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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how an American can obtain a court order in the US to become the guardian and adopt a child who is a foreign citizen, lives abroad and is living with family abroad after parents’ death.

I mean, the American court system is not great, and we often elect judges in this country which means they are indepted to political actors such as the Masts.

[Anonymous]

I was already grossed out by Evangelicals from watching the Tammy Faye Baker movie (Jessica Chastain was great). It was so disturbing. This reinforces my impression

[Anonymous]

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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.

Because being raised by right-wing, uber conservative, evangelical Christians, who went to Liberty for undergrad and for law school, who claim all muslims are terrorists and think all afghanis raise their daughters to be either 1) suicide bombers, 2) child soldiers or 3) sex slaves is better. Versus being raised by your cousin and his wife, in America, surrounded by your culture, language, family.

GTFOH with your bigotry.

Why would they want an Afghani child if they are this racist?

Because Afghan children are caucasian.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Because being raised by right-wing, uber conservative, evangelical Christians, who went to Liberty for undergrad and for law school, who claim all muslims are terrorists and think all afghanis raise their daughters to be either 1) suicide bombers, 2) child soldiers or 3) sex slaves is better. Versus being raised by your cousin and his wife, in America, surrounded by your culture, language, family.

GTFOH with your bigotry.

Why would they want an Afghani child if they are this racist?

Lots of racists adopt kids of color. Particularly white Christian Domininionist racists who feel "called" to save the poor Black/brown children. Adoptee rights communities of FULL of stories of transracial and international adoptions where the kids of color were treated terribly by their white parents.

If you want to be horrified, read even just the first couple of paragraphs from this investigation of the "adoption rehoming" market. The vast majority of these kids are Black and brown, and many were adopted internationally: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/adoption/#article/part1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is mind boggling to me that someone would think they're doing the right thing here by taking this baby away.

If that little girl was going to be a victim of female genital mutilation, they DID do the right thing.

WTF is wrong with you????

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is mind boggling to me that someone would think they're doing the right thing here by taking this baby away.

If that little girl was going to be a victim of female genital mutilation, they DID do the right thing.

They don't do that there.

Jesus christ on a cracker. Y'all are SO IGNORANT and OFFENSIVE.

[Anonymous]

Whoever on this thread is saying Afghani, stop. It is Afghan.

Afghani is a currency.

And these people are Hazara, which is IMPORTANT.

The lack of basic knowledge about a country and the ethnic groups that live there when we were there for decades proves to me how dumb Americans are. I give up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how an American can obtain a court order in the US to become the guardian and adopt a child who is a foreign citizen, lives abroad and is living with family abroad after parents’ death.

The husband lied to the courts and then he was granted custody by a small-town, corrupt judge in rural Virginia who sealed all communications and documents about the case. The court clerk is not allowed to even confirm the existence of the case, per the AP article.

I'd love to know more about relationship between the Mast brothers and the judge. I bet they hunt or play golf together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a horrific story. I adopted internationally many years ago. Every potential adoptive parent is told by the State Department that you cannot adopt a child from a Muslim country. How did he get a visa or Afghan passport with his last name? Hague convention o adoption which stopped most International adoptions also forbids them s. Somebody’s ready needs to get this case quickly into federal court. If anyone knows who is representing Afghans please le me know. There are many people who could help pro bono

I think the passport must have been fraudulent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Because being raised by right-wing, uber conservative, evangelical Christians, who went to Liberty for undergrad and for law school, who claim all muslims are terrorists and think all afghanis raise their daughters to be either 1) suicide bombers, 2) child soldiers or 3) sex slaves is better. Versus being raised by your cousin and his wife, in America, surrounded by your culture, language, family.

GTFOH with your bigotry.

Why would they want an Afghani child if they are this racist?

Many of these people only want white kids. This is the closest to white they can get. It was quick/easier than a real adoption or there was another reason why they couldn't adopt. I know several shady situations like this and when families fought it the courts sided with the kidnappers.

Of course they do, that's perfectly natural. Wanting a baby that is the same as you is fine, not an indictment, as you're saying.

kidnapping a baby because you don’t want to adopt a black baby is not fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how an American can obtain a court order in the US to become the guardian and adopt a child who is a foreign citizen, lives abroad and is living with family abroad after parents’ death.

They lied to the court. They represented to the court that the Afghan government was going to allow the adoption and lied about the facts in Afghanistan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how an American can obtain a court order in the US to become the guardian and adopt a child who is a foreign citizen, lives abroad and is living with family abroad after parents’ death.

Is this limited to kidnapping or can I get a US county court also to provide documents that I'm the real owner of some real estate in central London or chateau in France?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoever on this thread is saying Afghani, stop. It is Afghan.

Afghani is a currency.

And these people are Hazara, which is IMPORTANT.

The lack of basic knowledge about a country and the ethnic groups that live there when we were there for decades proves to me how dumb Americans are. I give up.

+1 but this is to be expected. The imperial core never bothers to learn about the places it occupies/colonizes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how an American can obtain a court order in the US to become the guardian and adopt a child who is a foreign citizen, lives abroad and is living with family abroad after parents’ death.

That part of the story is very confusing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how an American can obtain a court order in the US to become the guardian and adopt a child who is a foreign citizen, lives abroad and is living with family abroad after parents’ death.

That part of the story is very confusing.

If you read the complaint it lays out the timeline. The Masts started almost immediately trying to get custody through their local court in Fluvanna County, Virginia. They’d never met this girl before nor had they ever talked to her family. But in 2019 they somehow got closed hearings and convinced a judge to grant them custody and then all they needed was to get the girl on American soil and then gotcha. It’s sick and twisted.

seriously, read the complaints and the responses.