Does Zahara's Birth Mother Want To Take Her Back From Angelina Jolie? - Page 3
Although Girma told The Mail on Sunday that he worked for the adoption agency and has distributed business cards claiming he represents it, Wide Horizons For Children says he is not an employee but is employed by an orphanage in Awassa. It does not deny, however, that it was he who brought Zahara to its officials.
The mother, for her part, seems bitter at the way in which the whole business was conducted, but philosophical at the prospects of Zahara's future with Angelina as opposed to her:
"What he has done is tantamount to kidnap," Mentewab claimed bitterly."He took my daughter and just disappeared with her saying I was dead."
She recognises that Zahara has far better prospects with Angelina and Brad Pitt.
"She will have a better life with Angelina. If she had stayed with me she could have died.
"I'm happy to see my daughter in a better life, in a better place. The thing that makes me upset is that Angelina is saying I'm dead – I'm alive and have never had AIDS."
She would also like Angelina to bring her daughter to visit her birthplace and family.
"She must know her country, she must know her family, that's where her identity is," she added.
For Angelina Jolie, champion of the dispossessed, it would be a simple task.
You can hardly blame Mentewab for running away. A young, scared girl, faced with trying to feed two people and an infant on one small paycheck, and sometimes having only a piece of bread to eat all day, I'm sure she felt overwhelmed at the pressures facing her. No, she should not have run off, but she was a frightened, poorly-educated girl in an impoverished part of the world, faced with a situation that she didn't know how to handle.
The grandmother made the only choice she could in light of what she now faced, which was how to feed both herself and her granddaughter on no money. Based on the information the grandmother received, she thought that by giving her granddaughter up for adoption that she would still be able to be a small part of her life, and if her mother came back that she would also be given that same courtesy.
It would seem, however, that the paperwork was either mishandled or falsified to make it seem that Mentewab had died and the grandmother was giving the granddaughter away. Since the grandmother can't read, anything could have been written on the paper that she signed and she would not have known.
For her part, Mentewab does not want Zahara to be taken from Angelina:
Mentewab Dawit said she has never challenged the adoption and she is happy her daughter has found a home with the actress. Continued on the next page
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