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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100412:19:47:00

medvedev says it's a monstrous deed. the kremlin's children's rights commission says the boy told them his american adoptive mom didn't love him and that she used to pull his hair. the family says the 7-year-old boy named justin was violent and the mother claims the adoption agency lied to her about his emotional state. let's bring in barbara diggs. you adopted 8-year-old elizabeth from russia. tell me about the behavioral problems you encountered in those first five years. >> well, they were pretty brutal. she really did not boond nd at with my husband and told me about the abuse her parents gave her, her mother beating her, throwing her against a wall, letting her be hungry. we knew there would be attachment problems so i did pretty intensive holding therapy for two years to try to bond with her but there were a lot of problems with her lying, manipulation, her violent temper tantrums, and trying to pit my husband against me. actually it felt a lot like she was sucking the marrow out of my

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sad for the mother. she had to be in a lot of pain and at her wit's end to do this. i think there are better alternatives but she probably did what she thought was best in love because he is from russia. so she took pains to get him on the plane and to have someone meet him and she knew he would be familiar with the culture and the people and probably out of desperation she tried to do something very loving. airlines do take care of children when they're on flights. and so i think she didn't know about treatment for reactive attachment disorder and she didn't know what else to do but i think she truly tried to act out of love. knowing the situation as i've been in. >> we heard from an adoption agency person today who says basically the same thing, that there was probably a mom who needed some resources and just didn't know how to get them. barbara, i appreciate you sharing your experience with us. thanks. >> thank you. the astronauts up in space are celebrating a big anniversary today.

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bones many times. >> you said you could see your marriage slipping away. even though this was a diagnosed disorder she had, a psychological disorder, how did you finally embrace the decision to give her to a family that had more experience with that particular psychological disorder? >> well, when she turned us in for child abuse, which was unfounded, i just decided that was the last straw and so we tried to search to find a place that could help her. we did not want to get rid of her but we wanted to find her help and because of her age we knew time was critical so we found a family who was trained in working with reactive attachment disorder. they had beliefs like we did and they took her and tried to help her bond but it literally broke my heart. >> so, barbara, how do you feel now about this tennessee mom who's gone through something similar but she put her 7-year-old on a plane back to russia? >> well, actually, i feel pretty

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intensive investigation that will not only answer the questions of what happened here but set in place a system that will make sure that it can never happen again. >> nbc's brian mooar, many thanks. appreciate it. >> reporter: thank you. as a tennessee woman's return of her adopted son to russia makes headlines, another tennessee family says her story should serve as a warning to people considerable adoption. james and barbara diggs adopted a baby girl from russia in 1999. they soon found out she suffered from reactive detachment disorder which led her to make false allegations of child abuse, and the more they loved and showed her love the angrier she became. >> she has a problem with compulsive lying, of severe disobedience, of an inability to really connect with us in a healthy way. >> the diggs eventually gave their daughter over the a family

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