International Adoptee's Death Tears Apart Once-Hopeful Family. Russell Working and Alex Rodriguez.
by Working, Russell; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 76Family. Publisher: Chicago Tribune, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Abused children | Adopted children | Adoption -- Russia (Federation) | Adoptive parents | Behavior disorders in children | Children -- Death | Emotional problems of children | Intercountry adoptionDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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.
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