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The home of U.S. singer Madonna and film director husband Guy Ritchie is seen in central London October 17, 2006.
David Banda, the one-year-old Malawian boy Madonna is seeking to adopt arrived in Britain on Tuesday, swapping the poverty of an African orphanage for the luxury of a superstar's London mansion.. Photo Credit: REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
Swapping the poverty of an African orphanage for the superstar's London mansion, David Banda flew into London with one of the U.S. singer's bodyguards and her personal assistant.
Malawian authorities waived local rules to grant Madonna and her British film director husband, Guy Ritchie, an interim adoption on Monday, prompting charges from rights groups that Madonna used her status to bypass normal rules.
Madonna, 48, is hoping to make David a brother to her nine-year-old daughter Lourdes, and her son, Rocco, who is five.
Malawian law bans adoptions by non-residents, but officials are granting an exemption to Madonna.
The interim order lasts for 18 months, giving Malawian courts time to evaluate the new parents. Around 50 rights groups have filed court documents asking for an injunction allowing them to block the adoption.
Paul Dimmick of the charity EveryChild told Reuters he was concerned that Madonna had been allowed to flout Malawi's adoption laws because of her international celebrity status.
"These laws are in place for a reason -- to protect the child. It doesn't matter who it is, the law is paramount and the interests of the child are paramount," he said.
Banda, who is leaving behind his father Yohane, will swap his home in a dilapidated orphanage near the Zambian border for a life of luxury in London with one of the world's most famous couples and their two children.
The boy's mother died after she gave birth to him, according to media reports.
The 13-month-old baby, wearing a blue and orange baseball cap, was carried off the flight by a female assistant who quickly covered his head with a coat to shield him from cameras.
Three armed police officers and airport officials escorted the party through Heathrow's terminal one and out of a back door to a silver Mercedes, which drove them away.
A Reuters photographer later saw the silver car, which had blacked-out windows, arriving at Madonna's central London home, where it sped into a rear garage.
Madonna and her husband arrived in Malawi on Oct. 4 on what was described as a humanitarian trip, and left last Friday.
She spent most of the trip visiting orphanages to highlight the plight of some 900,000 orphans in the country.
The singer has promised to donate about $3 million to the campaign to help these children via the charity, Raising Malawi.
David Holmes.
chief executive of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, said it would have been better for Banda to be adopted in Malawi.
"In a perfect world, inter-country adoption would not exist," he told Britain's GMTV. "We would be able to invest in every country so that they could develop systems and services for children and families to stay in their countries.
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There was speculation in Britain about whether Madonna had completed all the steps required to adopt a child from overseas.
"Madonna will have had to follow rigorous assessment just like other parents hoping to adopt," Holmes said. "She would have to go through exactly the same process as domestic adoption .
..there would be a very thorough assessment by social workers.
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In addition to two homes in Britain, the singer also has a home in Beverly Hills in the United States. British media reported that the baby had been granted a U.S.
visa, prompting suggestions that the pop star may seek to adopt him in America.
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