Texas Stinks in New Russian Adoptees’ Abuse Case-Michael and Penny Deckert UPDATED

This is the CPS incompetence case of the decade and it involves Texas CPS; a concerned licensed LPC who runs a home for abused children who has been championing the cause for these children SINCE 2008; and a blogger/website operator, Kyle Keeton, from Windows to Russia who has been championing the cause for SIX MONTHS of three abused Russian children who were adopted in 2002.

As usual, Russia only heard of this case recently. Russian media is the first media source to cover the case. As of yesterday, two of the children remain in the home. One has run away.

Windows to Russia publicly breaks the story on June 11, 2012 in this post http://windowstorussia.com/three-more-adopted-children-from-russia-being-abused-in-america.html that had yet to name names.

He updates things on Wednesday June 20, 2012 after he assists in getting the story into The Voice of Russia article http://windowstorussia.com/update-three-abused-russian-adopted-children-texas-usa.html Awesome work!

Russian Article

Here is the interview:

“So, tell us about these three children in Texas?

I first met the children when I was sent by Child Protective Services to spend time with them and to do an interview, because numerous reports of abuse have been made. I went to their home in August in 2008 and talked to the 3 children and documented information from them and then I returned this information to Child Protective Services. I had a concern immediately because little response was made and the children weren’t removed from the home which concerned me because the abuse was the worst type of child abuse I’ve ever seen: the conditions were deplorable and things that were being done to the children were outrageous. And actually child abuse is against the law as you know, but in my experience I found that often times instead of legal action being taken civil servants were sent to take care of the situation and the philosophy in Texas is that the children should remain with parents if at all possible, I agree with that. But sometimes it goes too far and when children are in danger we have a responsibility to protect them. These three Russian children don’t have any extended family in Texas and so I was unable to give them the help they needed. Over the years the children repeatedly ran away from the home and they oldest child has been missing now for about a week and the two younger children ran away this past Sunday, they were found on Thursday and returned to their home. There is another CPS case that’s been open. This has been going on since they arrived in America in 2002.

What types of abuse were you seeing?

Oh, god. When I talked to a little boy, he had his teeth broken and I asked him about that he told me his adoptive mother had hit him in the mouth with a shoe. Also he was undernourished, he was 12 years old and he weight about 58-60 pounds and I know that because we weight him at some point at the children’s home. He was being denied food occasionally, he was punished by not receiving food and he was often times locked in a room with a bucket to use as a toilet. There was a mattress in the room and on the floor. I saw this, I went to his home. And he said sometimes they left a mattress for him to sleep on and sometimes they dragged it out of the room and he had to sleep on the floor. When child abuse reports were being made and numerous reports were made by many people and I have names and numbers of at least 2 dozen people who made reports from 2002 to this current day, it was very difficult for me to speak to the child and hear these awful things that were being done to him. It just broke my heart.

And when you see these types of things happening and continue to happen, who do you put the blame on? Is it the adoption agency, is it the state of Texas, of course, the parents, but when you try to get things to have changed where do you see to be the root of the problem?

I think the problem is in part the lack of requirements of the adoption agencies. Post-adoption services are very important, once children are placed, someone needs to go into the home periodically to make sure that everything’s ok. It’s partly because the adoption agency doesn’t have strong outlines and it’s partially could be because at a home study that wasn’t done carefully enough, Child Protective Services in Texas, like I said, have a philosophy of leaving children in the home when at all possible and sometimes they just carry that too far and they do family safety services. So, first thing they did, I guess, after they were involved in the case, the adoptive mother had to leave the home and so she left for about 6 weeks and then returned. Things like that don’t actually solve any problems when there are more abuses of the two.

We saw that as many as hundred thousand Russian children have been adopted by foreigners since the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago and fewer than 20 of them have died as a result of negligence or abuse. So, when we look at this case as tragic as it is, do you think it’s more just a horrible tragedy of one particular family abusing these children rather than a symptom of something larger?

I think most children who were adopted by Americans are in wonderful homes and I know some families who have adopted Russian children and they are in just fabulous situation. I think that just like there is abuse of American children in the United States, occasionally children who are adopted from other countries fall into some of these unfortunate situations. This particular situation we are talking about, I don’t think is typical. I was really surprised that I was unable to find anyone to protect the children and I turned to detective services and the law enforcement and I was unable to get any help for the kids. The boy, the oldest boy who was 12 at the time, he is now 16, continued to run away repeatedly and to stay in the woods several neighbors helped him to come in, gave him a place to stay. Each time he was found and returned. He was in the children’s home, I ran the home for abused children, I had him 4 times and 6th time he ran away I took him here to Child Protective Services in the state because I was unable to attain help for him locally. So, I went to the top and I had full confidence that they would resolve the situation and take care of these children but that didn’t happen.

What do you think the role of the Russian government should be in this particular case?

I think that Russian government should enforce any law, I don’t know the laws they have, but if they have any law, any requirement, any even recent things that have been agreed upon between Russia and the United States, any improvements that have been made since 2002 when these children were adopted, I think that should be retroactive and that someone should be able to go into the home and talk to the children, the two who are still there.

Speaking of that, the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security announced back in July 2011 that there was bilateral agreement about adoptive children and cooperation to strengthen safeguards between Russia and the United States. The agreement provides the safeguards to protect the welfare of children and the agreement also designs to improve post-adoption reporting and monitoring to insure that perspective adoptive parents can receive more complete information about adoptive children’s social and medical histories and anticipated needs. What do you make of that agreement and do you see any ramifications of that agreement in this particular case?

The things you’ve just mentioned are wonderful and necessary. I think we’ll go a long way in preventing situations like this in the future. I am hopeful that those stipulations can be applied to these children. The children I am speaking about were adopted in 2002 before these new regulations were put into place but since the children are still underage, I think those regulations you just told me about should apply to all underage children in America and not just the children who are being adopted in the future.

You mentioned that this case is still fluid. Where do you think it stands now and what do you think is going to happen in the future? I guess the oldest child is going to be an adult in 2 years. What do you see things happening from here?

With these particular children?

Correct.

There is an new CPS, Child Protective Services, a new CPS case was opened I think sometime last week. The investigator has, I believe 10-14 days to gather information and to make a determination. The problem with this situation is right now, that the two children are still in the abusive home, are afraid to say anything because in the past they’ve told the truth to Child Protective Services and they weren’t removed. So, they have been put in a more dangerous situation and if they are being asked questions and if they are not taken out from home, they are afraid to talk about the things that have been done in the home because when the Child Protective Services worker leaves, then the children stay with their adoptive parents. The oldest child, the one who is missing right now, was very brave and he always told the truth and he told to anyone who would listen to him and he bagged for help and asked for help. In 2008 when I met him, he has been asking for help for quite sometime and I don’t know if I mentioned the children were taken out of public school and were kept in home for about 2,5 years because school authorities were calling Child Protective Services. The children weren’t allowed to leave the home, the windows were boarded up with plywood. And after I met them, some changes were made and the children were in public school but they were under strict instruction cause the adoptive parents did not just say anything to teachers or anyone in the school and so still they have controlled the two youngest children in particular, and the oldest child, a boy, like I said he has been very forthcoming in asking for help and he told me at the day when I met him “I keep telling my sisters to tell the truth so that somewhat would help us”.

We are out of time. But thank you so much for bringing in this issue to light.

It was Diane Black, she runs a home for abused children in Silsbee, Texas.”

Adoption of Russian children has turned political

[The Voice of Russia 6/19/12 by Rob Sachs]

Dedicated LPC

A search of Texas discipline records shows that she risked her license for these kids. Texas, YOU STINK and HEADS BETTER ROLL over the lack of assistance for these kids and this despicable suspension!

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/counselor/lpc_enforce.shtm  under Freedman, Diane Black  “22 TAC §681.41-Related to  failure to set and maintain professional boundaries by  entering into a dual relationship with three minor  clients” On 4/16/10 she received a 1 yr Probated Suspension.

REFORM Puzzle Pieces

Which placing agency was this or was it an  independent adoption?

What about the postplacement reports? Postplacement visits?

Who the heck is going to step up to the plate to help these kids now? Hello US media? Anyone home? Start reporting on this case NOW!

Update: FINALLY! Nine and a half months later there is a REAL investigation! The adopted boy is still missing. The 16-year-old girl is alleging sexual abuse. She and her 15-year-old sister were removed from the house on March 21, 2013. It is no surprise that the only ones breaking this removal now are the Russian media.

“Texas authorities are investigating allegations that an adopted Russian girl was sexually abused by her American father, according to a state official and the girl’s mother, who denied the allegation.

“There is an abuse-neglect investigation being conducted,” Shari Pulliam, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in Beaumont, Texas, told RIA Novosti in emailed comments.

Pulliam said the girl, aged 16, as well as her 15-year-old sister, also an adoptee from Russia, were removed from their home on March 21 and placed together in a foster home pending the investigation.

Texas authorities received a tip on a statewide hotline last month alleging that one of the girls had been abused while in the custody of their adoptive parents in Silsbee, Texas, Pulliam said.

Both Pulliam and a senior official in Russia identified the girls’ parents by name. RIA Novosti is withholding publication of the names due to the sensitive nature of the allegations and the involvement of underage children.

The sheriff’s department in Hardin County, where Silsbee is located, has opened a criminal investigation into the allegations, Pulliam said. The sheriff’s office did not immediately respond to repeated requests for comment.

Reached by RIA Novosti, the girls’ adoptive mother confirmed in a telephone interview that her 16-year-old daughter had contacted Texas child protective services and claimed that her adoptive father had raped her.

But the mother described that accusation as the latest in a long string of false claims of abuse and threats of violence against the couple by the two girls and their 17-year-old brother, also adopted from Russia.

“We’ve been trying to get help for these kids for the last seven years,” the mother said.

The girls’ adoptive father was “devastated” by the rape charge, according to his wife, who said he had undergone two open-heart surgeries in the last two years and that the accusations are “just not true.”

The couple’s adopted son is currently considered missing, Pulliam told RIA Novosti, adding that the last confirmed sighting of him was in June 2012.

Russia’s children’s rights ombudsman, Pavel Astakhov, said in a statement Tuesday that he was informed by a Texas social worker, whom he identified as Diane Black, that the boy had spoken to her by telephone several months ago. Black could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

If the brother turns up, the department will petition the court to have him placed in a foster home too, Pulliam explained, adding that at age 17 he would have the right to refuse foster care under Texas law.

Astakhov posted several messages on his Twitter account and issued an official statement Tuesday stating that several months ago the Russian embassy in the United States had received information from an American woman about possible abuse of three adopted Russian children in Texas.

Astakhov said that one of the adopted girls had written a letter, dated March 8, to the Russian embassy about her adoptive family, posting a picture of a handwritten letter as evidence.

A spokesperson for the Russian embassy in Washington could not be immediately reached for comment Tuesday.

The case comes amid heightened tensions between Russia and the United States over international adoption. After Washington enacted the so-called Magnitsky Act, which introduces financial and visa sanctions on Russian officials accused of human rights abuses, Moscow banned US citizens from adopting Russian children.

Pulliam said that there had been reports of alleged abuse against the children dating back to 2004 but that some of the allegations had been ruled out, while authorities were unable to determine the veracity of the other accusations.

Child protective services in Texas provided counseling and other services to the family over the past several years, Pulliam said.

“Everything seemed to be going well,” Pulliam said in a telephone interview, adding that this latest claim was the first allegation of sexual abuse.

Social workers from child protective services began visiting the family’s house years ago, the mother told RIA Novosti. But she denied that the couple subjected the children to any kind of abuse, saying the children have significant behavioral problems.

“Once [social workers] got to know the kids, they closed the case every time,” she said. “Supposedly we were starving them to death, we were hitting them. There was nothing to it. We weren’t doing anything.”

Both of the girls are in good health and are being seen by a physician, Pulliam said.

A hearing at the Hardin County Court is set to be held April 16 to present the facts in the case, she said.

The mother said the couple adopted the children in January 2003. They were born in the city of Krasnokamsk in Russia’s Perm region, Astakhov said in a statement published Tuesday.”

Texas Probes Sex Abuse Claim by Russian Adoptee

[RIA Novosti 4/2/13 by Carl Schreck and Maria Young]

Update 2: Russian Media and Radio Free Europe have published the names of the adoptive parents and children.

Michael and Penny Deckert are the adoptive parents. The missing adoptee is Zackary Deckert (previously Aleksei Klimov). The Russian names of the two sisters are Anastasia and Svetlana Klimov.

We believe the full names of the adoptive parents are  Michael Edwin Deckert, age 53, an electrician, and Penny Malloy Deckert, also age 53.

Zackary is 17 and is featured in US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database. See his information and photo here .

Russia Investigating Alleged Abuse Of Adopted Siblings [Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 4/3/13] says “Russian investigators say they are looking into allegations that three Russian-born siblings were subjected to abuse by their adoptive American parents.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services confirmed that two Russian teenage girls have been removed from their adoptive parents’ home and placed in foster care.
Texas authorities are investigating accusations of violence and sexual abuse.
The girls’ adoptive mother has denied the allegations.
Russian officials say Michael and Penny Deckert adopted Aleksei, Anastasia, and Svetlana Klimov from a Russian orphanage in 2003.
Aleksei, now named Zachariah, left his adoptive family last year and his whereabouts are unknown.
The January death of an adopted Russian boy in Texas caused outrage in Russia.
In December, Russia banned all U.S. adoptions in retaliation for U.S. legislation targeting alleged Russian rights violators.”

More adopted Russian kids at risk: Texas parents suspected of abuse [Russia Today 4/3/13] says “Two teenage Russian girls have been removed from their adoptive parents and placed in a foster family as Texan authorities begin a probe into suspected threats and possible sexual abuse.

The investigation was confirmed by the Texas Department for Family and Protective Services, Russian news services reported. According to officials the incident took place in the town of Silsbee.

Russia’s Investigative Committee – tasked with oversight in especially important and resonant cases – said on Wednesday that it was starting its own probe in connection with the reports of violence against adopted Russian kids.

The committee’s spokesman gave the names of the American parents as Michael and Penny Deckert and the names of the girls as Anastasia and Svetlana Klimov. The official added that Russian investigators possessed some information suggesting that the girls’ brother Aleksey Klimov, also adopted by the same parents, has repeatedly suffered from abuse and cruel treatment by his US guardians.

Aleksey Klimov, who was given the Anglicized name of Zachariah Deckert, left his adoptive family over a year ago and presently his whereabouts are unknown, the agency’s representative added.

The Investigative Committee will address US law enforcers with a request to provide all materials in the case, the representative said. He noted that despite the fact that the US side rarely expresses an intention to cooperate, Russian law enforcers were firm in their intent to conduct a “full, independent and objective investigation of the facts of cruelty towards Russian children.”

The Russian ombudsman for children’s rights, Pavel Astakhov, also reported that he had received information of another case of abuse of Russian adoptees in the state of Texas. He added that the information must be thoroughly checked and that the Russian investigators and the Ministry of Science and Education (which deals with orphans’ issues in Russia) must first request all relevant information from the US, then establish an action plan.

The official noted that one of the sisters personally addressed the Russian embassy in early March and complained about her adoptive parents’ behavior. Two weeks later, Texan protective services took the sisters from the Deckerts and placed them with a foster family.

Pavel Astakhov said that one of the adopted girls had written a letter, dated March 8, to the Russian embassy about her adoptive family, posting a picture of a handwritten letter as evidence.

According to Russian media the three children were born in the city of Krasnokamsk in central Russia’s Perm Region. In 2003 they all were adopted by the Deckert couple and moved to the United States.

The Klimovs’ case is yet another controversial incident involving suspected abuse of adopted Russian orphans in the US. In February mass media reported the death of three-year-old Maksim Kuzmin, who was adopted by a Texan family. According to the autopsy report, the boy died of injuries, but the US justice system ruled the death was an accident and refused to prosecute the adoptive parents.

The Russian side has repeatedly complained that the US law enforcers offer little cooperation in such cases and eventually Russian legislators passed the so-called Dima Yakovlev Act – an extensive regulation that includes a complete ban on adoptions of Russian children by US parents or by proxy of US organizations. However, the Russian-US adoptions agreement officially remains in force until the end of this year.”

Texas investigates sexual abuse claim by adopted Russian girl [RAPSI 4/3/13] says “The girl’s adoptive mother, who denies the allegation, told RIA Novosti in a telephone interview that her daughter had contacted local social workers with claims that she had been raped.

The hearing is set to begin at the Hardin County Court on April 16.

Pulliam said the girl and her 15-year-old sister, also an adoptee from Russia, were removed from their home on March 21 and placed in a foster home together pending the investigation.

Children’s rights commissioner Pavel Astakhov has identified the Texan couple as Michael and Penny Deckert from Silsbee. They adopted three Russian siblings, Alexei, Anastasia and Svetlana Klimov, from an orphanage in the Perm region in January 2003.

Penny Deckert has denied allegations and media reports claiming that they regularly abused and beat the three Russian adoptees. She has also said that the children have significant behavioral problems.”

Many US agencies placed from Perm. One happened to be Gladney, but we have no idea at this point who the placing agency was.

Update 3/April 3 evening

“A Russian-born teenager at the center of a brewing international scandal has denied allegations that she was sexually abused by her adoptive American father in Texas, a local law enforcement official told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

“The daughter did not make the accusations, a friend did,” Hardin County Sheriff Ed Cain, whose office led the initial probe into the claim, said in a telephone interview from Kountze, Texas. “When we questioned the daughter, she denied the accusations.”

Cain declined to identify the name of the individual who made the claim of sexual abuse.

Cain made the comments several hours after Russia’s federal Investigative Committee announced it had opened a probe into the possible abuse of the girl and two other teenage children adopted from Russia by the Silsbee, Texas, family in 2003.

Texas child protective services said this week that they had received an anonymous tip alleging sexual abuse of one of the siblings while in the custody of her adoptive parents.

The adoptive mother told RIA Novosti that her husband had been accused of raping their 16-year-old adopted daughter, an allegation the mother denied.

Both Texas and Russian officials have identified the children and their parents by name. RIA Novosti is withholding publication of the names due to the sensitive nature of the allegations and the involvement of underage children.

The girl and her 15-year-old sister have been placed in foster care pending an April 16 civil hearing. Their 17-year-old brother is missing and officially considered an “endangered runaway.”

A woman who answered the phone at the foster care facility where the adoptive mother said the girls are living told RIA Novosti that she could neither confirm nor deny whether the adopted children were residing there.

Russia’s children’s rights ombudsman, Pavel Astakhov, said in a statement Tuesday that an acquaintance of the boy had spoken with him by telephone in the past few months.

The accusations, which grabbed national headlines in Russia this week after Astakhov published information about the allegations of abuse on his Twitter feed and in an official statement, come amid heightened tensions between Russia and the United States over international adoption.

After Washington enacted the so-called Magnitsky Act in December, introducing financial and visa sanctions on Russian officials accused of human rights abuses, Moscow banned US citizens from adopting Russian children.

The adoptive parents told RIA Novosti in separate telephone interviews Wednesday that they did not know whether their daughter denied the rape allegation, which they say they first learned about a day after the girl purportedly got in trouble at school.

Child protective services told the couple “there had been charges of me raping her every day or something,” the children’s adoptive father said.

“It just kind of broke my heart,” the father told RIA Novosti. “Before that I thought we got along pretty good. There had been times when they accused us of beating them and things like that, and [child protective services] came out and couldn’t find any marks on them.”

Shari Pulliam, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in Beaumont, Texas, declined to comment on the specific details of the alleged abuse.

She told RIA Novosti this week, however, that authorities had checked out repeated accusations that the parents were abusing the three children beginning in 2004. None of the claims proved conclusive enough to remove the children from the home, she said.

The adoptive mother said the children had repeatedly made false claims of abuse against the couple and had threatened them with physical violence as well. She said the couple is currently filling out paperwork to relinquish their parental rights to the children.

Pulliam said she could not immediately confirm the couple’s intention to give up the rights to the children, who are biological siblings born in the city of Krasnokamsk in the Russian region of Perm.

Astakhov on Tuesday called on Texas authorities to conduct a “thorough” investigation of the abuse claims. In a statement, he cited a Texas social worker, whom he identified as Diane Black, as saying the children had suffered abuse at the hands of their adoptive parents.

Astakhov also said the 16-year-old adopted girl had written a letter, dated March 8, to the Russian embassy about her adoptive family. He posted a picture of a handwritten letter as evidence but did not disclose the contents of the letter. The photograph was taken so as to obscure much of the information in the correspondence.

The Hardin County sheriff’s department turned the case over last week to the Texas Ranger Division, which conducts criminal investigations at the state level, at the request of the Russian consulate in Houston, according to Cain, the county sheriff.

“They didn’t feel like we were doing a good enough job, so we felt like we should turn this over to the Texas Rangers,” Cain told RIA Novosti.

A spokesman for the Russian embassy in Washington told RIA Novosti on Wednesday that Russian diplomats had requested that Texas Rangers join the investigation because local authorities have been unable to find the couple’s missing adopted son.

The Texas Rangers did not immediately respond to a voicemail message left Wednesday afternoon seeking comment.

A hearing at Hardin County Court is set to be held April 16 to present the facts in the case.”

Texas Sheriff: Russian adoptee denies sex abuse claim against father

[Baltic Review 4/4/13 by RIA Novosti by Maria Young and Karin Zeitvogel]

Now reread the interview from Voice of Russia in the original post above about how many people had reported them to CPS; how neighbors were helping them; how Alexei was forthcoming and the sisters were not; that they were homeschooled and had windows boarded up and food denied.

Update 4: Russia says that the 3 siblings can return to Russia.

“The three Russian orphaned siblings from Krasnokamsk, Perm Territory, earlier adopted by the U.S. couple Michael and Penny Deckert, who announced recently that they decided to give up their parental rights to them, may return to Russia on certain conditions, says Pavel Mikov, a children’s rights commissioner in the Perm territory.

The children are likely to be placed in the U.S. by the state authorities in line with their law. They may return to Russia only after the Perm Territory Court annuls the ruling on their adoption,” Mikov told Interfax on Thursday. “But it is unclear who will be the claimant in this case.”

Such a suit may theoretically be filed by prosecution authorities if they find out that there were irregularities in the adoption procedure.

Russia’s Channel One television reported earlier on Thursday that the U.S. spouses Michael and Penny Deckert had told local journalists that they had decided to renounce their parental rights to their adoptive children from Russia.

“They said they were fed up with false accusations of cruelty. The Texas authorities have already started an official investigation into reported facts of abuse of the adopted children in the Deckert family,” Channel One said.

The Deckerts adopted Aleksei, Anastasia, and Svetlana Klimov from a Krasnokamsk orphanage in 2003.

Russian children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astkahov said on April 2 that his staff was looking into reports that these children were subjected to abuse by their adoptive parents.”

Orphans abandoned by U.S. adoptive family may return to Russia if adoption annulled – ombudsman

[Russia Beyond the Headlines 4/4/13]

Update 5: Both Russian media and Windows to Russia reporting that the Deckerts have terminated their parental rights.

Russian Media, google-translated

Offended by the press and abandoned children  [Gazeta 4/4/13 by Maxim Solopov] says “American family from Texas decided to give up adopted from an orphanage in Perm Alexis, Anastasia and Svetlana Klimov. Chet Deckert angry attacks of the Russian press. Meanwhile, with regard to the foster parents began an investigation after claiming the children about the facts of violence.

American adoptive parents Alexei Klimov Anastasia and Svetlana decided to give them up, citing false accusations by the Russian press. This was reported on Thursday, ITAR-TASS reported with reference to the Texas television station KFDM. Michael and Penny Deckert decided to abandon the adopted children because they are “tired of false accusations, which trumpeted the headlines in Russia.”

According to the foster parents, they have spent on the adoption of children by about $ 45 million, and as they could take care of adopted children from Russia.

The first on Tuesday night about the “systematic humiliation and beatings” over three Russian orphans commissioner told the Russian President for Children’s Rights Pavel Astakhov. On the eve of his statement responded Central Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee. In the UK reported the beginning of preliminary inquiries in respect of the four Deckert. The reason for the fact-checking abuse of Russian children in American foster family agency called the material published in the media, and information “obtained through diplomatic channels.”

“On the next case I was informed consular officials a month ago. This statement was received by the Russian Embassy in the United States. I then instructed to check the data before drawing any conclusions. The fact is known to us, it is in my control, the embassy is working on this issue “- said earlier Astakhov. He added that in this story are still many questions still remain unanswered.

According to Astakhov, ten years ago, a married couple from Silsbee, Texas has adopted eight-year-Alexis, five-year and seven-year Anastasia Svetlana Klimov from the children’s home in Krasnokamsk (Perm region). “According to the children’s therapist and social worker from Silsbee Diane Black, a new family of small Russians were systematically abused and battered, especially getting any older – Alexis, who became known in America Zachary,” – said the press service of the Children’s Ombudsman. Sotsrabotnitsa reported that Alex constantly ran out of the house of foster parents, and in the summer of last year has disappeared completely, he is now officially a wanted man. A few months ago (when exactly – is unknown) Alex called a social worker, and then it became clear that he was still alive. A month ago, the Russian Embassy in the United States has addressed his sister Anastasia, received the name of Kelly. The press service said that recently there were suspicions of sexual abuse of Anastasia from the adoptive father.

To the embassy girl wrote on March 8 and March 21 is the U.S. Social Security authorities have taken away from families of children under the temporary custody.

At present, to establish all the circumstances of the accident as part of a procedural test IC intends to ask the U.S. side the necessary documents and materials. “Despite the fact that the authorities of the United States were reluctant to cooperate in these matters with the Russian investigation, at the Investigative Committee of Russia has a firm intention to carry out a full, independent and impartial investigation into the facts of violence against Russian children”, – explained in the press service of the Ministry. In the UK also stressed: in the United States adopted children from Russia to his age are citizens of the Russian Federation, and investigators plan to “use all legal means to protect their rights.” When the scan investigators agree on the criminal case.

Meanwhile, on the eve of the U.S. government assured the Russian side that taken out of foster care teens feel good, have passed medical examination and “successfully mastered in a new place.” This statement was made by the representative of the Department of Family and Child Protection Texas government Sherry Pulliam. According to her, if you run away from home Alexei find, then, since he is already 17 years old, he is in the court of U.S. law may refuse to return the custody Deckert.

April 16 in Hardin County Court will begin hearings into the alleged sexual abuse of Anastasia. Penny herself Deckert believes the allegations to be false. Previously, she confirmed media reports that her daughter wrote the statement that she was raped by stepfather. According to her husband for the last two years, had two operations on the heart. In turn, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Perm region, where all three were adopted Klimov, Paul Mikov made a statement that the children were adopted in compliance with all legal norms.

In Krasnokamsky orphanage “Gazeta.ru” could not comment on the circumstances of adoption Klimov, referring to employment guidance. In turn, the Commissioner’s Office, “the Newspaper” reported that if prosecutors appeal to the court to cancel the decision on adoption of children, those able to return to Russia. ”

April 13, 2013 Sweet and Sour: One More Russian Adoption Issue Starting to Clearing Up…  [Windows to Russia 4/13/13 y Kyle Keeton] says ”

Today I received sweet and sour news! The sweet was that the American family (I have written about before!) that was abusing their adopted children in America, have been forced against the wall, through pressure by Russia and by a American woman who has fought for these kids for several years. She finally accomplished what it took to save the two girls that were in the home, but the boy is still missing a year after he ran away. The situation was just plain bad…

The sour is that this woman is being witch hunted for doing the right thing and bringing the Russian government into the picture. One thing that America does not like, is to have its dirty laundry and skeletons in the closet spread around all over the place…

I have been involved in many issues with adopted children by Americans and they are not a pretty picture when exposed. I will not say much more about this particular case except for the fact that on April 16th, 2013. The scoundrels abusing two Russian adopted girls, have given up their rights to the kids. Now they just have to find the Russian boy and lets all hope he is still alive and or able to be found…

Here is the bottom line! If you know of a child abuse going on and it involves Russian or any CIS children. Drop me an e-mail. I will send it to the news media in Russia and I will post it here if you desire. This blog is read by Washington DC and by the Kremlin, that means that you will get exposure on what is posted…

I will help if I can for internal child abuse in America on American kids, but understand that I have much less pull on that situation. Russia is serious about changing the situation with adopted kids, America is not…

5 cases now have been rooted out and exposed so far, by being shoved down the right peoples throats. The process is slow and takes a lot of patience on my part. But the people in America that are fighting the suppressive system that is in place there, are the ones who are the patient ones, as they try to overcome the odds against these kids. Russia has discovered this and the Russian government is try its best to help these people, as they are being squelched against their will. Yes America the land of the free…

Now you understand more why the American government has tried to destroy the Windows to Russia website! There is someone behind it, that cares about the world and that person means it! He is not afraid to express it and he is not afraid to post it. When I say that Russia is becoming what America really was at one time and America is now becoming what we were taught that the Soviet Union was! It makes me sad, because even in the old days and all her cheating and lying, America was still based on a moral structure and she tried to do right many times. Now that moral structure has collapsed and is decaying…

I say many times and I will say it many times more, “We need to look in the mirror and see what needs to be fixed there, before we start pointing fingers at others!”

Have a nice day and sweet and sour news is better than all sour news. Two little girls are safe and that is half the battle…”

 Update 6/July 31, 2013

“A Russian girl will get counseling to help her overcome psychological damage that social workers say was sustained while living with the American family that adopted her and her siblings.

Russian Girl Needs Counseling After U.S. Adoption

[The Moscow Times 7/32/13]