Working, Russell,
International Adoptee's Death Tears Apart Once-Hopeful Family. Russell Working and Alex Rodriguez. - Chicago Tribune, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 76, Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: International Adoptee's Death Tears Apart Once-Hopeful Family, May 27, 2004; pp. n.p..
"Alexei Geiko needed rescuing. At 20 months, he had been removed from alcoholic parents in Russia who underfed him and made him sleep on the floor of their roach-infested apartment. He then spent nearly five years in an orphanage. Dino and Irma Pavlis offered themselves as his rescuers. The Schaumburg, Ill., couple hoped to start a family last fall by adopting two needy children: Alexei, 6, and his sister, 5. To the judges who approved the adoption in the southern Russian port city of Yeysk, the match looked ideal....But six weeks after the family arrived in the United States in November [2003], Alex Pavlis--as he became known--was dead and his new mother jailed on charges of murdering him." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article relates the story of how one international adoption ended with the death of a young boy and the shattering of a family.
1522-3213;
Abused children
Adopted children
Adoption--Russia (Federation)
Adoptive parents
Behavior disorders in children
Children--Death
Emotional problems of children
Intercountry adoption
AC1.S5
050
International Adoptee's Death Tears Apart Once-Hopeful Family. Russell Working and Alex Rodriguez. - Chicago Tribune, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 76, Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: International Adoptee's Death Tears Apart Once-Hopeful Family, May 27, 2004; pp. n.p..
"Alexei Geiko needed rescuing. At 20 months, he had been removed from alcoholic parents in Russia who underfed him and made him sleep on the floor of their roach-infested apartment. He then spent nearly five years in an orphanage. Dino and Irma Pavlis offered themselves as his rescuers. The Schaumburg, Ill., couple hoped to start a family last fall by adopting two needy children: Alexei, 6, and his sister, 5. To the judges who approved the adoption in the southern Russian port city of Yeysk, the match looked ideal....But six weeks after the family arrived in the United States in November [2003], Alex Pavlis--as he became known--was dead and his new mother jailed on charges of murdering him." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article relates the story of how one international adoption ended with the death of a young boy and the shattering of a family.
1522-3213;
Abused children
Adopted children
Adoption--Russia (Federation)
Adoptive parents
Behavior disorders in children
Children--Death
Emotional problems of children
Intercountry adoption
AC1.S5
050