Google translation from Russian

U.S. social workers confirm that Maxim Kuzmin died because of domestic abuse - Astakhov

Ombudsman for Children Pavel Astakhov has found new evidence that adopted from Russia Maxim Kuzmin was killed in the U.S. caused by the adoptive parents. According to him, a social worker from Texas, told him that the boy was a victim of abuse in foster care.

February 28, 2013, 12:29

Texas Officials Deny Kremlin Account of Adopted Child Death
Topic: US Adoption Ban

Maxim Kuzmin, adopted by US natives Alan and Laura Shatto and found dead in their house in Texas Maxim Kuzmin, adopted by US natives Alan and Laura Shatto and found dead in their house in Texas

Attorney: Shattos did not kill child
Adopted Russian boy’s death still under investigation
Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 2:45 am
BY JON VANDERLAAN jvanderlaan@oaoa.com

“They’ve been getting phone calls from people calling them baby killers, and that’s just a nightmare,” local defense attorney Michael J. Brown said about Alan and Laura Shatto.

Toddler death stirs Russian polemic over US adoption
By Daniel Sandford
BBC News, Moscow

Tuesday's meeting between the new US Secretary of State John Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov comes at the lowest point in the countries' relationship since President Obama first took office.

The "reset" was knocked badly off course by disagreements over the conflicts in Libya and Syria. Then, during last year's protests, Russia accused America of interfering in its domestic politics.

Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 2:45 am
Odessa American oanews@oaoa.com
Posted on February 26, 2013
by Odessa American

The Ector County Sheriff’s Department distributed a news release Monday stating the department will continue to wait for the final autopsy results before releasing information in a case that’s captured international headlines.

Ohio child rapist: ‘I always wanted to protect kids’

Experts say case of adoptive father very unusual

By Dan Sewell | ASSOCIATED PRESS FEBRUARY 25, 2013

TROY, Ohio — The one-story, brick ranch-style home blends into the working-class neighborhood along Nutmeg Square in this western Ohio city, offering no signs of the terrible secrets it once concealed.

Agency involved in dead Russian boy's adoption on hot seat
Death of Russian boy, 3, has Texas officials looking for the possibility of abuse
By Terri Langford | February 25, 2013 | Updated: February 25, 2013 10:32pm

The Fort Worth agency that handled the international adoption of a three-year-old Russian boy who died in West Texas last month is under investigation by Texas licensing officials, the Houston Chronicle learned Monday.

February 22, 2013
All Eyes On Texas Town At Center Of Russian Adoption Drama
by Richard Solash

GARDENDALE, Texas -- Waldrop Drive used to be a road that even the locals hardly noticed. It is unpaved and uninhabited, except for a single house far at the end. Tumbleweed collects here, driven across the surrounding oil fields by a whipping wind. The street sign is barely legible, long faded by the Texas sun.

Morning Show → Russian Embassy Revives Interest in 2011 Adoptee Death
Tags: Culture, Russia, adoption ban, News, US, Russian adoptions, William Allan Butler, Andrew Arthur Butler
Crystal Park
Feb 22, 2013 09:48 Moscow Time

WASHINGTON -- The controversy surrounding the Russian ban on US adoptions has renewed interest in a case from 2011.

Voice of Russia's Crystal Park talks with Dmitri Babich:

Google translate
TFR promises to punish those responsible for the deaths of Americans orphans from Russia

Investigative Committee of Russia brings to justice all Americans responsible for the deaths of children adopted from Russia and to avoid punishment in the U.S.. This promised Thursday the head of TFR Alexander Bastrykin in college departments.

The US adoptive mother of Russian-born Max Shatto says the dead three-year-old was playing outside before she found him unresponsive, Texas officials say.

Russia's top investigative body has opened a murder inquiry into the case, which comes after Russia banned US adoptions, citing previous deaths.

Max Shatto - whose Russian name is Maxim Kuzmin - died on 21 January.

Texas officials say they are still investigating the death, and no arrests have been made.

Court hears of Russian orphan's sad life
By David Clarkson

A Russian adopted from an orphanage at age two had become a “one man crime spree” in New Zealand, a judge commented as he jailed the 22-year-old for his latest offending.

The Christchurch District Court sentencing session heard about the sad life of Alexei Nickavick Kelly who is struggling with drugs and alcohol, authority issues, and low self-esteem.

“Alcohol is clearly a way of screening out the loss of his parents,” said defence counsel Clare Yardley.

Ukrainians outraged as US dad shoots adopted Ukrainian boy

Tags: Society, Opinion & Analysis, World, Ukraine, child adoption
Feb 22, 2013 18:39 Moscow Time

By: Jenne Anderson

GARDENDALE-- The death of 3 year-old Max Shatto is making headlines all over the world.

Russian officials claim the boy's adoptive parents, Laura and Allen Shatto from Gardendale, are to blame.

Although the autopsy results are not in, several international media outlets say Max was given Risperdal, which is used to treat schizophrenia.

While the medication may seem too harsh for a toddler, local medical experts say it's not unusual of to see it prescribed to children.

by Jon Vanderlaan

An ambulance pulled up to an unassuming Gardendale home in the mid-afternoon Jan. 21, shortly after two children were playing in the yard.

One of the boys was on the ground, and would die about an hour later at Medical Center Hospital.

Sheriff Mark Donaldson said his deputies arrived to the home in Gardendale at 16097 North Waldrop Ave. home as the ambulance was leaving with Max Alan Shatto, a 3-year-old adopted Russian boy who was pronounced dead at 5:43 p.m. by a Medical Center Hospital emergency room doctor.