Posted on 04/10/2010 12:24:58 PM PDT by JoeProBono
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A woman who sent her adoptive grandson back to Russia says her family had intended to love and care for the boy but could not overcome his violent outbursts.
Nancy Hansen told The Associated Press on Friday that the boy's episodes culminated in a threat to burn the family's house to the ground. After that, Hansen says the family put him on a plane to Moscow and paid a man to take him to the Russian education ministry....
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Unless this is another case, I think this lady was on tv a few weeks back. She was scared to death of this kid and social services wasn’t offering her any solutions. Pretty
scary situation really.
Used to be Romania who dumped their disturbed children onto unsuspecting adoptive families.
I see Russia doing the same.
It’s probably ‘cuz the poor kid was forced to live in SHELBYVILLE! Yikes!
That’s true. Makes you wonder what happened to this kid.
Anyone reading this who's seen the movie "Orphan?" It's about a Russian adoptee who terrorizes a family.......and is a fairly new dvd release.
I’ll check it out. Thanks
The agency probably knew perfectly well. I knew a couple who adopted two Russian brothers. The younger one was difficult but finally adapted, whereas the older one (7 at the time of adoption) was a fire-setter, violent and aggressive to the family’s other children and a thief. They found that he had something called “attachment disorder,” which is evidently very common among Russian orphanage products, and would probably never bond with another human being. They’re like feral children.
Because the couple wanted to keep his brother, they didn’t send him back, but he had to go into a residential facility by the time he was 10 and it cost them every dime they had to keep him there. I don’t know what has happened to him since.
Also, do you remember that horrible case in Connecticut, where two criminals broke into a families home, overpowered the father, raped and killed the mother, and then raped and killed the young daughters (by setting fire to the house with them in it)? The ringleader in that was a USSR orphanage adoptee (from I don’t remember exactly which country) whose US adoptive family had had problems with him since the beginning - fire setting, killing of pets, threats towards other children, convicted of serial house burglaries by the time he was 12, etc.
Whatever happens to them, they never seem to make up for those first few years in a Russian orphanage.
Are you kidding me? I have been in the grocery store and seen kids do more then scream and spit at their parents. I have seen kids hit their parents, kids curse at their parents, tell their parents they wish them dead, so do we put all these kids are on a plane and send them off? I don’t think so. You get control and be a parent damn it. This lady is just not fit to be a parent. End of story.
That’s the one! The movie was a Netflix rental and I was surprised to note the Russian connection in light of what transpired this week.
..else make sure the insurance is paid to date.
I don’t have or want kids. Obviously this lady should have called you!
What would happen to a child born into a family with this very same scenario. They would be responsible for placing him in a mental institution right? Why is this any different. This is wrong. You don’t get to ‘turn your kid back in’ just because he’s defective.
I agree that many of these kids are just brats, but children adopted abroad many times have severe psychological disorders. Many are born with alcohol fetal syndrome and they do not bond with caregivers after birth. They end up disassociating. I blame this woman because I think the problem of foreign adoptions has been highlighted enough that she should have paid for an independent psychological evaluation. Some people are so desperate to become parents, they’re willing to overlook so many little warning signs.
I had a foreign exchange student from a foreign country who stole things from us (which we didn't discover until after he'd left). Background information we get from agencies handling children coming to us (whether temporary or permanent) are NOT indicative of the personality or traits of the child in question. I had an emergency surgery and couldn't keep my student as long as I had promised, so he went to another home in another city, where he stole items from that home as well. He was returned to his country of origin upon theft discovery at that location. What surprised me most about the tendencies of the student who left our home was that his parents were both professional people of high regard. Their child was devious and deceitful.
I also know of two instances where the parents adopting Russian children weren’t told the true extent of their problems. Both stayed with their families, but the parents had to spend thousands of dollars to deal with the psychological issues (and in one instance, the parents were in fear for their lives, and the lives of their other children.)
“Their child was devious and deceitful.”
Just good socialist. ;-)
The family should have called...Super Nanny!
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