The Boy from Baby House 10 and one in Groupa House 3

The Boy From Baby House 10

From the Nightmare of a Russian Orpahanage to a New Life in America

by Alan Philps and John Lahutsky

St. Martins Press, New York 2009

There is an amazing story of a young man, John Lahutsy who was in Baby House 10 in Russia, who was adopted by Paula Lahutsky, a school psychologist from Pleasant Valley School District, my home school district!!!! What an amazing coincidence! Paula had evaluated all three of my children at different times in their school career and I remember when she was adopting John from Russia with cerebral palsy!! John was in a Baby House with the most involved children, and had he not spoken up for himself and someone went to 'bat for him' , he would still be there lying in a crib in unthinkable conditions!!! This is a must read book for anyone who is thinking of adopting or knows anyone who is adopting!!! His amazing story will encourage you to fight for these children!!!
His story has been repeated in Vorzel (and I imagine in other orphanages as well) ! I found blond hair, blue eyed Ruslan(pictures above) also with cerebral palsy in the back of Groupa House 3! Ruslan was soon to be trasferred to the internat and NO adoption agency knew of him! Recently Ruslan had surgery, just like John did, and spent weeks in a hospital recuperating alone! Had it not been for his facilitator and Sasha Skyrpak, a missionary from Almaz Church, he would not even have had pain medication and decent food to eat! Imagine a child going through surgery alone!!! But Ruslan won't be alone for long!! He now has a family in Virginia in the process of adopting him!!! Please pray it goes through soon so Ruslan can get the medical attention and therapy he so badly needs here in America with his FOREVER FAMILY!! The picture above is the one I snapped of Ruslan shortly before I was called to the adminstration building for questioning about what I was doing! See John's site for pictures of him as well as his efforts to help the orphans!!

For more information about this amazing young man who is such an inspiration and to order his book go to JohnLahutsky.com