What Madonna Wants, Madonna Gets...And She Wants Mercy
No, not that kind of mercy...a little girl by the name of Mercy James, from the country of Malawi:
The youngster was taken to a luxury lodge outside Lilongwe earlier this week, in preparation for being united with the singer, according to sources.Madonna is expected to stay in the south-east African country for a week before flying out with Mercy - bar any last-minute hitches. [...]
Mercy is being cared for by a nanny at Kumbali Lodge - where Madonna has stayed on her previous visits to the country. She had been living at an orphanage near Blantyre, in the south of Malawi.
Madonna had hoped to keep the fact that the child is already at the lodge a secret until leaving the country.
'Mercy has been handed over to Madonna's people, who are already at the lodge, and is being cared for by a nanny,' says the source.
'They are waiting for Madonna to arrive so mother and daughter can be united and then Madonna is expected to take Mercy with her when she leaves.' [...]
On Monday, the singer is expected to attend a court hearing in Lilongwe to formalise the adoption after having reportedly filed adoption papers.
If the judge refuses to rubber stamp the adoption, however, it will be a severe embarrassment to Madonna, now that Mercy is in the care of her staff.
It is being said that even though the little girl is already being cared for by Madonna's 'people', not everybody is as thrilled about the adoption as Madonna is:
From the start, Mercy's surviving family have been bitterly opposed to the idea of the little girl being taken by Madonna.Her uncle, John Ngalande, reportedly said in August last year: 'We won't surrender her. They told us how another Malawi kid has had his life transformed by her. I don't want that attention. We want an ordinary life.'
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