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Take-this-boy-back mom trial date set

Published time: January 24, 2012 06:07
Edited time: January 24, 2012 10:13
Artyom Savelyev (RIA Novosti / Eugeny Fatkin)
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A trial date has been set for an American woman who shipped her adopted Russian son back to Moscow with no more than a note, saying she didn't want him anymore.

In April 2010, Torry Hansen placed the 7-year old child on the transatlantic flight all by himself, claiming he had psychological problems.

Hansen is being sued for child support by adoption agency World Association for Children and Parents, with the trial set for March 27. Judge F. Lee Russell ordered the trial to be open to the media, despite the defense’s plea to do otherwise.

No criminal charges against Hansen have been pressed.

The boy, Artyom Savelyev, remains in Russia where he's receiving professional care at a special children’s village complex.

The incident sparked outrage internationally, and led to new adoption rules between the US and Russia.

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Im adopted 13.04.2012 20:42

HA wrote in #8
First off, if it is true that he is mentaly ill, then the adopting parents should have been informated about this. With holding such important information, that is just wrong, espesially since he is your responsibility until 18. That's no difference in when you want to know the history of the used car your buying. The birth mother and sperm doner are most likely alcoholics, it most likely was the best desision to give the boy up for adoption, even though it probobly was motivated by the fact that they just didn't want the baby.

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count (unregistered) 24.01.2012 19:36

adoption is kidnapping is like a tomahawk right. sadistic government legislatures ea sily exploit and manage disorder with a swift twist of a pen.   vive le terror

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HA 24.01.2012 16:58

First off, if it is true that he is mentaly ill, then the adopting parents should have been informated about this. With holding such important information, that is just wrong, espesially since he is your responsibility until 18. That's no difference in when you want to know the history of the used car your buying. The birth mother and sperm doner are most likely alcoholics, it most likely was the best desision to give the boy up for adoption, even though it probobly was motivated by the fact that they just didn't want the baby.

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