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[vampporcupine]

Madonna denies Malawian access to adopted girl
Sun Aug 29, 7:37 AM
 

CAPE TOWN (AFP) - Pop superstar Madonna will not allow a man who claims to be the biological father of her adopted Malawian daughter to see the four-year-old, a South African newspaper reported on Sunday.


James Kambewa, 26, who is working as a waiter in Durban, had hoped to meet Mercy whom the wealthy star adopted last year but Madonna's spokeswoman Barbara Charone said the child's father was not known.


"The extended family members had no knowledge of a father. The village leadership had no knowledge of a father... the mother was raped and left," the Sunday Times quoted Charone as saying.


Mercy was controversially adopted from an orphanage by the 52-year-old pop star after the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned a lower court that blocked the placement. She is Madonna's second adopted Malawian child.


"There was a three-week window between the oral arguments (in court) and the decision, when the man could have made his claim. Again nothing," said Charone.


"Moreover, the Ministry of Gender has recommended that it would be in the child's best interest not to engage with anyone claiming to be a parent or guardian."


The court listed Mercy's biological father as unknown and said that she was born in January 2006 to a 14-year-old mother who died days after giving birth.


Kambewa vowed last year to fight the adoption bid, saying media reports had alerted him to the child whom he thought had also died with her mother, with whom he said he had a relationship. The age of consent in Malawi is 14.


He told the Sunday Times earlier this month that he was happy the star was looking after Mercy but hoped to meet her one day.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100829/world/entertainment_malawi_children_people_madonna

[Hanne]

something smells fishy here. 

[Cedar]

a simple DNA test would confirm if he was the father or not.  and i am very suspicious about this "3 week window" he was given to contest the adoption -- did anyone give him personal notice? or was it just an advertisdment in some distant newspaper?  how was he to know?

but for Madonna to be a selfish pig and not let the child's father to have any relationship with her, well, it shows how much purchasing a child gives a person the sense of ownership, entitlement, and possessiveness. 

[vampporcupine]

a simple DNA test would confirm if he was the father or not.  and i am very suspicious about this "3 week window" he was given to contest the adoption -- did anyone give him personal notice? or was it just an advertisdment in some distant newspaper?  how was he to know?

but for Madonna to be a selfish pig and not let the child's father to have any relationship with her, well, it shows how much purchasing a child gives a person the sense of ownership, entitlement, and possessiveness. 

Exactly what I was thinking! I'm sure she could afford a simple dna test and the fact that HE WAS TOLD THE BABY DIED AT BIRTH!!!!!!! Funny how her other malawian daughter ALSO had custody issues!!! Her parents claimed that they DID NOT give thier daughter up for adoption and that...ooo..wait for it...she was stolen and given into Madonna's care!

[Hanne]

Yeah that pig also only sees the children she stole for 15 minute prescheduled appointments and has 6 nannies raising them. These children are just a possesion to her like a car, boat or house.