Update on Mother Who Returned Adopted Son to Russia

Torry Hansen, the Tennessee woman who adopted a little boy from Russia and then sent the 7year-old back, alone, with a note stating she no longer wanted him, is preventing him from being adopted again in Russia.  Adoption Institute writes that "Hansen refuses to terminate her parental rights, reports Natalya Krainova in a January 19 Moscow Times article titled 'Boy Sent to Russia Can't Be Adopted.' According to the story, U.S. prosecutors are attempting to terminate Hansen's parental rights, but she is refusing to do so in an attempt to avoid making child support payments. In the wake of the scandal, adoptions from Russia to the U.S. were slowed and a new bilateral agreement governing such adoptions is being drafted. For the article, go to: http://bit.ly/gAHZcr . For previous coverage, go to: http://bit.ly/dnHOgt  and http://bit.ly/ekxfbJ . To read the Institute's press release calling for the "thoughtful, expeditious" resumption of Russia adoptions, go to: http://bit.ly/9XiMl3.