This is correct, and US states don’t typically help. Parents are in an impossible situation.
I’m posting this on every thread because people are talking like this kid was lighting cats on fire and carrying knives around.
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 is a 7 year old kid, probably emotionally about 2, with limited language skills, spitting, kicking, and hitting for the last 3 months, who is drawing pictures. This is acting out, not being a sociopath.