Virginia couple sued by Afghan refugees of crazy scheme to kidnap their baby

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they get prosecuted for human trafficking.

This is not human trafficking. Using the wrong words just makes people ignore both issues.

Not sure what "both issues" you are referring to.

So maybe they don't meet the narrow us legal definition of human trafficking. They are still terrible people.
Could you imagine being that kid and finding out what happened to you? That your parents were capable of deceit and trickery to manipulate others to get whatever they wanted.
It would make me question my parents and my relationship with them and I would most certainly distance myself. I would also be suspect of them at all times after finding that out. I would wonder what other things they had done.

Everything thinks its no big deal bc she is a baby. Duh, babies grow into adults.

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Anonymous wrote:This story makes me very sad for the child. I know the Masts think they are doing the right thing, but I hope the courts get it straightened out and return the child to the relatives.

The Masts are attempting to kidnap someone’s child. The fact that you excuse that is horrifying.

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Anonymous wrote:This case also involves on the defendant side: Women for Afghan Women/ Virginia Community Center in Alexandria and its general counsel Kimberly Motley who tracked down the guardians/cousins in Afghanistan, and lied to them that the Masts were trying to help them get medical treatment for the baby. The Masts had never even met the baby before it came to the US. This story is absolutely nuts.

Kimberly Motley, Joshua Mast and his brother all need to lose their law licenses.

That's what makes this story really pernicious. In some of the ICWA, at least the child was actually placed with the family in most cases, so they had some sort of relationship. This is literally just, they believed they were entitled to this baby.

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Anonymous wrote:Since the baby is a girl, I hope she gets to stay with the American couple. Her life will be crap otherwise.

A real-life Gone, Baby, Gone

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Wow, the details in that WaPo story are just crazy. The American family sounds completely calculated, manipulative and sociopathic.

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Where does it say the lawyer Mast had never seen the baby in Afghanistan?

Why did he want this baby so much? He should've stepped aside 3 months after starting this when the Red Cross found the baby's family.

[Anonymous]

Masts would be Gilead commanders for sure. We need to keep these Christian baby stealing people out of power.

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Anonymous wrote:This story makes me very sad for the child. I know the Masts think they are doing the right thing, but I hope the courts get it straightened out and return the child to the relatives.

Bullshat. The Masts are nothing more than a zealots who think they are better than others. Reminds me of those Christian missionaries who go into other countries causing more havoc and hell before their arrival as they withhold medicine and food unless they can convert you to their religion.

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Anonymous wrote:Masts would be Gilead commanders for sure. We need to keep these Christian baby stealing people out of power.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Where does it say the lawyer Mast had never seen the baby in Afghanistan?

Why did he want this baby so much? He should've stepped aside 3 months after starting this when the Red Cross found the baby's family.

I agree, why was he like a dog without a bone about this child? That alone is concerning, and then there is the lying, perjury, kidnapping, etc. Are the marines looking into his behavior? What horrible people.

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Ugh, WITH a bone, not without

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where does it say the lawyer Mast had never seen the baby in Afghanistan?

Why did he want this baby so much? He should've stepped aside 3 months after starting this when the Red Cross found the baby's family.

I agree, why was he like a dog without a bone about this child? That alone is concerning, and then there is the lying, perjury, kidnapping, etc. Are the marines looking into his behavior? What horrible people.

And they have multiple children already - the Wapo article references their "sons." This was all to get a girl? Or to fulfill some bizarre Christian commandment to adopt? Make it make sense.

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I’m confused how an US court can grant guardianship of a child that wasn’t American or on American soil.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m confused how an US court can grant guardianship of a child that wasn’t American or on American soil.

“The baby had been rescued two years earlier from the rubble of a U.S. military raid that killed her parents and five siblings. After months in a U.S. military hospital, she had gone to live with her cousin and his wife, this newlywed couple. Now, the family was bound for the United States for further medical treatment, with the aid of U.S. Marine Corps attorney Joshua Mast.

When the exhausted Afghans arrived at the airport in Washington, D.C., in late August 2021, Mast pulled them out of the international arrivals line and led them to an inspecting officer, according to a lawsuit they filed last month. They were surprised when Mast presented an Afghan passport for the child, the couple said. But it was the last name printed on the document that stopped them cold: Mast.

They didn’t know it, but they would soon lose their baby.

This is a story about how one U.S. Marine became fiercely determined to bring home an Afghan war orphan, and praised it as an act of Christian faith to save her. Letters, emails and documents submitted in federal filings show that he used his status in the U.S. Armed Forces, appealed to high-ranking Trump administration officials and turned to small-town courts to adopt the baby, unbeknownst to the Afghan couple raising her 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) away.”

The whole story is bonkers.
https://apnews.com/article/afghan-baby-us-marine-custody-battle-b157557538b84b288a0a8415735e24ab

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused how an US court can grant guardianship of a child that wasn’t American or on American soil.

If you read the initial complaint, the absurdity of the absence of any basis for the Masts to have a legitimate claim to custody or for Fluvanna County to have jurisdiction is totally nuts. The Afghan couple appears to be represented by very good attorneys at Hunton, so hopefully they stand a good chance of prevailing.