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Mother who sent that boy back to russia alone. cnns ivan watson is there. >> reporter: he is turning 8 years old this week. his birthday will be anything but normal. >> hes very confused about all this. >> reporter: he is russias top childrens welfare official. he said artyems adoptive american family lied to the boy last week, before shipping him off on a solo, transatlantic flight to moscow. he shows us a copy of the signed letter from artyems adoptive mother, torry hansen, which the boy was c...

Officials, who said he was healthy. >> how can you imagine that 7 years old boy can be a menace, a danger for the family, for the adult people? >> reporter: russian television broadcast foota agage of him meg with artyem at a childrens hospital. at one point artyem calls his adoptive mother bad and said she used to pull his hair. >> bad. >> reporter: the abandonment of artyem has left many russians furious. >> translator: i would forbid sending our children to america. i believe that there are e...