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Mr. Savelyev, Meet Dr. Laura

An adoption scandal's local aftermath

by Rochel Urist

posted 8/28/2010

The return of seven-year-old Artyom Savelyev to Russia rocked the international adoption community. Torry Ann Hansen, a single woman from Tennessee, adopted the boy last September from an orphanage in the Russian Far East, renaming him Justin Hansen. But on April 8, overwhelmed by what she called his "violent and severe psychopathic issues," she put him on a

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