This is cross posted from my Nikto Ne Zabyt (Memoriam for Russian Adoptees Murdered and Abused by their Forever Families) blog. I need to spend today working on Illinois legislative matters, but wanted to get this out first. A curious little piece on the Hansen family appeared Saturday on WSMV-TV, Nashville: Hansen women regularly held yard sales When I saw the Google News headline my first thought was “stretching for a story.” Then I read it. Though the reporter made no connection between last week’s yard sale that featured “kids’ clothes, toys, car seats and stuff” and Artem’s quick departure for Moscow, I can’t help but see one. Can you? On Saturday, neighbors who live beside the women in Bedford County said the family kept to themselves and hardly anyone knew them, but the women did hold weekly yard sales. Chelby Clark said she even went to a yard sale at the Hansen’s home last week. “The kids may have been running around,” she said. On Saturday, several long tables were still sitting in the front yard of the Hansen’s homes off Highway 41 in El Bethel. Clark said their sale last week centered around kids’ items. She recalled seeing Continue Reading →

This is cross posted from my Nikto Ne Zabyt (Memoriam for Russian Adoptees Murdered and Abused by their Forever Families) blog. Adoptee dumpers Torry Hansen and her mother Nancy finally bought a clue and a real lawyer–and then failed to show up for a sitdown Friday with Bedford County (TN) Sheriff Randall Boyce. Here’s the intro to a long article in Saturday’s Shelbyville Times-Gazette about his area’s international pariahs. The mother and grandmother of a young adopted Russian boy sent by himself back to Moscow failed to make an appointment they had originally scheduled Friday to talk to Bedford County Sheriff Randall Boyce about the case. Boyce told media representatives Friday that Torry Hansen would not be showing up at his department, but “may be here sometime next week.” “She called and said her attorney didn’t think it was in her best interest at this point … mainly because of the media being here,” Boyce said. Boyce told the press: “This is an international deal … and we’re going to handle it a little bit at a time so we don’t make a mistake,” he said, adding that his department had never dealt with this kind of situation before. Here Continue Reading →

The adoption agency that placed Artem Saveliev/Artem Justin Hansen with his Forever Mother Torry Ann Hansen has been identified: WACAP–World Association for Children and Parents working out of Renton, Washington. And… Novisti reports that the Russian government has suspended the agency’s operations “We have suspended the permission of the nonprofit corporation World Association for Children and Parents to operate in Russia,” Alina Levitskaya told journalists. The agency assisted in a U.S. couple’s adoption of a Russian boy, Artyom Savelyev, who arrived in Russia by plane on Thursday with a note in which his adoptive parents said they were sending him back due severe psychological problems… A spokeswoman for World Association for Children and Parents in Russia said the adoption agency had no report of the incident. She said the agency would provide all the necessary information on the child’s adoption at the request of the Russian authorities. According to WAPAC’s International Adoption page WACAP is proud to be one of the largest and most experienced international nonprofit adoption agencies in the United States. In 1976, WACAP placed its first child for international adoption from Korea. In the 1980s, we expanded our adoption programs to include Thailand and India. WACAP was Continue Reading →

This is cross-posted from my Nikto Ne Zabyt (Memoriam for Russian Adoptees Murdered and Abused by their Forever Families) blog.These are “before” and “after” pictures of Artem Saveliev/Artem Justin Hansen. The first picture isof Artem and Forever Mother Torry Ann Hansen taken mid-end September 2009 at his orphanage in Primorye. The second picture is of Artem at Domodedovo Airport, Moscow, April 8, 2010 Here is a picture of the note Forever Mother Torry Ann Hansen sent with her throw-away.I am writing in depth today, but I wanted to get these pictures up. They’re important.

This is cross posted from my Nikto Ne Zabyt (Memoriam for Russian Adoptees Murdered and Abused by their Forever Families) blog.Большое спасибо моим друзьям в Москве Свет и Кайл Китон (Windows to Russia) за эту статью. (Much thanks to my friends in Moscow Svet and Kyle Keeton (Windows to Russia) for this story. Breaking news out of Russia! Russian media reports that a 7-year old boy, adopted six months ago by an American couple, is now back in Russia after being “refused” by his Forever Family. Artem (Artyom) Saveliev, adopted name Artem (Artyom) Justin Hansen, arrived in Moscow last Saturday on a flight from Washington accompanied only by a note from his Forever Mother, Torry Hansen, saying she’d been “mislead” by Russian authorities, the adoption was a “mistake” and she was abandoning–er–I mean, returning him. She asked that the adoption be “disannulled.” Artem’s situation was discovered at immigration control when he told authorities he had flown in by himself. The note was found in his pocket. You can read it here. RT Russian Television reports: That’s the letter the boy had with him, where his adopted mother says that she is disappointed, that she is sorry, that she sees that Continue Reading →