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New information on Dmitry Yakolev/Chase Harrison was published in the Russian press today. The English language online edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda fills in some details of Dima’s history prior to his transport to the US–and in a few short words tells us something about the care of women and children in post Soviet Russia (something I could write more on, but won’t at this time). It also contradicts somewhat an earlier report in the Russian language Gazetta that authorities had been unable to place Dima domestically due to a “series of serious diseases.” Moreover (not mentioned in the article), the placing agency, European Adoption Consultants is a major Adoption Russian Style money generator, and if the orphanage director had the chance to pick up a hefty “donation” from the Harrisons, its Russian customers would be shown the door. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda: Dima had made a long journey from Russia’s Pechor Pskovsk region to the U.S. His new family lived in Herndon, Virginia outside Washington DC. First, it seemed that fate had dealt the boy a second chance. His biological mother had put him up for adoption immediately after his birth — even though she too was raised in an Continue Reading →

The English language Moscow Times reported four hours ago that European Adoption Consultants, contrary to earlier news reports in RPC News and Gazetta, has not been banned from operating in the Russian Federation. (see Forever Family–Forever Dead memorial blog below.) The agency, however, is under investigation over its failure to immediately report the death last week of Dmitry Yakolev (adopted name Chase Harrison) in Virginia. The Moscow Times also said that the accreditation of two other agencies, The Cradle of Hope Adoption Center and Family and Children’s Agency has been withdrawn over failure to keep the Russian Education and Science Ministry informed on the well-being of adoptees placed by them as required by Russian law. Vladimir Kabanov, head of the ministry’s adoption department denied that the agencies were connected to the Yakolev/Harrison case, saying they are guilty of separate violations. EAC director Margaret Cole refused to comment as did officials from the other agencies. Having spent a lot of time in Russia myself, I was curious at the speed in which the ministry had reportedly booted EAC. Usually the apparatchiki grinds as slow as a babushka picks through the rynok. It’s hearening to know that the ministry is on top Continue Reading →

I have updated Forever Family – Forever Dead to include new information on Chase Harrison, including his original name and place of adoption. If more information becomes available I’ll add it. I have also updated information on the Jessica Albina Hagmann case. Thanks to the hard work of Niels, more is known about her death now–and the incredible decision of the judge who let her adopter walk with probation. Go here. And feel free to leave comments there or here.

Another Russian adoptee has died, this time in Herdon, Virginia. Yesterday, Chase Harrison, 21 months, of Purcellville, died after being left in his adoptive father’s Yukon for “several hours.” (here, here, and here. ) The father, Miles, Harrison, 49, was supposed to drop the boy off at daycare, but drove to work instead, “forgetting” that the boy was in the car. Chase was discovered around 5:00 PM last night when a co-worker reported he saw something in Harrison’s SUV. (The windows are tinted.) Yeterday’s temperature reached 91 degrees. According to a study from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the temperature inside the Yukon would have ranged from 131-172 degrees. Miles Harrison, is the managing relocation manager for Project Solutions Group. He collapsed in the parking lot and has been hospitalized since Chase was pronounced dead. Police expect to charge him with manslaughter, which carries as much as a 10 year prison term. The adoptive mother, Carol Harrison, 45, is not implicated. They have no other children. Chase was adopted three months ago, but no further information on the adoption has been released. GO TO NOBODY IS FORGOTTEN–NOTHING IS FORGOTTEN FOR A COMPENDIUM OF ALL MY POSTS ON THE Continue Reading →

On August 3, 2005, The Daily Bastardette published “Forever Family – Forever Dead: A Memoriam to Russian Adoptees Murdered by their Forever Families.” Since then, that entry and my other pieces on abused and murdered Russian adoptees in the United States, I have received hundreds if not thousands of hits from the US Government, courts, child welfare agencies, the media, Russia and other countries of the Former Soviet Union, and the general public. To make it easier for these pieces to be found and read together in one place, I have collected all the entries here: Nikto Ne Zabyt – Nichto Ne Zabyto – Nobody is Forgotten – Nothing is Forgotten. My entries on Masha Allen adopted by a divorced male pedophile, staved and sexually abused for years before her rescue by the FBI, are also here. Though freed from her Forever Father, she remains victim of the adoption industry and a blind and silent child welfare system that wants her to go away You see, Masha has talked too much She lifted up the rock. She is the Rosetta Stone of corrupt international adoption. Masha, too, must be remembered for the brave and beautiful girl she is–and to be Continue Reading →