The 7-year-old Russian boy who arrived in Moscow alone on a plane from the United States after his U.S. adoptive family rejected him is to live with a Russian foster family, the Russian children's ombudsman told RIA Novosti on Friday.
"Artyom will be discharged from hospital and taken to a foster family next week," Pavel Astakhov said. He did not give any further details about the foster family.
Astakhov said the boy has caught a slight cold, but managed to celebrate his eight birthday with enthusiasm in hospital.
He said the usually lengthy process of uniting an orphan with a foster family would be speeded up for Artyom in light of the circumstances.
Seven-year-old Artyom, who was adopted in the United States around six months ago, flew to Moscow on April 8 on his own after being accompanied to the plane in the United States by his adoptive grandmother. He was carrying a note from his former adoptive mother saying she would not take care of him any longer because he was "mentally unstable."
MOSCOW, April 16 (RIA Novosti)
