Just like little Davie Banda, whose father was too poor to keep him but is still very much alive, Madonna has set her sites on a little Malawian girl who still has living family. Madonna has denied that a second adoption is in the works, but she said the same thing just before adopting David and her husband recently admitted it was a “possibility” that they would adopt again. This news was out two weeks ago, but photo agency Fame just published more family photos and news of Mercy, who is around two, today. Mercy stays at an orphanage and Madonna met her during a visit to Malawi last year, but she has a living grandmother and uncle who do not want her to leave the country. Here’s the back story:
However, the girl’s gran Lucy Chekechiwa, 60, said she has been asked repeatedly by officials if Mercy could be adopted by an “unidentified foreign family” — but was firmly against it.
Speaking from her village in Zomba District, Lucy said: “We know that it is Mercy who Madonna really wants. We heard it is because my granddaughter is such a beautiful, happy child.
“Twice I have told the adoption people that I do not want Mercy to go outside the country.
“But they keep on at us. Now they say that Mercy will be leaving us, but can return at age 18. Yet I might not be alive then.”
However, the girl’s gran Lucy Chekechiwa, 60, said she has been asked repeatedly by officials if Mercy could be adopted by an “unidentified foreign family” — but was firmly against it.
Speaking from her village in Zomba District, Lucy said: “We know that it is Mercy who Madonna really wants. We heard it is because my granddaughter is such a beautiful, happy child.
“Twice I have told the adoption people that I do not want Mercy to go outside the country.
“But they keep on at us. Now they say that Mercy will be leaving us, but can return at age 18. Yet I might not be alive then.”
The Sun revealed how Madge, who also has daughter Lourdes, 11, and son Rocco, eight, was given permission to adopt Mercy last August — but had to stop when the girl’s uncle John Nglanade, 36, blocked the application.
[From The Sun]
Now Mercy’s grandmother says the officials have stepped up the pressure to let her granddaughter be adopted. Malawian law dictates that prospective parents stay in the country for a year before adopting, but that didn’t stop Madonna the last time.
The grandmother of the three-year-old girl pop diva Madonna wants to adopt has complained that Malawian adoption officials are pestering her to allow the singer to adopt the girl. Lucy Chekechiwa claims she was visited by three officials from the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare just days after newspaper reports suggested the material girl had stepped up her efforts to give a home to her orphaned granddaughter Mercy James. Now after confirming that ‘a rich female singer’ wants to adopt Mercy, whose mother died during child birth, the 60-year-old claims she was even shown pictures of David Banda in a bid to show her the type of life Mercy could expect. “Three people from the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare were here on Wednesday trying to convince us of the benefits of giving up Mercy for adoption,” said 60-year-old Lucy Chekechiwa sitting in front of her mud-brick-thatch hut in Zomba, east of the commercial capital, Blantyre. “They told me a certain rich female singer from America.”
[From Fame Pictures photo description]
Just like with Davie, Madonna has set her sites on an adorable infant who could live with their family again and live pretty well if only Madonna would deem to have some livestock sent over. I know this is vastly simplifying the situation, but it’s basically true. She’s building orphanages over there, she could improve entire villages just as easily with the resources she has. Instead she wants to take children home with her and away from their families.
Meanwhile Madonna is on tour, and just performed in Nice, France last night. Her pre-stage preparations included a massage, facial, and warm up exercises with free weights.
Photos of Mercy’s family credit: BARM/Fame Pictures. Madonna is shown performing in Nice on 8/26/08.
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