48 Hours

The Perfect Child (13x19)

Air date: Feb 10, 2000

Crystal and Jesse wanted a family. So they decided to adopt. They went all the way to Russia and adopted two children. But their dream took a strange, difficult turn. They say one of the children, a nine-year-old girl, turned out to have deep emotional problems. Could they cope with their new dilemma? 48 Hours Correspondent Troy Roberts reports on this sad, complicated story.