A seven-year-old boy has been returned by plane to Moscow from the US by his adoptive mother with a note saying she 'could not handle him'.
The note attached to the boy said his adoptive mother could not care for the boy any longer and was very sorry, but had to send him back.
Torri-Ann Hansen adopted the boy six months ago.
Until then he had lived in the orphanage of Partizansk in Russia's Primorsk region. Reportedly he was a well-behaved, healthy boy and never caused any problems.
At Moscow airport this morning, the boy was taken to a central Moscow police station, but then was taken to a hospital for medical examination. He was said to be in a state of shock.
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