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spending six months in tennessee with torry hansen, his adoptive mom. he was known as justin in tennessee. on thursday he was artyom arriving in russia all by himself carrying a note from hansen that said the orphanage lied to her about the boy's mental state. ron allen is in north tennessee where the adoptive family lives. ron, with a good morning to you, this is one controversial story to say the least. >> reporter: it is and it's disturbing. that's the word some of the people used to describe what's happened. this is the family home behind me. it's been very quiet for the past couple of days. no one has seen the hansens since the story broke. and even before that people who live around here, everybody knows everybody, people say the family was a bit of a mystery and people just cannot believe what they did to a 7-year-old little boy. the hansen family compound remains shut tight. easter decorations still up. the adoptive mother has not been seen here since word spread she sent her 7-year-old adopted son
warn parents about making babies. we need to go in with our eyes open. if you're going to adopt a child with special needs, a child who was institutionalized or who had been abused and neglected and so they were in foster care, if you're going the adopt a kid who has issues, then everyone has to have a responsibility, from the orphanage director and agency to the people who provide services to the resources that you need as a parent, and then as a parent, if you give birth or adopt a child who has special needs, you have to take care of that child, you have to talk to the educators and find the resources to make that family succeed. >> yeah. the woman who just returned her 7-year-old adoptive son, artyom, back to russia, says the boy threatened to burn her house down. so what should her course of action have been when dealing with this boy? >> sure. it should have been to get help for the boy. you know, again, in a biological family, if your kid did that, would you put him on a bus?