Terrible news

I awoke feeling great today. The girls room is really coming together and we are taking child CPR this morning. We leave Thur. for Moscow our journey is almost over.
Then I turned on the internet and was hit in the face with a story about an adopted child being murdered. This is truly horrible, how can a women beat a 2 year old to death is beyond my comprehension. But it gets even worse, this child was adopted out of the same court, same judge we are to meet in a week. How could this happen. The story was reported in the Moscow times-more fodder for all the people still angry about the woman convicted in May for killing her son. The story is as follows:
July 8 Moscow Times United States woman has been charged with killing her 2 1/2 �year-old adopted daughter from Russia after she told a detective that she shook, kicked and repeatedly punched the child, the Washington Post reported on Friday quoting a police source. North Carolina resident Peggy Sue Hilt, 33, who was visiting relatives near Manassas last weekend, told police that she had become �enraged and angered� at her adopted Russian child, Nina, on July 1 while they were at their home in North Carolina, authorities said. When the child stopped breathing the next morning at her relatives� home, Hilt called 911 and rescue officials took her to the Prince William Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Police said the cause of death was one or more blows to the child�s abdomen, and Hilt was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder. After the child's collapse Saturday, emergency workers and the treating physician believed the injuries were "suspicious in nature" and probably were the result of child abuse, according to a search warrant affidavit. Nina had bruises all over her body -- between her eyebrows, on her chin, on her collarbone, on the left side of her rib cage and on the right forearm. She also had serious abrasions on a shin bone and blood pooling at the right hip. During her interviews, police said, Hilt gave conflicting accounts of why her child showed multiple bruises. When she was first interviewed, on the day Nina died, she told a detective that the child was in an accident at their home. "The mother of the victim stated the child fell down the stairs. . . . The child was not taken for treatment," the affidavit said. "The family then got in their vehicle . . . and drove from North Carolina to . . . Manassas. The mother of the child stated the child threw up two times while they were en route to Virginia. "Four days later, according to the criminal complaint, Hilt said that she erupted into a "state of anger and rage" and detailed how she attacked her daughter. �Obviously, we are taking this seriously,� said J. Regan Wilson, an assistant commonwealth�s attorney. �A 2-year-old baby died at the hands of her mother.� Law enforcement officials declined to say why Hilt became infuriated with her daughter and said the investigation is ongoing. Hilt has a court hearing Aug. 2. Police said a second-degree murder conviction carries a prison sentence of five to 40 years.
July 12 Moscow Times Russian Prosecution Doubts the Legitimacy of Adoption of Russian Girl Killed by U.S. Russia�s Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky has instructed the Irkutsk Prosecutor�s Office to check whether the adoption of a Russian girl beaten to death by her U.S. foster mother was legitimate, Itar-Tass reported Saturday. The Irkutsk region center for psychological and social help has been shocked by the news about the death of an Irkutsk-born girl adopted by a U.S. family, center�s sources told Itar-Tass on Saturday. �The death of little Nina came absolutely unexpected for us,� the director of the center, Olga Savinova, said. She said the Hill family adopting the girl, had produced a most favorable impression as a united loving family.�The Office of the Prosecutor General will see to it that the law on control over the position of Russian children in adoptive families abroad be implemented in full,� the sources said.
Nina Victoria Hilt (formerly Bazhenova), born in northern Russia on Oct. 11, 2002, was adopted a year and a half ago by a U.S. couple. On July 2, 2005 Peggy Hilt reported the death of her daughter. She later admitted getting angry with the girl and hitting her, which caused her death shortly afterwards

Update: August 8, charges have been dropped to manslaughter