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WOMAN ADMITS SLAPPING ADOPTED CHILD ON FLIGHT FROM RUSSIA
October 8, 1997
Web posted at: 10:30 p.m. EDT (0230 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Phoenix woman testified Wednesday that on a
12-hour flight from Moscow she may have slapped one of the two
Russian girls she and her husband adopted.
Karen Thorne said she was "very frustrated" in her attempts to calm
the young girl on the crowded jet. She said difficulties began when
she and her husband, Richard, met the 4-year-olds at an orphanage in
Voronezh, about 12 hours north of Moscow by train.
She said one child cried frequently and the other was initially
warm, but then became aggressive and hard to manage. She said the
children were difficult to control on a shopping trip in Moscow and
while waiting to board the plane to New York.
Three Texas men who were on the flight with their own newly adopted
children said they saw the Thornes hit the girls. The Thornes were
arrested upon landing and the girls were placed in foster homes,
first in New York and now in Arizona, where the Thornes are
permitted supervised visits.
The Thornes have been charged with assault, harassment and
endangering the welfare of the children. The Thornes speak only
English; the children only Russian.
Copyright 1997 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
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redistributed.
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