Cliccando il nostro titolo verrete portati ad un articolo del Daily Mail, quotidiano inglese, che tratta dell'ultima vicenda di Madonna, la nota cantante americana, che voleva adottare una bambina del Malawi, stato africano stretto tra Zambia, Mozambico e Sudafrica. Il Giudice Esme Chombo, che vedete in fotografia, avrebbe negato l'adozione per motivi sostanziali ma appellandosi ad un articolo della legge del Malawi che impone che chi adotta un bimbo del paese africano risieda nello stesso. Madonna non avrebbe la residenza in Malawi e così le è stata negata l'adozione di quest'ultima bambina.
Esme Chombo ha motivato il diniego appellandosi a Chesterton che diceva: "Non abbattere mai uno steccato fin quando non sai la ragione per cui era stato fatto" ed ha spiegato l'importanza della residenza in Malawi per chi adotta, dicendo anche che un'adozione può anche avere delle conseguenze gravi sulla vita del bambino e che quindi essa va adeguatamente ponderata.
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Judge who quotes G.K.Chesterton and said No to ‘Ms Madonna’
The judge who presided over Madonna’s adoption hearing impressed the world with her eloquent and heartfelt judgment, which was unceremoniously pinned to the door of Lilongwe’s High Court after Friday’s ruling.
She is Mrs Esme Chombo, a quiet conservative woman in her early 60s who has more than ten years of experience in adoption cases.
She was unequivocal in her ruling that Madonna did not meet a residency requirement, the main reason for her refusing the adoption application, and quoted writer and journalist G.K. Chesterton in support of her decision.
She said: ‘As wisely put by G.K. Chesterton, “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up,” and spelt out the importance of residency in Malawi for foreigners wanting to adopt the country’s children.
She said: ‘Ms Madonna may not be the only international person interested in adopting the so-called poor children of Malawi.
‘By removing the very safeguard that is supposed to protect our children, the courts, by their pronouncements, could actually facilitate trafficking of children.
‘Anyone could come to Malawi and could quickly arrange for an adoption that might have very grave consequences.’
Mrs Chombo has heard hundreds of adoption cases as resident magistrate in the southern Malawi city of Blantyre.
One of her fellow lawyers told The Mail on Sunday: ‘She is a woman of great integrity and experience. Malawi’s adoption laws are currently rather vague and there is a law commission report before Cabinet which should change that.’
Mrs Chombo, one of Malawi’s few female judges, earns about £3,000 a month. Her husband is an executive with a sugar-producing firm.
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