From the AP:
Speaking from the home in Shelbyville that she shares with her daughter, Nancy Hansen said a social worker checked on the boy in January and reported to Russian authorities that there were no problems. But after that, the grandmother said incidents of hitting, kicking, spitting began to escalate, along with threats.
“He drew a picture of our house burning down and he’ll tell anybody that he’s going to burn our house down with us in it,” she told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “It got to be where you feared for your safety. It was terrible.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hdX2aH94-cG6tnHX748IeHKU9oAwD9EVM2480
This hardly sounds like an evil kid. Sounds more like a kid trying to deal with a bunch of stuff. An angry kid without coping skills and without sufficient language skills taken to a new country. Kicking and hitting and one picture. All of which occurred in the last 3 months. Hardly sociopathic behavior.
Kicking, hitting and biting are bad, and I feel for people who have to deal with kids with behavior problems, and I am not trying to pooh-pooh parental difficulties.
However, if the AP article is correct, it really highlights the awfulness of dropping this kid off to fend for himself.