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The baby is deprived of his family for the tenth time
As already reported , after the adoption of a law prohibiting US citizens from adopting Russian orphans, seven children in St. Petersburg were left in “limbo”: court decisions on them were made back in December, but they began to enter into legal force only in January, when The so-called “Dima Yakovlev law” has already appeared.
The Ministry of Education, which is responsible for this issue, was in no hurry to express an official position. However, at the federal level the idea has been repeatedly voiced that decisions made locally must be implemented. In particular, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that “children for whom there is already a court decision will go to America to join their new parents.”
On January 17, the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights, Pavel Astakhov, at a meeting with journalists, commented on the situation as follows: “In St. Petersburg, there are seven court decisions that have not yet entered into legal force. In a month, as soon as they enter into force, the children will leave, nothing doesn't interfere."
And indeed, six St. Petersburg orphans were safely reunited with their adoptive parents from the United States. And the seventh child, a 3-year-old from psychoneurological orphanage No. 4, may never know what a family is.
The boy was born prematurely with a whole bunch of diseases: damage to the central nervous system, heart disease, convergent strabismus, and suffered purulent meningitis in infancy. The mother abandoned her son after birth. His relatives never came to visit him. In total, Russian adoptive parents gave up the child 9 times.
About a year ago, Phillip and Anne, a married couple from the United States, began communicating with the baby. During this time, the couple became so attached to the orphan that they decided to officially become his parents and take him to their homeland.
The new law threatened to derail all their plans, but the court's decision had already been made. This means that the family should have been allowed to take the child out.
And here’s another obstacle: today, January 21, 2013, the St. Petersburg City Court received a message that the prosecutor’s office had filed an appeal. (Although on December 21, when the decision on adoption was made, the supervisory authority had no objections.)
For now, this means one thing: the boy’s departure from the orphanage is postponed indefinitely. And if the Supreme Court upholds the appeal of the prosecutor's office, the orphan will lose the chance to find a family for the tenth time...