An Update on the Adopted Child Sent Back to Russia

An Update on the Adopted Child Sent Back to Russia

The adoption agency World Association for Children and Parents (WACAP), which handled the adoption of Artem Savaliev, also called Justin Hansen, has filed a petition Tuesday in Bedford County, Tennessee, asking the court to investigate whether his abandonment (in his case, being sent back to Russia alone on a plane) constitutes abuse or neglect. The agency said in its petition that the adoptive mother Torrey Hansen and her mother Nancy Hansen had inflicted "severe emotional injury upon this minor child who has now been abandoned twice, by his biological and adoptive parents". (The boy's biological mother's rights were terminated in August 2008 and the boy was placed in an orphanage, where he lived for a year until his adoption by Torrey Hansen.)