Father Wanted Madonna's Adopted Child Back

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LONDON (Oct. 16) - The father of the Malawian child pop star Madonna wants to adopt said on Sunday he had not originally planned to give up his son for good when he handed him to an orphanage after the death of his wife last year.

Yohane Banda told a British newspaper he put his son David in an orphanage when he was just over one month old, fearing that he was ill with malaria, which killed his two other sons.

"I suppose deep in my heart I always imagined that when he was better, or I had got another wife, I would go and take him back," Banda told the Daily Mail on Sunday. "I did not think anyone would want to take him away."

On Monday, a small private jet carrying the one-year-old Malawian boy took off from the southern African country on Monday, a Reuters witness said.

The child, David Banda, was accompanied by one of Madonna 's bodyguards on his flight out of his native Malawi and is believed to be en route to Johannesburg.

Human rights groups had planned to file an application on Monday asking the court to block the adoption.

Banda, 31, said he and his family had agreed to allow Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie to adopt the child, believing it would give him the chance to receive a good education and grow up healthy.

"He will always be in my heart. I hate to see him leave Malawi but I have come to accept the loss," Banda said. "The government people told me it would be a good thing for the country. He will come back educated and able to help us."

Monday's events came less than a week after Malawi's High Court granted the entertainer and her filmmaker husband Guy Ritchie an interim order allowing them to take custody of the child.

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Until recently, Banda said he had no idea the woman seeking to adopt his one-year-old son was a world-famous celebrity. He said all he knew was that she was a "nice Christian lady."

Banda met Madonna in court in Malawi at an adoption hearing. He told the Mail he looked into her eyes and "could tell from them that she was a good lady."

Malawi's High Court granted the 48-year-old entertainer and her filmmaker husband an interim order allowing them to take custody of the boy less than a week ago but the adoption plan has sparked anger in Malawi and elsewhere.

Malawian law prohibits adoptions by non-residents, but officials granted an exemption or waiver to Madonna . Human rights groups are challenging that decision and plan to seek a court injunction on Monday to stop the adoption.

Eye of the Child, the leading child advocacy group in Malawi, said the request would be filed in a magistrate's court in the capital Lilongwe on behalf of about five dozen non-governmental organizations.

The pop icon, who already has two children, could also face hurdles in Britain, where she lives, because she has failed to register with a local authority for adoption, the Mail said.

Madonna and Ritchie, who arrived in Malawi on October 4 on what was described as a humanitarian trip, left on Friday without the child, who did not have a passport.

[Carol&Marc 0]

Until recently, Banda said he had no idea the woman seeking to adopt his one-year-old son was a world-famous celebrity. He said all he knew was that she was a "nice Christian lady."

Madonna a christian? didnt know that!

[almaty 19]

Until recently, Banda said he had no idea the woman seeking to adopt his one-year-old son was a world-famous celebrity. He said all he knew was that she was a "nice Christian lady."

Madonna a christian? didnt know that!

maybe the check bounced

[Mirorgate 0]

Until recently, Banda said he had no idea the woman seeking to adopt his one-year-old son was a world-famous celebrity. He said all he knew was that she was a "nice Christian lady."

Madonna a christian? didnt know that!

maybe the check bounced

"Devil Take You"

or something like that..??

[eric&gen 0]

From a ####### to nice Christian lady lol in my mind she will aways be a ####### lol he he he.

[Marc and Olga 0]

My, what little we ACTUALLY know about Madonna:

Her name is sometimes listed as "Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone," Veronica being her chosen confirmation name.

She was raised in a Catholic family in the Detroit suburbs of Pontiac and Rochester Hills.

From Madonna's Wiki entry...here.

[Artegal 1]

Who's human rights are being violated? The father put his son in an orphanage, at 1 month old--and 11 months later when Madonna wants to adopt him suddenly his rights are violated.

What about the little boy's rights? Or Madonna's rights? Why should this father that abandoned his son and obviously lives in a location that is dangerous for children--having two other sons died of malaria, and having thought his living son had malaria--have his rights above others?

He abdicated his rights when he put his son in the orphanage.

[Heracles 417]

I think you guys spelt her name wrong. her actually name is: Madoga

[eric&gen 0]

No its madsulta lol. THE girl who admits having sex with sevreal men.

[Welshcookie 17]

No its madsulta lol. THE girl who admits having sex with sevreal men.

Hell....guess I must be a ####### too.....several men??? oooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Alanlvsjudy 0]

No its madsulta lol. THE girl who admits having sex with sevreal men.

Umm several men isnt so bad, she admitted having sex with a BULL!!!!

(dont ask me how, im clueless)

Edited October 17, 2006 by Alanlvsjudy

[Veiled Princess 1]

Madonna a christian? didnt know that!

Sure she is... didn't she used to wear a cross on her necklace while she preformed "Like a virgin" on stage?? And don't forget.. her papa was a preacher

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Umm several men isnt so bad, she admitted having sex with a BULL!!!!

(dont ask me how, im clueless)

She meant the Chicago Bulls...

[Ban Hammer 14,283]

Umm several men isnt so bad, she admitted having sex with a BULL!!!!

(dont ask me how, im clueless)

She meant the Chicago Bulls...

all at the same time, or did they take numbers?

[Veiled Princess 1]

Umm several men isnt so bad, she admitted having sex with a BULL!!!!

(dont ask me how, im clueless)

She meant the Chicago Bulls...

all at the same time, or did they take numbers?

I imagine all at the same time would be difficult even for Madonna... surely they took turns