Adoptee Deaths Rare, Experts Say; 12 Russian Cases Troubling, Puzzling. Russell Working.
by Working, Russell; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 76Family. Publisher: Chicago Tribune, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Adopted children | Adoption -- Russia (Federation) | Adoptive parents | Behavior disorders in children | Child abuse | Children -- Death | Emotional problems of children | Fetal alcohol syndrome | Intercountry adoptionDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In some cases, the children lasted only a few months in their new country. Luke Evans, 16 months, died six months after he arrived in the United States. His adopted mother, Natalie Fabian Evans of Lowell, Ind., is accused of shaking him to death. In other cases, they survived a little longer. Yana and Anatoli Kolenda, both 11, died in 2002--nearly five years after their arrival in America--when their adoptive father stabbed them and his wife to death at their home in Westfield, Mass., then fatally shot himself. Circumstances differ widely in the deaths of 12 Russian adoptees whose parents have been accused of killing them in the past eight years, ranging from what prosecutors portray as flashes of rage to abuse that spanned weeks." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article examines some of these cases where adopted children from foreign orphanages have been killed by parents unable to deal with problems "ranging from fetal alcohol syndrome to emotional disorders."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Adoptee Deaths Rare, Experts Say; 12 Russian Cases Troubling, Puzzling, May 27, 2004; pp. n.p..
"In some cases, the children lasted only a few months in their new country. Luke Evans, 16 months, died six months after he arrived in the United States. His adopted mother, Natalie Fabian Evans of Lowell, Ind., is accused of shaking him to death. In other cases, they survived a little longer. Yana and Anatoli Kolenda, both 11, died in 2002--nearly five years after their arrival in America--when their adoptive father stabbed them and his wife to death at their home in Westfield, Mass., then fatally shot himself. Circumstances differ widely in the deaths of 12 Russian adoptees whose parents have been accused of killing them in the past eight years, ranging from what prosecutors portray as flashes of rage to abuse that spanned weeks." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article examines some of these cases where adopted children from foreign orphanages have been killed by parents unable to deal with problems "ranging from fetal alcohol syndrome to emotional disorders."
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