Showing posts with label adoption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adoption. Show all posts

Friday, April 09, 2010

This is simply despicable

MOSCOW - Russia threatened to suspend all child adoptions by U.S. families Friday after a 7-year-old boy adopted by a woman from Tennessee was sent alone on a one-way flight back to Moscow with a note saying he was violent and had severe psychological problems.

The boy, Artyom Savelyev, was put on a plane by his adopted grandmother, Nancy Hansen of Shelbyville.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the actions by the grandmother “the last straw” in a string of U.S. adoptions gone wrong, including three in which Russian children had died in the U.S.
Read the rest here.

All I can say is that as an American I am embarrassed. Actually as a human being I am embarrassed.