In January while on a trip to Malawi, pop star Madonna denied that she was there to adopt more children. She said that all she was going to do was visit a children's hospital. But reports have surfaced that she was allowed to adopt twin girls from the country.
Daily Mail reports that the High Court in Malawi made a ruling that she can go forward with her adoption. There was some controversy with the process she went through when she first adopted orphans from the country. Locals were accusing the government of preferential treatment of the pop star. They say that non-residents of the country were not allowed to adopt children.
Madonna has previously adopted already from Malawi. She adopted her son David Banda in 2006, and her daughter Mercy James in 2009. The twin girls that she will be adopting are named Stella and Esther. The Guardian reports that the four-year-old girls are from the Home of Home Orphanage in Mchinji. It is the same place where son David Banda lived before being adopted by the singer.
Madonna was reportedly in the courtroom, along with the children's biological father, when the ruling was given out. The family is expected to leave the country in a private jet soon. The ruling for the adoption is apparently conditional.
A guardian from the Malawi government, Dominic Misomale, will accompany Madonna and the twins to their new home in the United States. He will observe the care that the kids will get from their new mother, and then go back to his country to file a report.
Madonna's children now number six. The twins Esther and Stella will be the youngest of the brood, joining Lourdes, Rocco, David and Mercy. Madonna has not been as active in the music scene lately, but she did show her support for Hillary Clinton during the Presidential Elections 2016.
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