By Will Stewart In Moscow Miserable: Sofia Petrova, 17, has begged her mother to let her return to the U.S. from Siberia A disruptive teen whose mother sent her - literally - to Siberia is begging to come home to America after claiming she was beaten by her father and was so miserable she tried to commit suicide. Two years ago Natalia Roberts, 36, from Virginia dispatched her daughter Sofia Petrova, then 15, on a one-way trip to cold eastern Russia after a succession of arguments over her behavior. Sofia, then a typical American teenager attending Chantilly High School, was born in Siberia and has a Siberian father - but she hadn't lived there since she was two and did not speak any Russian.
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Sofia Petrova was 15 when her mother sent her to Siberia for 3 weeks to meet her father - but she was not allowed to come home
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She and her parents say she was misbehaved at home, where she stole money and disobeyed her mother's rules
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Her mom says she can only return when she has shown she has changed
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Sofia, who insists she has changed, says her father beat her and she tried to commit suicide while in a children's center in Siberia
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She now lives in a hotel where she works 60 hours a week
Plea: She has written yet another letter (pictured) to her mother, who lives in @placeholder, but she said that she is not helping to speed up her return.
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