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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 01:57 PM
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Family sends 7 year old adopted boy back to Russia on one-way flight - alone.
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:grr: Charges should be filed against these idiots.

MOSCOW - A top Russian official demanded that all child adoptions by U.S. families be frozen Friday after a woman from Tennessee shipped her 7-year-old adopted Russian grandson on a one-way flight back to Moscow all alone.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the actions by the grandmother, Nancy Hansen of Shelbyville, “the last straw” in a string of U.S. adoptions gone wrong, including three in which Russian children had died in the United States. The cases have prompted outrage in Russia, where foreign adoption failures are reported with gusto.

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The Kremlin children’s rights office said the boy was carrying a letter from his adoptive mother saying she was returning him due to severe psychological problems.

“This child is mentally unstable. He is violent and has severe psychopathic issues,” the letter said. “I was lied to and misled by the Russian Orphanage workers and director regarding his mental stability and other issues..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36322282/ns/world_news-europe/


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