Date: 2012-04-12
Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com
The Russian children’s rights ombudsman says he wants an American woman who sent her young adopted son back to Russia to testify in a Moscow court.
TOMILINO, Russia —
The Russian children’s rights ombudsman says he wants an American woman who sent her young adopted son back to Russia to testify in a Moscow court.
Torry Hansen was living in Shelbyville, Tennessee, in April 2010 when she sent her then-7-year-old son on a plane alone back to Moscow with a note that said the boy was violent and she no longer wanted to keep him.
A Tennessee judge ruled last month that Hansen is liable for child support in a lawsuit brought by her former adoption agency.
Pavel Astakhov said Thursday he would like Hansen, who has sued him in a Moscow court, to testify at a hearing scheduled for next month.
Astakhov says the boy now lives in foster care and taking care of him costs around $2,300 a month for housing and “psychological correction.”
(This version corrects that boy lives in foster care, not an orphanage.)
