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Mom to pay child support for Russian
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LYNCHBURG, Tenn. (AP) — A judge in Tennessee ruled that an American woman who sent her adopted son back to Russia is liable for child support in a lawsuit brought by her former adoption agency. Torry Hansen was living in Shelbyville in April 2010 when she sent her then-7-year-old adopted son on a plane alone back to Moscow with a note that said the boy was violent and she no longer wanted to keep him. Her adoption agency, World Association for Children and Parents, filed a lawsuit in Bedford County seeking child support for the boy.