Officials Confirm that Madonna Is Adopting A Little Girl Named Mercy From Malawi

March 27, 2009 by tiffanyb
Filed under: Celebrity Baby News

Malawi’s Child Welfare Services has confirmed that Madonna is adopting a little 3-year old girl from Malawi.

It is now official that Madonna is adopting another Malawian child. The Director of Malawi’s Child Welfare Services has confirmed that Madonna is adopting a 3-year old girl named Mercy James from Malawi. “The adoption is going ahead. It has been at an advanced stage for some time,” said the Director to Us Magazine.

An official at the ministry of Gender and Child Development also confirmed the adoption to Reuters, saying, the little girl is from, “”Mchinji Home of Hope orphanage. She has no father and mother, they both died…We finished the assessment yesterday in readiness for the courts next week.”

Madonna is due in court on Madonna for the adoption process, but officials are also saying that her love life may hinder the adoption process. “Our official policy is that we do not encourage our children to be sent into broken homes,” an official from Malawi’s Child Welfare Services said. “Her relationships may negatively affect the adoption of Mercy.” Madonna just divorced her husband Guy Ritchie and was first linked with baseball player Alex Rodriguez and is now dating model Jesus Luz, who is over 20 years younger than her.

This would be Madonna’s fourth child. She has two biological childen, Lourdes and Rocco, and then she has David, who was adopted from Malawi two years ago.