{"id":3358,"date":"2013-02-20T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2013-02-20T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:57:57","slug":"russia-worried-orphan-harmed-by-lesbian-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/russia-worried-orphan-harmed-by-lesbian-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia worried orphan ‘harmed by lesbian couple’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Agence France-Presse
\nFebruary 20, 2013
\n(Globalpost\/GlobalPost)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Unlike some US states, Russia does not recognise same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n

When the two women broke up in 2009, they began a legal battle over the custody of Yegor, Dolgov said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“He was sucked into an argument over a relationship that was quite dubious from the moral point of view,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We believe that Yegor’s situation is unacceptable and harmful to his psychological health,” he said, adding that the San Francisco consulate was not granted access to the boy.<\/p>\n

Russia has long complained about the treatment of Russian orphans adopted by American parents and in December controversially passed a law banning adoptions of Russian children by Americans.<\/p>\n

 
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