Sheriff: Texas mom said adopted 3-year-old son from Russia was playing outside before he died
Published February 20, 2013
Associated Press
LUBBOCK, Texas – A Texas woman has told sheriff's deputies that her 3-year-old adopted son from Russia was playing outside with his younger brother before she found the boy unresponsive.
Ector County Sheriff Mark Donaldson said Wednesday that dead boy's mother told deputies that she was inside the family's home outside of Odessa on Jan. 21 and came out to find Max Alan Shatto on the ground. He said deputies arrived at the home of Alan and Laura Shatto home as the ambulance was leaving with Max. The boy was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The medical examiner's office said it couldn't immediately be determined if bruises on Max's body were intentional or accidental.
Russian authorities have blamed Max's death on "inhuman treatment" by the adopted parents.
10 comments:
I try not to jump to conclusions, but I have to wonder if this boy was playing outside unsupervised. If so, why?
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Has this scenario played out before?
Russian/Romanian orphan - attachment problems - parents unprepared and frustrated?
Really???
"Inhuman treatment"...
Russian authorities SHOULD know all about "inhuman treatment" considering how appalling the conditions are at state-run orphanages in the former Soviet Bloc nations.
Maybe Russian officials should avoid inflammatory statements about this boy's adoptive parents until, IDK... his cause of death is determined?
What will make this really miserable is if abuse is found. That could stop so many good parents from adopting children away from the horrors of Russian orphanages. )-:
The Bossman in Russia cut off all adoptions going to USA. I think it was in News a month ago. He made remarks about Americans sexually abusing the children, killing them, and using them for boytoys for our serviceman, and putting them in the frontline in combat if they later joined the armed service....
My thoughts exactly.
Hello Pot says:
"Russian authorities SHOULD know all about "inhuman treatment" considering how appalling the conditions are at state-run orphanages in the former Soviet Bloc nations."
My sister adopted 2 children from Russia. One boy, one girl. Boys are put in "warehouse" orphanages. Girls are treated better in orphanages. Circumstances of Kolja and Julia were totally different. Kolja came from a "survival of the fittest" scenario, whereas Julia came from a more nurtured environment. I will not get into their personal circumstance of how they both ended up in orphanages. Russian adoption employs an accepted form of adoption extortion. "Damaged" children are discounted and if you are an acceptable family for adoption you are required to "pay" (i.e. donation) the orphanage a certain amount of money. There is a lot of money exchanged on various levels (and at certain intervals), despite my family going through a legitimate adoption agency.
My sister and her husband were not qualified to adopted from U.S., due to their age and the fact they had 2 bio children. They live in CA. CA has one of the strictest adoption policies in place in the U.S. It took years for them to be able to legally say "These are our children, they are U.S. citizens."
This is political. Not the boy's death, of course, but Russia's response to it. There is an active smear campaign going on in Russia about how horrible all American parents are. They are picking the worst examples of adoptees being abused and claiming that this is how all Americans treat adopted Russian children. It's pretty sick, really. And while I do thing that too many adoptive parents are not prepared to deal with the severe special needs that Russian orphans have, they have these needs because Russia is completely failing at caring for its own needy children. So closing the door to American adoptions, instead of doing more to screen, educate, and prepare potential adoptive parents for the children's unique special needs, is going to make the problem exponentially worse. But it seems that children are expendable when it comes to scoring political points.
http://adoption.about.com/od/parenting/a/russian_adoption_problems_mulligan_interview.htm
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