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- Mom Testifies / Adoption-abuse case heard: [QUEENS Edition]
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]09 Oct 1997: A.34.
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- A Phoenix woman testified yesterday that one of the two Russian girls she and her husband adopted in May cried from the first moment they met her, and the second became obstreperous within days.
- Karen Thorne's testimony came after Family Court Judge Joseph Lauria ruled that the city had presented enough evidence to proceed with six allegations that the Thornes slapped the girls around on the flight home from Moscow.
- A few days later, on a shopping trip in Moscow with the Thornes and a Russian host family, the brunette began behaving "aggressively," Karen Thorne said. The child ran up to strangers, kicked them and grabbed things, prompting scoldings and finally a swat on the backside from the Russian-speaking host mother.
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- A Phoenix woman testified yesterday that one of the two Russian girls she and her husband adopted in May cried from the first moment they met her, and the second became obstreperous within days.
- Karen Thorne's testimony came after Family Court Judge Joseph Lauria ruled that the city had presented enough evidence to proceed with six allegations that the Thornes slapped the girls around on the flight home from Moscow.
- A seventh allegation - that the girls were struck with metal eating utensils - was not backed up, the judge said.
- Thorne said difficulties began when she and her husband, Richard, met the 4-year-olds on May 19 at an orphanage in Voronezh, about 12 hours north of Moscow by train.
- She said one child, a blonde, cried from the start and the other, a brunette, was initially warm but then became aggressive and hard to manage. The court has barred disclosing the names of the children, who were not related before the adoption.
- At their first meeting, the brunette "came running out with hugs and kisses and smiles," Karen Thorne, 43, testified. "We knelt down and hugged her. She called us momma and poppa."
- The blonde cried and resisted their efforts to get acquainted, Thorne said. The Thornes speak only English; the children only Russian.
- A few days later, on a shopping trip in Moscow with the Thornes and a Russian host family, the brunette began behaving "aggressively," Karen Thorne said. The child ran up to strangers, kicked them and grabbed things, prompting scoldings and finally a swat on the backside from the Russian-speaking host mother.
- Then on May 28, while waiting to board the plane to New York, the brunette became jealous and pulled an earring off a flight attendant who was kneeling to soothe the weeping blonde, Karen Thorne said. When the brunette was upbraided by the Russian-speaking flight attendant, she too wept, so both girls were crying as they boarded the plane.
- Karen Thorne said she and her husband had 35 hours of parenting classes before leaving for Russia.
- During a morning of direct testimony, the questioning by defense lawyer, Harvey Jacobs, did not touch on witnesses' accounts of slaps and other physical and verbal abuse of the girls.
- On Monday, three Texas men who were on the flight with their own newly adopted children said they saw the Thornes hit the girls. They gave statements to authorities when the plane landed at Kennedy Airport.
- The Thornes were arrested on landing and the girls were placed in foster homes, first in New York and now in Arizona, where the adoptive parents have been permitted supervised visits.
- The couple, free on bail, have been charged with assault, harassment and endangering the welfare of the children.
- These misdemeanor criminal charges await the disposition of the Family Court proceeding, which seeks to determine whether abuse occurred and, if so, what should be done in the interests of the family.
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- Newsday File Photo by Alan Raia-Karen Thorne, left, with her husband Richard outside Family Court in Jamaica in June.
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