Lawyer: Woman in court over Russian adoption

Lawyer: Woman in court over Russian adoption

LEWISBURG - The woman who ended her Russian adoption by sending the 7-year-old boy to Moscow on a plane by himself is scheduled to appear in a Tennessee court.

Attorney Ed Yarbrough said his client, Torry Hansen, will attend a hearing Friday in Lewisburg to ask Judge Lee Russell to reconsider his order that she pay $150,000 in child support. It will be her first court appearance in the case, which for a time led Russia to halt adoptions by U.S. parents.

Hansen was living in Tennessee when she returned Artyom Saveliev in 2010 with a letter saying she didn't want to be his mother. He's now living in a group home in a Moscow suburb.

The World Association for Children and Parents adoption agency sued Hansen for child support.

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