Madonna is rather pleased at the news she’s allowed to adopt Malawian tot Mercy James.
“I am extremely grateful for the Supreme Court’s ruling on my application to adopt Mercy James. I am ecstatic … My family and I look forward to sharing our lives with her,” the singer said in a statement through her spokesperson Friday.
Malawi’s highest court on Friday overturned the original ruling which denied the pop superstar’s adoption bid allowing her second adoption from the country.
The Supreme Court of Appeal said that a lower court failed to take modern realities into account in initially rejecting Madonna’s application to adopt the 3-year-old.
Previously, a judge and a lawyer told reporters that Madonna, 50, did not meet a requirement that prospective parents must be resident in the country for 18 to 24 months.
Mercy will now be flown on a private jet to be with Madonna and her children Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight, and David, three, in New York where she is expected to attend nursery school with David.
Sources at the High Court have revealed that Mercy could be with Madonna as early as next week. “Her passport is already being prepared — we’re not going to pause this over the weekend,” says a senior-level insider.
“Madonna and Mercy should be together by Wednesday [next week].”
Mercy is currently being transferred to the Kumbali lodge, which is where Madonna resides while staying in Malawi.
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