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Madonna Wanted to Adopt, But Not 'Real' Orphans New accusations in the case of the international adoption arise	By Elena Gorgan, Entertainment News Editor 6th of November 2006, 08:39 GMT Adjust text size:

If Madonna thought the live interview she gave on Oprah's show would quieten down angry voices about the adoption of the little boy, David Banda, she couldn't have been more wrong. Instead of helping the matters rest, all that the statement the singer made via satellite connection did was to make people, and the press in particular, speculate as to the interview being nothing but a way to make amends for something that was wrong and a way of pleading with the public. Among the allegations that appear almost daily both in the British and the American press are also those that Madonna used her superstar status to bypass the regular phases and laws of international adoption, that she adopted the child as a means to ensure that she gets more publicity for her latest children's book, 'The English Roses: Too Good To Be True' and that she fooled the boy's father into believing that she would be taking David only for as long as his education is overseen. But the most bitter allegations and accusations come from the very orphanage where David was staying at the time of the diva's visit to Malawi. Lucy Chipeta, executive director of the Home for Hope orphanage claims that the new mother refused to listen to those who told her not to adopt a boy who already had a father and did exactly as she pleased. Chipeta says, in an interview with 'The Sunday Times', that Madonna was advised to take home a child who had no parents to look after him/her and to leave David be, especially as his father (the illiterate farmer) cycled more than 36 kilometers for at least three times a week to come and see him. 'Of course this was a chance for David, but he had a parent. There are other desperate children and we would have loved her to take one of them', the executive director added. Initially, the singer did not fail to respond to the statement, saying that, at the time of her visit, she was unaware of David's family background, only to change her mind last week and claim that she knew for a fact that the little boy was neglected by his father, a thing that became soon a strong reason to take him home (the other one being that he was sick of pneumonia). But the representatives of the orphanage are not that willing to change their mind in the near future. Chipeta was more than determined when she said, in the same interview, that they would be doing all that is in their ability to stop the adoption from becoming permanent. 'He [David's father] was so close to his son we had doubts that he was going to allow David to go away', the executive director concluded by saying.

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