Posted by Adam

Friday April 3, 2009

Madonna is said to be “furious” after a judge in Malawi denied her bid to adopt 4-year-old orphan Mercy.

Despite the Material Girl hitmaker’s lawyer being confident everything would go to plan, Madonna was told she could not take the tot back with her to her home in America because she was not a permanent resident of Malawi.

The ruling said, “Put simply courts do make law by the process of precedence and Miss Madonna may not be the only international person interested in adopting the so-called poor children of Malawi.

“By removing the very safeguard that is supposed to protect our children the courts by their pronouncements could actively facilitate trafficking of children by some unscrupulous individuals who would take advantage of the weakness of the law of the land.

“Anyone could come to Malawi and quickly arrange an adoption that might have grave consequences on the very children that the law seeks to protect.

“Having considered this then, at the end of the day I must decline to grant the application for the adoption of the infant CJ.”

Sources close to Madonna said she was “spitting blood” after the judge defied the Malawian government to deny the adoption.

Although more than 100 rights groups accused Malawian authorities of giving Madonna special treatment, the country’s government, which came under fire after Madonna adopted David Banda, said on Thursday it would support a second adoption.

The judge said, “According to information from global media the petitioner jetted into the country just days after making the application.

“I take judicial notice of the reports in the media that the last time that the Petitioner was in the country was in 2008 at the time of the final adoption order for David Banda.

“In my considered opinion this would completely remove the Petitioner from the definition of a resident as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary.”

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