Zahara Jolie-Pitt's family wants her back

[purple rain]

Will Angie Lose Zahara?
The birth family of Angelina Jolie’s daughter wants her to bring Zahara home to Ethiopia

Angelina Jolie shares a special bond with her daughter Zahara, whom she adopted more than two years ago from Ethiopia. Malnourished and suffering from rickets, Zahara was days away from death when Angelina found her, bonded with her and nursed her back to health. Today, she cherishes time alone with her happy toddler, 2, and “chooses special stories” to read to her when they’re together, a pal says. But now a dark cloud of unhappiness hangs over their relationship. And Angelina’s worst nightmare may come true.

On June 20, 2006, Angelina proudly told CNN’s Anderson Cooper about the daughter she named Zahara. “She’s from Ethiopia. She’s an AIDS orphan,” Angelina said. But Zahara’s adoption papers, which an In Touch representative was shown on November 12, clearly states that Zahara has a grandmother and extended family alive in Africa— and the grandmother introduced In Touch to her daughter, who claims to be Zahara’s mother.

In 2005, the U.K.’s Sun also talked to the woman, who claimed to be Zahara’s birth mother. In the town of Awassa, 140 miles south of the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, In Touch spoke with that woman again. She’s very much alive, she doesn’t have AIDS — and she’d love to be with the child who was taken away. “I want my daughter to come home to see where she is from,” the woman who says she’s Zahara’s mother, Mentewab Dawit Lebiso, 24, tells In Touch. “Her grandmother and I both tried very hard to raise her, and I want her to come home to regain her identity.”

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[shoegal]

Get outta here!?! No, you can't have her back now. Her rich mommy & daddy will trek her back to Africa plenty of times.

She'll "know who she is" (*roll eyes*), don't you worry.

[sweetness]

Well, that's just too f*cking bad.

[purple rain]

According to Mentewab, Zahara was conceived when she was raped by a stranger who broke into her home. After the baby — whom she named Yemasrech, which means Good News — was born on January 7, 2005, she moved in with her mother and got a job as a laborer. But Mentewab became overwhelmed. “I thought the baby was going to die because there was no food, so I ran away,” she confesses.
Unable to care for her alone, Almaz says she brought the child to a local authority, explaining that her daughter had run away. Another man, who worked on behalf of WHFC, but was not an official employee, took the baby away and told the agency that her mother had died. “What he has done is equal to murder,” charges Mentewab. “He took my daughter away and he just disappeared with her. He said I was dead, but I heard from my mother that she never said that.”

[jive]

I doubt Z wants to go back to them

[NicoleWasHere]

Her biological mother wasn't able to take care of her. She was malnurished, for God's sake. At least she's healthy with Angelina, we can say that much.

[sweetness]

Yeah, I'm so sure little Z would just love to go back to living that hellish life.

[Sleuth]

i often wonder in these situations if the birth parent would have said anything if the adoptive parents weren't famous ...

[hotncmom]

Originally Posted by Sleuth

i often wonder in these situations if the birth parent would have said anything if the adoptive parents weren't famous ...

Yeah, it's like they're hoping Angelina will pay them off to shut them up.

[Trixiebelle]

^Exactly. I have to wonder what took her so long. A case of $$ signs in the eyes?

[pacific breeze]

^^Yes, with a cut to whoever found them and gave them the idea in the first place.

[tkdgirl]

Wow.

[Elvira]

I want her to come home

It's not going to happen unless AJ takes Zahara for a visit.

27/10/2005

Angelina Jolie is sighing with relief after an Ethiopian judge ruled she is the legal guardian of baby daughter Zahara. The actress feared she'd have to refile paperwork when the alleged mother of the little girl, who was believed to be dead, came forward to thank Jolie for giving her child a better life. Under Ethiopian law, the adoption papers needed to be refiled because details given about the baby's mother were incorrect. But Judge Dadnachew Tesfaye, who investigated the case, has declared Jolie did nothing wrong and the baby in now legally hers. He says, "The adoption is legal and still stands. The evidence presented to the court shows the child was an orphan. That is sufficient." Jolie adopted baby Zahara in June.

Source: Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - WENN - 27 October 2005

[NiceDude]

They can't take Z from us now.

[WhateverLolaWants]

No, not yours. Not the biggest Brangelina fan but seriously...you run away from your kid, your life, the baby gets adopted, you cannot say, "Whups, just kidding!"