If he were Muslim, this would be a hate crime.

Russia reacted with horror today over the heartbreaking story of a seven-year-old Siberian boy adopted by an American family who was sent back to Moscow alone – because his U.S. mother didn’t want him any more.

Little Artem Saveliev was last year taken from a grim orphanage and given a new life in Tennessee last year.

But his adoptive mother Torry-Ann Hansen, a 34-year-old nurse, yesterday put him on a ten-hour flight as an unaccompanied minor with a note ‘to whom it may concern’ saying: ‘I no longer wish to parent this child’.

In his rucksack, she had placed sweets, biscuits and colouring pens for the journey.

Russia reacted with horror today over the heartbreaking story of a seven-year-old Siberian boy adopted by an American family who was sent back to Moscow alone – because his U.S. mother didn’t want him any more.

Little Artem Saveliev was last year taken from a grim orphanage and given a new life in Tennessee last year.

But his adoptive mother Torry-Ann Hansen, a 34-year-old nurse, yesterday put him on a ten-hour flight as an unaccompanied minor with a note ‘to whom it may concern’ saying: ‘I no longer wish to parent this child’.

In his rucksack, she had placed sweets, biscuits and colouring pens for the journey.

But hey, at least she gave him sweets for the road!