Posted on 04/09/2010 3:05:56 PM PDT by SmartInsight
A 7-year-old Russian boy adopted by an American family last year was put on a return flight to Moscow this week because of violent and psychotic behavior, according to a Tennessee grandmother.
Once the child learned enough English, he told his new family about the horrors of his previous life, including being beaten at the orphanage after his mother abandoned him, she said.
He also told of an incident in which he burned down a building near the orphanage, she said.
Hansen said the child had a "hit list" of people he was targeting, including her daughter, who he said he "wanted to kill for the house." He threatened to kill her grandson for a videogame, she said.
The final incident that convinced Hansen she should send the boy back to Russia was when she caught him starting a fire with papers in his bedroom last Monday, she said. She feared the child might burn down the house and kill her family, she said.
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Have you ever tried getting a 7 yr old into a suitable group home? It's very, very difficult. It takes months, IF you can even find a place that takes kids that age. Better to get them out of the home before someone is hurt or killed.
I teach these kids, and I've gotten to see the system work and not work close up.
true. Russia did not send the kid here, but they did get rid of him! WHY didn’t they place him with a russian family? Are russians not good enough to adopt for their own kids? If that child was a genius, believe me, the russians would have kept him and brought him up to suit their needs. They knew the child was a problem so they pawned him off to Americans.
You are taking the reasonable and comparing it to the absurd.
Please understand this. The Russian Agencies LIED to these people, They did not give them all/ any information. When my friend went to adopt his child they were told that they could not even take these kids for physical exams.
When we had our foster daughter, we were never told that she had abused animals. There is no way I would have taken her if I had been told that. Our SW left out every bit of information that would reflect negatively on the child. When we spoke to her adoptive mother, the woman tried to tell us everything, but the SW's told us that she was just being negative.
You are being very naive, and it is very clear that you are being guided by emotions rather than reality.
I want you to Sign up for Foster care, jump through the hoops my wife and went through, and take one of these RAD children keep them in your house, and get back to me. If you have better luck than us than God bless you and good fortune.
But until you have dealt with this personally you do not have a clue as to the emotional toll this takes on you, and I will never put my wife through that kind of Hell again.
International adoptions are finalized in country before the child can immigrate.
Bedford County officials want to figure out if abuse actually happened, and if it happened in their county. If so, Hansen could face charges.
Also another big mystery here. The Bedford County School system has no record of Artem, or Hanson's 10 year old biological son Logan ever being enrolled in school or home schooling.
Deputies are trying to figure out if they were schooled in another county.
If not, Hansen could face charges.
Hmmm. No record of the adoptive child or her other child going to school or being homeschooled. I think there's more to this story than meets the eye.
You’ve got to be kidding. Threatening to kill people is typical family stuff and acting like a boy? Not in any family I know. And starting fires is one of the first signs of deviant behavior that future serial killers exhibit; that and cruelty to animals.
When a child is abused or does not form attachments, it often leads to sociopathic behavior. People who have adopted kids in this country and have not been told about the child’s problems sometimes find themselves in this same predicament.
I’ve seen RAD twice with friends who have adopted children through the foster system.
People who haven’t seen it first hand will never get it. It isn’t the same as a biological child, that bond just isn’t there.
I was heartbroken when my friend sent her child back into the foster system....she brought her back when the daughter was 4 because they thought they could keep her from sexually acting out, (the new foster mother was much more permissive). It has been hell though. She graduates this spring, and will be going to the military if they take her. I can’t imagine that working out.
“Have you ever tried getting a 7 yr old into a suitable group home? “
No. I don’t mean to imply that it is easy.
I just wonder, what would I do if my (non-adopted) 8 year old had so behaved? If a plane to Russia were not some sort of option for me?
14, not 4
I agree with you but without knowing further information, I wonder if the parents/grandmother wanted to send this child as far away from their family as possible...worried that our mental health system would fail them all.
This case happened near where I live.
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Well, parents who I know have installed internal servailance systems, extra locks, removed the kids' doors... they lock up everything, and pray that the kid doesn't kill them all at night before placement. Some of them are given up into the court system because the parents simply can't deal with them, and they have other kids who they have to keep safe.
It's a very, very tough situation. There is very little help out there and what help there is, is difficult to get and does not give immediate results, even in an emergency.
I have a student right now who is "supposed" to be going to a group home - as of several months ago. He's shoved his mother down the stairs, dumped grandma out of her wheelchair, smashed the electrical box on the house, likes fire, and terrorized his younger brother and sister... Maybe they'll get help before someone is seriously injured, maybe not.
Jade this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you to step in and be the all saving hero. Go ahead lets's see how long you last with this precious little waif.
I will bet you last about 3 months.
I thought it was only leftists who didn't know the difference between human beings and stuff they could buy at a store.
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