Russia worried orphan ‘harmed by US lesbian couple’
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 20, 2013 20:43
Russia expressed “serious worry” Wednesday over the fate of a Russian boy adopted by an American woman who did not reveal that she is a lesbian, Moscow’s latest broadside in a growing war of words over adoption.
The ministry’s human rights envoy Konstantin Dolgov said the situation in which the boy was placed under his new American family subjected him to conditions “harmful to his psychological health”.
The statement by Moscow is the second this week concerning the fate of a Russian child and comes two days after Russian authorities accused a Texas couple of murdering three-year-old Maksim Kuzmin.
In the latest case of alleged mistreatment of Russian adoptees, the Russian foreign ministry accused a US woman of bringing a Russian boy into a lesbian partnership.
The woman, identified in Russian as Marcia Ann Brandt, was “living in a same-sex marriage with a Beth Chapman,” but chose to hide this information when she adopted Yegor Shatabalov in 2007, said Dolgov.
Unlike some US states, Russia does not recognise same-sex marriages.
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