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.Instead, she and a grandmother that he was going on an 'excursion' to Moscow. In the typed note, which the blond boy was clutching when Moscow police picked him up, she said she wanted the adoption annulled.The Russians angrily denied this, saying he was stubborn but that his only disability was that he was 'flat-footed'.Officials said they have never witnessed such cruelty to a child after promising a 'new life'. Unwanted Artem, eight next week, looked confused and bewildered as he was taken into care by Moscow social services.The Kremlin's children's rights commissioner Pavel Astakhov lambasted theForeign Minister Sergey Lavrov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying the ministry would recommend that the U.S. and Russia hammer out an agreement before any new adoptions are allowed.'We have taken the decision ... to suggest a freeze on any adoptions to American families until Russia and the USA sign an international agreement' on the conditions for adoptions and the obligations of host families, Lavrov was quoted as saying.He also said he was 'indignant' at the way the child was treated 'as a parcel'.Lavrov said theRussian officials also refused the U.S. consul access to the child saying: 'If his American parent kicked out him from the country on a plane like a sack of potatoes, then we will look after the boy.'Our care system will take up the case. After a full medical examination, he will be placed into one of our orphanages.'Ashtakhov questioned howNormally, stringent checks are applied on minors travelling without parents. It appears the child was also alone when he flew from Tennessee to Washington before boarding the flight to Moscow.'The adoptive mother broke all the rules and procedures by sending an adopted child back,' he said. Ashtakhov, who said he played with the child and talked to him, said the mother had another son called Logan.'Artem said he made good friends with Logan,' he said. 'He was talking quite calmly about the family, butIn a shocking typed letter she gave to her seven-year-old 'son' to take with him to Moscow, she revealed how she adopted the boy in September 2009.She claimed he is 'mentally unstable' and that his problems were hidden from her by Russian orphanage officials before she adopted him.'He is violent and has severe psychopathic issues/behaviour. I was lied to and misled by the Russian orphanage workers and director regarding his mental stability,' she wrote.'They chose to grossly misrepresent those problems in order to get him out of their orphanage.' The letter - addressed 'to whom it may concern' at the Russian Ministry of Education in Moscow - said: 'After giving my best to this child I am sorry to say that for the sake of my family, friends and myself, I no longer wish to parent this child.'As he is a Russian national, I am returning him to your guardianship and would like the adoption disannulled.'Adoption officials in Partizansk, near Vladivostok were stunned, saying that the U.S. woman had made a good impression on them when she went through adoption procedures last year.She spent four full days with Artem watched by adoption workers before she was allowed to become his mother.'It was clear that there was mutual affection, and it was good,' said Vera Kuznetsova, chief adoption officer in the region.'She seemed a nice, kind woman. Artem immediately reached out to her. She even learned a few Russian words to communicate with her future son,' said one official.Recent follow-up reports from America on the boy did not detect any strains in the family, it is claimed.Russian officals deny Hansen's claims about Artem having severe behavioral problems and being mentally unstable.'We are shocked by how the American family has treated our child. Artem grew up as a completely normal, relatively advanced child for his age, and healthy. Does she count being flatfooted as a disability? 'No other medical abnormalities were found.American psychotherapist Joe Soll told Russian media that the boy's rejection from his adopted family would have a serious impact.'When you remove a child from a family, no matter what the circumstances are, it's a trauma,' he said. 'We don't look at children who have been adopted as tramuatised, but they are. I don't think people are educated at all to understand what adoption is really about.'The child's real mother Ekaterina was deprived of her parental rights because she was an alcoholic, officials said yesterday. She gave birth to the child at 19 and cared for him until he was six.He was adopted by Hansen on 18 September 2009 in Russia and eleven days later she formally changed his name to Artem Justin Hansen.Astakhov saidThe boy spoke of a grandmother who shouted at him.'Artem is a very nice kid. We drew pictures together and had nice chat,' said Astakhov.Officials say they want action against the mother for child abuse. The Moscow media angrily denounced the 'cruelty' inflicted on the seven-year-old.In one case, a two-year-old boy died after his American father left him alone in a car in 30C temperatures. The cases led to a public outcry and new curbs on adoption.The case was highlighted on a day when U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev signed an historic nuclear arm reduction treaty in Prague.