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

[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.

[Anonymous]

I think the Mast children should be in foster care, and fast traked for adoption. People who engage in child trafficking should not be allowed to parent.

I think the little girl at the center of this should be returned to the people that the country of which she was a citizen (Afghanistan) determined to be her family. I don't actually think that DNA testing is relevant, because the US should not be allowed to determine who is her family.

[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.

Oh so the Afghan baby stolen by the white evangelical couple is light skinned with blond hair and light colored eyes? Quelle surprise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it.

So many adoptive parents and baby sellers in the 50s and 60s thought they were doing the right thing. Now we all know, including those who are still alive, that it was human trafficking. These people definitely know it's not the right thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Oh so the Afghan baby stolen by the white evangelical couple is light skinned with blond hair and light colored eyes? Quelle surprise.

Funny how there is no news source for all this info about the orphan girl and her Afghan family. Because people are just making up rumors here to justify the white saviors stealing an Afghan baby from its relatives and pushing through an illegitimate adoption through some hick Virginia judge who believed that the Marine had the baby’s best interests at heart even though the federal government clearly said it was illegal to remove a baby from a country and place it for adoption with a foreign family without permission of the government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stealing a baby at a refugee camp is wild even for this country. The fact that the Marines are cool with this, and did nothing to punish Mast for taking the baby, despite saying he acted with conduct unbecoming to a Marine is even crazier.

Taking a baby in the country where you're not a citizen and refusing to return it, just makes others abroad more vulnerable to harm.

The Masts are Evangelical Christian. They believe God wanted them to save this child from Afghanistan (and Hell, presumably). In fact they've gotten a lot of lobbying and support from Evangelical Christian networks, which is what made this sleazy adoption possible.

Mast is a military lawyer, so he knew what he was doing was against international law and knew he was misleading his chain of command and improperly using his position and influence. He knew that the VA court was his best chance because they rubber-stamp adoptions all the time, and he knows adoptions are seldom overturned in VA. He venue shopped to make it harder for the Afghan family to get their child back.

And the Marines didn't even slap him on the wrist.

This.