandal: U.S. Parents Brace for Fallout

[Jazzy]

It's hard for people to comprehend Torry Hansen's desperate act. It was troubling enough to hear that she'd sent her adopted son back to his native Russia, arranging for 7-year-old Artyom Savelyev to fly to Moscow by himself, arriving on April 8 with a note from Hansen saying, I no longer wish to parent this child. She was giving him up, the note explained, because he was mentally unstable. But she wasn't giving up on her desire to be a mother. According to ABC News, Hansen, a registered nurse in Shelbyville, Tenn., was trying to adopt a child from another country at the same time she was hiring a driver over the Internet to shuttle Artyom from the Moscow airport to Ministry of Education authorities in Russia.



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[The Dragon Master]

The Russian kid had been taken from one country and put into another, and and had to try to adjust to a totally different way of life from which he was born into. Of course there's going to be issues. As the article said, she could have applied for help from the adoption agency and psychologists. Instead of dumping the poor kid on a flight, by himself, back to Russia. It'll be a miricale if the child doesn't have any perminant reprocussions from this thoughtless act.