Madonna Adoption Plans in Peril

Monday, August 06, 2007

Almost a year after making her initial adoption application, Madonna could be on the verge of receiving the final judgment on Malawian child David Banda.

And at the moment, things look like they will not go in favor of one of America’s most successful pop stars.

Madonna filed her adoption papers for Malawian boy David Banda on 10 October last year.  After securing a visa and passport for the baby, born 24 September 2005, Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie have been looking after the baby – who they have renamed David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie – ever since.

However, problems have arisen overseeing the adoption progress.  Penstone Kimble was assigned the case to ensure Madonna and Guy were suitable parents for the youngster.  This task involved two visits to London – that the Ritchies had to pay for – by Kimble.

The money was supposed to go through Malawian court but Kimble has received his tickets directly from Madonna, without government approval, and he has now been banned from travelling to the UK because he has personalized the issue, affecting his neutrality.

Kimble has been banned by the Malawian Minister of Women and Child Development Kate Kainja who said, “We have already contacted Madonna that someone else and not Kilembe will come to assess her because we feel Mr Kilembe personalized the whole issue when other people can go.”

David Banda had originally been put in an orphanage by his father Yohane Banda when his wife died.  When Madonna found the youngster he was suffering from pneumonia after surviving tuberculosis and malaria. At the time she said, “I wanted to go into a Third World country, I wasn’t sure where, and give a life to a child who might not otherwise have had one.”

Another complication to the matter is one of Madonna’s ex-boyfriends who has used this time to try to sell some naked pictures of the female singer that she sent him whilst they were dating.