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

[Anonymous]

Can they appeal this to the Supreme Court? Not that they stand much chance of success there either with SCOTUS being what it is.

This is disgusting, and rewarding the Masts for lying and taking this baby when it was against the law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disgusting, but at this point, probably in the best interest of the child sadly.

So Canadians and Europeans should start taking American babies because they have a greater chance of growing up safely there with less fear of violence?

+1 This is an incredibly dangerous path that the Virginia courts are going down...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disgusting, but at this point, probably in the best interest of the child sadly.

So Canadians and Europeans should start taking American babies because they have a greater chance of growing up safely there with less fear of violence?

touche

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They shouldn’t have done all that but can we agree it is better for the baby to grow up in the U.S. than Afghanistan? Especially a girl

I do not agree. Just wait till she gets grabbed by ICE and thrown in a detention center with no way out for months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They shouldn’t have done all that but can we agree it is better for the baby to grow up in the U.S. than Afghanistan? Especially a girl

How is life in Afghanistan relevant. One couple is in VA, and one in TX.

[Anonymous]

How do the people who are posting here want this story to end?
With the kid in foster care and being taken in by cos, with some distant relative from Afghanistan living in Texas, or being sent back?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They shouldn’t have done all that but can we agree it is better for the baby to grow up in the U.S. than Afghanistan? Especially a girl

How is life in Afghanistan relevant. One couple is in VA, and one in TX.

NP. What the VA couple did is wrong, since it sounds like they lied to get what they wanted. It also sounds like the Afghan couple would still be in Afghanistan if Mast hadn’t asked for them to he added to the list.

[Anonymous]

They used government resources to kidnap a child. We've really embraced child trafficking in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They shouldn’t have done all that but can we agree it is better for the baby to grow up in the U.S. than Afghanistan? Especially a girl

How is life in Afghanistan relevant. One couple is in VA, and one in TX.

NP. What the VA couple did is wrong, since it sounds like they lied to get what they wanted. It also sounds like the Afghan couple would still be in Afghanistan if Mast hadn’t asked for them to he added to the list.

Yes, this is correct. That Afghan couple got to move to America because Mast wanted the baby. It's horrible, but they actually benefitted in that sense. I will say that there is genuinely room for suspicion that the couple involved are related to her (although, if they are not, the scheme was the man's father's originally, not his own; they also may not know for sure either way); they have refused to do DNA on the grounds that it's not definitive, but actually DNA could definitively rule them out of the relationship they claim to have. None of that makes what Mast nor the court did correct, but I think Moore's second decision was genuinely motivated by his somewhat supported belief that the Afghan family was lying.

[Anonymous]

^^ I think this is part of why the Masts are moving to unmask the couple. The couple got protection on the grounds that the Taliban might go after their family remaining in Afghanistan, but there's no reason to think that's true at all; the Taliban has supported their claim to the child (really, they've unsurprisingly rejected US interference in the case) and they left Afghanistan for medical care, not to flee the Taliban. I think the Masts think if their identity comes out people will come forward with evidence that they are not actually blood-related to the girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ I think this is part of why the Masts are moving to unmask the couple. The couple got protection on the grounds that the Taliban might go after their family remaining in Afghanistan, but there's no reason to think that's true at all; the Taliban has supported their claim to the child (really, they've unsurprisingly rejected US interference in the case) and they left Afghanistan for medical care, not to flee the Taliban. I think the Masts think if their identity comes out people will come forward with evidence that they are not actually blood-related to the girl.

Haven't the Masts done enough?!

The ONLY reason they are being allowed to keep her is because the "adoption" is more than 6 months old (it is several years old at this point) and it would do more harm to remove her from the only home she probably remembers/knows. All of their delay tactics worked. That's the reason, the only reason they win.

[Anonymous]

The Afghan couple (who the husband claims is the child's first cousin) has consistently refused to undergo DNA testing.

An investigative reporter went to Afghanistan and villagers said a foreign terrorist group who were light skinned set up camp in the village. The child who was orphaned had light hair and light-colored eyes, which is often consistent with families from regions like Chechnya or Uzbekista (common origins for foreign Al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan) rather than the local ethnic groups in that specific Afghan province that does not look like the child. If she were orphaned in another part of Afghanistan then it might be more plausible but in that area there aren't blond kids.

It was only months later this relative came forward who refuses to have DNA testing done.

Now add to that the orphan girl has FOUR FULL biological siblings in TEXAS. They ALL refuse to have DNA testing done and not one of them look like the orphan girl with light features.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Afghan couple (who the husband claims is the child's first cousin) has consistently refused to undergo DNA testing.

An investigative reporter went to Afghanistan and villagers said a foreign terrorist group who were light skinned set up camp in the village. The child who was orphaned had light hair and light-colored eyes, which is often consistent with families from regions like Chechnya or Uzbekista (common origins for foreign Al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan) rather than the local ethnic groups in that specific Afghan province that does not look like the child. If she were orphaned in another part of Afghanistan then it might be more plausible but in that area there aren't blond kids.

It was only months later this relative came forward who refuses to have DNA testing done.

Now add to that the orphan girl has FOUR FULL biological siblings in TEXAS. They ALL refuse to have DNA testing done and not one of them look like the orphan girl with light features.

I am confused. You seem to think that the relatives might not be her second/third cousin, but are convinced that the 4 other children they have are her full biological siblings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do the people who are posting here want this story to end?
With the kid in foster care and being taken in by cos, with some distant relative from Afghanistan living in Texas, or being sent back?

With the family that was raising her, who are now in Texas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ I think this is part of why the Masts are moving to unmask the couple. The couple got protection on the grounds that the Taliban might go after their family remaining in Afghanistan, but there's no reason to think that's true at all; the Taliban has supported their claim to the child (really, they've unsurprisingly rejected US interference in the case) and they left Afghanistan for medical care, not to flee the Taliban. I think the Masts think if their identity comes out people will come forward with evidence that they are not actually blood-related to the girl.

Also it would be really convenient for the Masts if this administration who supported their petition to steal this baby pulled the visas of her family and sent them back to Afghanistan.