14 year old girl from India placed with family in Massachusetts was returned to India 2 yrs after arriving in the US.

Date: 2010-01-01

Location

Massachusetts
United States

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Alexandra Austin was 9 years old, when an Ontario couple convinced her mother to let them adopt her and take her to Canada, in 1991. After five months, the couple sent the girl back to Romania where she ended up in legal limbo. Authorities there refused to recognize the newly named Austin as a Romanian while Ottawa said she did not have Canadian citizenship either.

By 2009, Alexandra and her 2 children were granted Canadian citizenship.

Date: 1991-01-01

Location

Ancaster, Ontario
Canada

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Date: 2012-11-01

Location

Næstved
Denmark

Seven-year-old boy, adopted from Russia by Torry Ann Hansen, in 2009, was sent to Moscow by his adoptive mother. The boy was put on an airplane without any supervision, with a note for the Russian Ministry of Education, stating the adoptive mother returned the boy to Russian guardianship and wants to see the adoption annulled.

Date: 2010-04-08

Location

Shelbyville, Tennessee
United States

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Preteen boy adopted from Liberia is returned to the orphanage 6 months post adoption.

Date: 2009-01-01

Adopted from Russia by Donnie and Tedi Hedstrom. Placement disrupted and whereabouts unknown.

Location

Florida
United States

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Anita Tedaldi Doberman and her husband adopted a boy, about 1 year old from Ethiopia (not South America as the blog says). After 1.5 years, they disrupted the adoption and found a new home for the boy due to parental attachment issues.

Date: 2009-08-26

Location

Emerald Coast, Florida
United States

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8-year-old girl adopted from Russia by Peter and Denise Thomas was tried to be sold by her adoptive parents over the internet because they were not capable of handling her and wanted to recoup some of the money spent adopting her.

Date: 1999-05-20

Location

Arapahoe County, Colorado
United States

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7-year-old girl, adopted at birth by Craig and Lori Gertz, was placed with a foster care family in Washington State, because of alleged behavioral problems.

Date: 2010-07-08

Location

Long Grove, Illinois
United States

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Emily adopted from China in 1996 by multimillionaires John and Christine Svenningsen was disrupted in 2004 after because she 'was a difficult child and unable to bond with the family'.
Father John had died of cancer in 1997.
Eric adopted from China around 1997 by then widow Christine was disrupted shortly after 'because she couldn't handle 7 children'.

Svenningsens had 5 bio children, the last who was born shortly after Emily was adopted.

Date: 1997-01-01

Location

Westchester, New York
United States

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Four children including one girl and three boys from Ukraine were adopted from an orphanage near Kiev in 2001. The three boys are siblings.

In 2003, at the age of 13, the girl became pregnant, claiming the father was her adopted brother. She was moved to the Liberty God Parents Home, where she delivered the baby, which was subsequently placed for adoption.

At the time a new adoptive home was sought for her. One of the boys was in foster care system at the time of the pregnancy and was expected to be sent back to Ukraine. What happened to the other boys is unknown.

Date: 2003-03-09

Location

xx
United States

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Following an adoption by American parents, Gabor, also known as Gabriel Petrosino, was taken back to Hungary and left at an orphanage.

Date: 1998-03-01

Location

Wilton, Connecticut
United States

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2 girls from Ethiopia adopted by Joyce Maynard

Found by nuns on a street in Pusan Korea, she was placed in a Catholic orphanage until 1963 when at age 2, she was sent to the US to be adopted. At 4 years old, after her adoptive parents-to-be learned she was mentally retarded, her adoption paperwork was stopped. For 13 years after that, she was shuffled among foster homes and institutions, including 3 years in a Kentucky nursing home.

Date: 1962-12-29

Location

Unknown
United States

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In 1997, Inga was adopted by Neal and Cilla Whatcott at age 12 from St. Petersburg, Russia. The placing agency was Nightlight Christian Adoptions. Inga had already been placed with two Russian families who returned her to the orphanage. Once home, she displayed increasingly violent behavior and was moved to a family in Maryland. The family asked to have her removed from their care and she was moved to two different families and finally to a psychiatric facility in Michigan. She was diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder, major depression disorder with psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder.  The Whatcott's were charged with child abandonment and Inga was then placed with three more foster families before being placed in an institution.  According to news articles, in 2000 the Whatcott's dissolved the adoption of Inga. They were able to maintain contact with her after the dissolution.

Date: 2000-01-01

Location

St. Petersburg
Russia

7-year-old girl adopted by Dutch diplomat Raymond Poeteray and his wife Meta was surrendered to the Hong Kong social welfare department for readoption, reportedly because the child could not adapt to Dutch culture.

Date: 2007-12-10

Location

Hong Kong

Following an adoption by an American family, Jeremy Harper also known as Karoly, was returned to an orphanage in Hungary.

Date: 1998-01-01

Location

Connecticut
United States

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Linda, Michael and Jeffrey were placed with Judith and Robert Garber in 1979 at ages 9, 7 and 6. Despite repeated requests, Robert and Judith were not given detailed social histories or medical records on the children until 10 years post adoption when they received information on 1 child indicating that prior to placement intensive counseling had been recommended. Linda had been sexually abused by her biological father. A younger sibling was murdered for crying. Jeff and Linda attempted suicide, Michael plotted to kill his parents and all 3 were placed in psychiatric hospitals for some period of time.

Date: 1986-01-01

Location

Olean, New York
United States

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17-year-old boy adopted from Romania was adopted by a Vermont couple at the age of 15. His adoptive parents dissolved the adoption when he acted out sexually.

Date: 2000-07-01

Location

Vermont
United States

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Date: 1999-01-01

Location

Indiana
United States

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9-year-old Russian girl from Borovichi, Novgorod, adopted by Crystal and Jesse Money from the State of Georgia was returned to Moscow by her adoptive parents because they could not cope with her.

The Moneys, claimed they were not fully alerted to Samantha's condition by the adoption agency, which gave them a glowing account of the girl's personality despite evidence of mental retardation.

Date: 2000-02-01

Location

Georgia
United States

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15-month-old twins, Sasha and Masha, adopted by a dual citizenship Russian-American woman, Anna S, were found abandoned on a Russian street in sub-zero temperatures with only a note saying she didn’t want them anymore.
The woman reportedly lied about her US citizenship and the fact that she was married to an American. When the authorities discovered this they demanded the adoptive mother give details of the man, and provide his consent to caring for the children. Soon after this, the children were found abandoned

Date: 2012-03-12

Location

St Petersburg, St. Petersburg
Russia

"Sasha" was adopted in Ukraine at age 7 by Minnesota couple Jeffrey and Michelle Bignell. After two years, the Bignells transferred custody to Glenda and David Kinghorn (see: Girl in care of David Kinghorn) who ultimately placed Sasha in an Arkansas psychiatric hospital where he was diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder. Jeff Bignell removed Sasha from the hospital and took him back to Donets'k Ukraine where he was also hospitalized.
Sasha was returned to Minnesota by county CPS and placed in Northwood Children's Services home.

Date: 2003-04-01

Location

Lakeland, Minnesota
United States

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Shannon Aumock was born to a sixteen-year-old mother, a victim of sexual assault, and was placed into foster care when she was 3. " Shannon was adopted at that age by a Flagstaff family who later lived in Scottsdale, but because of what they said were “uncontrollable behavioral issues,” gave her back to CPS when she was 12."

She later went missing from state care at age 16 and was never reported missing. She was found murdered.

Location

Tempe, Arizona
United States

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Indonesian boy adopted at 2-months by Joe and Lala Dowse was sent back to his mother land at the age of two after the adoptive couple were expecting a child of their own.

Date: 2003-01-01

Location

Wicklow, Wicklow
Ireland

8-year-old boy adopted from Russia by Mary Perdue, was unbeknownst to the adopter so emotionally disturbed, she dissolved the adoption.

Date: 2005-10-05

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa
United States

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