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and now we turn to a story that challenges our ideas about foreign adoption parental responsibilities and what you do if you're desperate a tennessee mother has returned the seven-year-old son she adopted from russia sending him back alone and now outraged Russian officials want to halt adoptions to u.s. families period juju Chang on this wrenching dilemma he arrived in Moscow Thursday alone and exhausted after flying halfway around the world bewildered seven-year-old Artem Savelyev swarmed by cameras sparking international outrage he carried this note from his adopted mother back in Tennessee I adopted this child wrote 32 year old single mother Tori Hansen he is violent and has severe psychopathic issues I was lied to and misled by the Russian orphanage and after giving my best to this child I'm sorry to say that for the safety of my family and myself I no longer wish to parent this child Hansen adopted Artem six months ago but her family says the boy's hitting kicking spitting began to escalate he drew pictures of the family's house on fire so this week the boy's adoptive grandmother flew him from his home in Shelbyville Tennessee to Washington checked him in as an unaccompanied minor and sent him off alone on the 10-hour flight to Moscow today Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told ABC's George Stephanopoulos the incident is both illegal and immoral on the part of the his adoptive parents take the kid and virtually throw him over the plane and Medvedev noted that more than fifteen Russian children have been killed in recent years by their adoptive American parents parents like Peggy Sue hilt who's serving 17 years in prison for beating to death her two-year-old daughter Nina from Siberia I didn't mean to hurt her adoption lawyers say young Artyom story is a truly unusual case of child abandonment Americans adopt 1,600 Russian children every year adoption is not child rental this woman is was responsible for the kid for the rest of his life Joyce Erkel has worked for 15 years with Russian born children whose adoptions are deeply troubled there's a certain percentage of these children who are adopted that are severely impaired if they were adults we would call them sociopaths now this boy has told Russian officials that his adoptive mother was abusive and pulled his hair in the US State Department has asked a Tennessee sheriff to investigate but so far Diane the mother has not been questioned there been no charges I know you're going to explore these issues further tonight on Nightline be sure to see more of Juju's reporting and tell us what you think about it all weigh in at our website abcnews.com