A U.S. judge has ruled that an American woman who sent her adopted son back to Russia must pay child support, the Daily Mail reported.
The judge will hear arguments in May as to how much money Torry Hansen should pay.
Hansen was living in Tennessee in April 2010 when she put Artyom Savelyev, then 7, on a flight to his native Russia unaccompanied, with a note saying she did not want him as he was "psychotic." She had taken the boy from a Russian orphanage in 2009.
She was sued for unpaid child support by her adoption agency, World Association for Children and Parents.
Russia's children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov praised the judgment and said it set an "important precedent."
Russia wants Hansen to pay about $2,500 per month to Artyom, who now lives in a group home in Moscow.
