Punish Mom Who Sent Adopted Boy Back?

Punish Mom Who Sent Adopted Boy Back?
April 09, 2010 11:51 PM

Note from unhappygrammy-What about all the children stolen from their families in the U.S. and placed in foster care, who are thrown out of these homes at eighteen years of age, when our government stops paying the foster strangers for their care? How can this be in the childs best interest? This woman paid to adopt this child. The government wasn't paying her.

We began tonight's broadcast with a report from Juju Chang about Tennessee mother Torry Hansen, who sent her 7-year-old adopted son Artyem Saviliev back to Russia by himself after just six months.

In a note she packed with the boy, she claimed the orphanage had misled her and failed to let her know the child was, according to her, "mentally unstable."

Hansen is under criminal investigation and so far, has declined to speak to authorities.

Meanwhile, outraged Russian officials have threatened to freeze adoptions to the United States.

So tonight, we ask: What -- if anything -- should happen to her?

Is she a criminal? Should she be punished? And if so, how?

Click HERE to read the full ABCNews.com report.

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UPDATE: Here is the segment from last night, "Send Him Back Alone?"

http://blogs.abcnews.com/nightlinedailyline/2010/04/punish-mom-who-sent-adopted-boy-back.html