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RUSSIAN BOY RETURNED, Artyom Says Adoptive Mother Torry Hansen Told Me She Didn’t Love Me!!!
This weekend, the shock and outrage was felt around the world when Torry Hansen, callously sent her adopted seven year old boy on on a one 
way ticket back to Russia. Hansen, never advising the adoption agency who placed the Russian boy, that she was having problems. Never once asking local social services for help in dealing with the child’s “emotional problems” and never enrolling the child in school. Even more disturbing, never advising the orphanage where the Russian boy was adopted from, that she no longer wanted to be his mom. The only OTHER home the little Artyom had ever known.
Instead, she placed a note in the child’s backpack saying “I no longer wish to parent this child.” Returning the little boy as if he were an unwanted item at Target. Scared and confused, landing in Moscow, where a driver picked the child up and was taken to a government office and dumped on their doorstep. How could someone be so insensitive and cruel?
The adopted mother claims he had psychological issues, had emotional outbursts, and she was in fear of her life. She never once sought the expert advice of a child therapist, instead he was tossed back like an unwanted fish being returned to a ocean of uncertainty. Was Torry Hansen afraid that medical experts would disagree with her diagnosis? Did she have a change of heart and didn’t want anyone to challenge her decision? Was she afraid to be called a bad mom and be questioned about her treatment of the child?
The young Russian boy on the other hand tells a different story to authorities. Here is the boy’s translated interview in international news: “The house was near the cemetery, and I was always scared there. We never went anywhere. I was always at home playing with my brother; we were drawing and making figures from play dough. My mother was always saying she did not love me and only loved my brother, only my grandfather hugged me. I don’t want to go back to them, they pulled my hair and always yelled at me.”
It appears Torry Hansen, lacked the maturity and patience to be a real mother. A coward, who sent her own mother to do her dirty deeds. Now, she’s hiding from police in Tennessee who want to speak to her. In fact, Child Social Services is concerned about her own biological child Logan. They question whether or not he is being treated well.
Torry Hansen’s neighbors are perplexed by her actions. The neighbors’ sympathies seemed to be with the boy. A neighbor, Mr. Bailey, said he used to see him playing outside, riding a bicycle, running around with another boy around the same age. “It was typical kid stuff,” he said. He added that a wave and a quick hello were as close as he got to knowing the family.
Several other neighbors said the Hansen’s seemed somewhat disconnected from the community. The boy appeared to be home-schooled and the family did not go to the churches close by. It was hard to relate when so few details were known, they said, but even if Artyom threatened violence, as the Hansen’s claimed, residents said he should have been dealt with here, not shipped home like a faulty product.
“It’s shocking the community that he went all alone,” said Cheryl Clark, the owner of a small store walking distance from the Hansen’s home. “The adoption agency didn’t just throw him on a plane. They had someone with him. He’s still a baby.”
Artyom, now in protective custody in Russia, may get a second chance at a new life. It’s reported there are a couple of Russian families in Moscow interested in adopting the boy. For Torry and Nancy Hansen, hopefully they will face criminal charges and the district attorneys office will give both of them a one way ticket to a jail cell.
I pray that God would keep this Russian boy safe and a loving family will adopt him for good and that he will live a productive and great life different from his past.
THIS ARTICLE IS FALSE. Torry hansen does not even have a son named Logan and the little boy does not have a brother. That little boy threatened to KILL her multiple times and drew pictures of her dying. haven’t you even heard never to adopt a child from Russia?! They are known to hand of sociopathic/crazy children to american families all the time. something had to happen for the final straw. this child tried to kill her mother. don’t be ignorant to think all children are innocent. that is no child….that is a b0rn schizophrenic. i am not insensitive…you don’t know the situation like I do. don’t be fooled into believing everything you read. they knew he was coming. she sought help as well.
This story is not false. Some media outlets report she has a son named Logan, some say it is her nephew. The grandmother says that her daughter “spoke” to psychologists on the phone but never took him to see one. That’s not helping a child. If you’re sick you go to the doctor, if you have a toothache you go to the dentist, if you have psychological problems you go to a therapist. Torry Hansen is back peddling and letting her mama do all the talking. If she’s so innocent, she needs to be an adult and speak to the authorities. Not write notes and send a child back to authorities who weren’t aware of his arrival.
No, I haven’t heard never adopt a child from Russia, give me a break. If this is true, why did the Hansen’s adopt from there and why weren’t they allowed to adopt in the states? There are plenty of foster children that need good homes. What are the Hansen’s hiding? This woman has a master’s degree, quit hiding behind Mommy’s skirt and speak to the police.
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This question is to “Nicole”. Did you know the family? Were you there when it happened? So, you are a first-hand witness to this stuff? And, regardless of whether he really had a psychological disorder, he was still just A 7-YEAR-OLD CHILD. If Torry Hansen really tried to get help for him, she would have had help for him. What about WACAP? If she were having problems, she could have went there as well. So, if Torry had beaten this little guy to death I suppose you’d stand there and say it was the little boy’s fault and not hers,right? Unless you were a direct witness to what happened, I’d say you really have no clue. Regardless, we’re talking about two ADULT, GROWN women and one very small, 7 YEAR-OLD little boy. It’s pathetic that you would even try and stand up for either of these women. It’s people like you who stand around and justify child abuse and say nothing until the child is killed by the abusive parent/family. Then you claim the killer is the innocent one. Pathetic
I feel for this woman and her family. However she should never have been allowed to adopt in the first place as a single woman. This poor kid needs psychological help that she was unprepared to offer, financially perhaps. Raising a severely emotionally disturbed child is difficult enough when it’s your child and nearly impossible in a single parent household. I support her decision to send the boy back. I hope for his sake that he gets the help he needs in his home country.
With all the publicity he’s getting I’m sure he’ll find a good home with people willing and able to give him the care he needs. It’s good that this woman realized she could not care for him and sent him back to Russia, because now they can both get on with their lives.
It’s too bad that this family is facing all this hostile publicity. They DO have other children and they are certainly entitled to their privacy. I don’t feel this is a public matter, and I find it fascinating that there was not a single word today in the news about the Polish president dying in a plane crash and that every story I saw in the evening news seemed to consist of this russian kid or Tiger Woods.
There is no way out for the mother. She asked for a NON-high-risk child for adoption with no health and mental issues and she was given a damaged child by the adoption agency without warning. Obviously, she did not know how to handle a violent child who spits at her, attempted to burn some papers in the bedroom and fantasizes about burning her house down killing the entire adoptive family. The adoption agency usually has no return and no exchange deals. The department of health services will probably not deal with the child as in a similar case like hers before. If she goes to a doctor or psychologist, the boy will probably claim he was abused by her, thus she gets arrested. The mother was doomed the minute she unknowingly adopted the damaged child. There is no way out. Either she and her family get killed by the child or she becomes the criminal by abandoning the child or accused by the child of abuse. When you give someone a violent child, you are only turning the unknowing adoptive parent into a CRIMINAL. 100% guaranteed.
PLEASE! This is a 7 year old boy,not a grown man. If the child is that disturbed and you’re the adoptive parent, the minimum responsibility is getting a doctor’s opinion about his condition. If he is that “psychotic” how dare she stick the child on a plane with 275 helpless passengers on a 15 hour flight, not notifying anyone about his emotional issues. For all we know, Torry made the story up, maybe the child was acting out because he was being abused by the mother.
Torry Hansen is NOT the victim, the child is the victim. He didn’t ask to be adopted, she brought him home. You would think she would have had a local family doctor check him out, take him to a local dentist to care for his teeth and enroll him in school to help him adapt to his new environment.
Torry is the adult, not the child. It’s her responsibility to care for the child. If she cannot, she should have at least flown back with him to Russia and returned him to the orphanage she got him from. That was her minimum moral obligation. Completely ridiculous what she did.
I hope she is found and be punished for what she did. Her son Logan is in bad hands, child services should take him away from this evil woman. My heart goes out to poor little boy, God be with him.
Ever heard of refurbishing. The children with RAD, fetal alcohol syndrome, mental issues, violent tendencies should not be put up for adoption until the state treats them. If the adoption agency give damaged violent children to unsuspecting adoptive parents, you are only going to turn these parents into CRIMINALS.
I have a friend that adopted a boy from Russia from an unwed teenage mother who was hooked on drugs. I have watched my friends child grow up and he is one of the most deviant and meanest kids I have ever seen. When he was 4 years old, he would threaten anyone he didn’t like. It got so I stopped visiting because this little russian boy made me want to knock him out. He would curse at me under his breath where his mom and dad couldn’t hear it. Have you folks ever seen the movie “The Bad Seed”? Some kids can be born inherently Evil and I am convinced of that after seeing how my friend’s kid behaves. He bullies kids twice his age since he’s so intelligent and evil. He truly is a little bastard. If he were mine, I would put his ass back on a plane to Russia too.
I think the issue the world has with Torry Hansen is not getting the 7 year old boy the help he needed. Not contacting the adoption agency to say “I give up.” Not contacting local authorities, not contacting the orphanage she adopted the child from. Not seeking therapy, or visiting her local church, etc. She should have boarded a plane with him back to Moscow to return him to the orphanage, or turned him over to Child Services in Nashville so they could get him the proper care he needed. What she did was cruel, callous, abusive and criminal. She’s an adult and obviously lacks the maturity to deal with children. Does she treat her patients in a hospital the same way? She should face criminal charges, she obviously has some problems herself.
The child is a sociopath. Just as with adult sociopaths, there is no effective treatment or cure. It’s sad but true. The people who think he was a sweet, innocent little boy have never met a sociopathic child. They are violent, they start fires, they sexually abuse other children. The woman did the right thing. She’s a nurse. She obviously recognized sociopathy. She didn’t want to raise the next Ted Bundy. Very sad for her. The kid doesn’t care. He cannot attach to anyone emotionally anyway.
Well said Robin Brown. You hit the nail on the head.
If Torry Hansen believes she (and her mother) did nothing wrong, why is she refusing to speak to authorities? And to those on this board who think she did nothing wrong, would your feelings be different if that boy had been her biological son? Or does the fact that he was adopted make him any less human and deserving of humane treatment?
The woman in question never contacted child and/or familt social services. When the adoption agency visited the boy in his home with the adopted mother in January of 2010, the mother (Torry Hansen) claimed that everything was fine and was still very much enthusiastic. When the adoption agency tried in late March of 2010 to again check up on the child, the agency were unable to contact Torry Hansen or her mother. If the child was so very disturbed, why did she endanger 275 other passengers on the United Airlines plane for an 18-hour flight to Moscow. Yes, the flight is eighteen hours. How do I know? I bought a very expensive show dog from a Russian breeder in the Moscow region. What an exquisitely beautiful dog with a very impressive pedigree. Hey, if Torry Hansen couln’t even take care of and manage a 7-year-old boy with some psychological issues, can you imagine her trying to socialize and train a very dominant, giant-breed, intact male Black Russian Terrier dog? My friends adopted two Russian boys from a Russia. The older one, an extremely handsome, intelligent child had some problems with the law, when he stole or beat somebody up. Who knows? Anyway, this child received the help he needed. He’s really a great child, who is now in boarding school. Why is he in boarding school? He doesn’t like his parents. Actually, I don’t blame him, because I personally cannot stand the mother. If I had to live with that woman 24/7, I would go crazy and act out too. Hey, what child doesn’t act out? Have you ever seen toddlers, kicking and screaming, being dragged out of a store, because the child was not able to get what they wanted. Usually a child is socialized just like a dog from the very beginning. Children from an institutional setting are not going to receive this early socialization for obvious reasons. So when the socialization process does begin, the child is already seven to nine years old. Obviously, socializing an older child is just that much more difficult and challenging, but not impossible. All children demand a parent make extreme sacrifices. If an adult does not want to make these extreme sacrifices, then don’t have children! When a child feels mistreated and abused, he and/or she will act out and make all kinds of threats without exception. Haven’t you heard of children kicking the family pet or kicking huge holes in the wall, when they go into fits of rage out of frustration and feeling not loved enough? I never heard of the perfectly behaved child. If a child behaves in perfect, ideal fashion, then that child is not normal. A perfectly behaved, wonderful child is a serial murder in the making. Normal children act out; it’s part of the normal process of development. Puppies bite and attack their new owners to test the ground and learn about themselves and their human owners. If you can’t handle a child like the Russian 7-year old, do not get a large-breed dog.