Posted on 03/27/2007 8:36:54 AM PDT by angkor
THE mother of the latest child adopted by Angelina Jolie is a money-hungry heroin addict who NEVER signed the papers to give up her son.
Now the thieving, drug-addled woman — who abandoned her baby two days after giving birth — is likely to hound the Hollywood star and lover Brad Pitt for cash.
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And unmarried Vietnamese pauper Pham Thu Dung, 29, may even demand they give the boy BACK.
Angelina, 31 — who has two other adopted chidren and one of her own — picked up the three-year-old boy from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh city 10 days ago and called him Pax Thien, which means Peaceful Verse.
But the adoption papers were signed by his grandparents and may not be legal if the mother contests them.
The child's grandad Chien, 55, revealed: "Our daughter is a heroin addict and she is a bag of trouble. Her life has been ruled by drugs since she was 16.
Affair
"When she finds out that a rich movie star has adopted her baby, she WILL go after Angelina Jolie for money and make trouble for her. She may even try to take the child back."
And granny Nhan, 51, added: "We are delighted he has gone to such a wonderful home. But my daughter is very smart — and she is also very stubborn, wayward and difficult."
Speaking at their rundown home in a poor suburb of Ho Chi Minh City, Chien, a former oil tanker skipper, told how his daughter became pregnant after an affair with a married man at the garment factory where she worked.
Emaciated and desperate for a fix, Dung gave birth to a seriously underweight son on November 29, 2003. Doctors feared the child would be born a heroin addict.
Two days afterwards, as he fought for life in a special care baby unit, she sneaked out of the hospital leaving her child behind because she couldn't afford the £15 medical bill — the equivalent of a month's wages.
She disappeared. A month later her traditionalist parents, penniless and consumed by shame at her having a child out of wedlock, gave him to the city's Tam Binh orphanage. None of his family has seen him since.
The boy was given the name Quang Sang, meaning Bright Light, and was there for three years before Angelina spotted him on a visit last November.
Grandad Chien said: "We don't even know who the baby's father is, only that he's a married man. If she brought home an illegitimate son, I would have committed suicide. It would have destroyed the reputation of our family.
"Our two youngest daughters still don't know that their sister has had a baby and that they are aunties."
Hooked
The grandfather revealed the boy's mother Dung was actually at their house when ophananage officials arrived unexpectedly earlier this year.
He said: "She disappears for months on end. Then just when you think you will never see her again, she's back. But we only ever see her when she wants money.
"In January Dung was at our house when the deputy director of the orphanage where we had sent her baby paid a surprise visit to tell us a wealthy American wanted to adopt him.
"Although our daughter was in the room, she did not reveal that she was the boy's mother. Nor did we.
"She just sat in the corner, pretending to knit. She did not say a word and showed absolutely no emotion. She listened hard when the director told us her boy was going to have a good life, and that he was lucky he was going to live with this rich American woman.
"Then she disappeared. She was still hooked on drugs and we told her we had had enough. We have not seen her since that day.
"In February, we were asked to sign more papers agreeing to the adoption and stating that we did not know the whereabouts of our daughter, which we did.
"We did not know then that Angelina Jolie was the rich American who wanted to adopt our grandson."
Official documents signed by the grandparents and seen by the News of the World confirm that their grandson is the child named Pham Quang Sang and adopted by Angelina.
But the boy's auntie Trang, 33, told us: "After the orphanage man visited, Dung wanted to go to there to look for her son but she didn't know what he looked like. I persuaded her not to go.
"My sister thinks about her baby a lot. She dotes on my younger daughter and both my girls call her Mother. If she could, she would try to get her son back."
And she insisted that Dung was devastated to be parted from her baby.
Trang said: "She didn't know she was pregnant until quite late on, otherwise she would have had an abortion.
"She took heroin all through the pregnancy and when the baby was born he was very underweight, just over four pounds.
"I went to the hospital. He was already hooked up to a ventilator.
"He looked like a wet cat. He was so tiny, I didn't think he would survive but my sister never had any doubts that he would.
"I was also terrified that he would be born with HIV. Happily, he wasn't, because my sister says she doesn't inject heroin, only snorts it.
"I wanted to take him home with me but my father refused to allow it and told us we had to give the baby up.
"Dung's drug habit has cost my family a great deal—money we can't afford. She had already left home under a cloud 10 times before she fell pregnant.
"Then at the hospital they wanted us to pay £15 up front. None of us had any money — £15 is a whole month's wages for me. In the end, I brought a coat and some clothes for my sister and she sneaked out."
Trang added: "I felt terrible about that and so did Dung. We kept thinking about the sick little baby we left behind. We are all still hurting about what happened and we do feel guilty about how we abandoned him.
"Dung may not be a good or respectable person but, still, she is his mother. We have no right to expect anything. But we want him to know where he comes from when he grows up."
Pax Thien is Tomb Raider star Angelina's fourth child. She adopted her eldest son Maddox, five, from Cambodia and her daughter Zahara, two, from Ethiopia. She also gave birth to her own daughter, Shiloh, with film hunk Brad Pitt, 43, last year.
Angelina instantly fell in love with the lad when she visited the orphanage with Brad last November. The shy little lad was the only child not to rush forwards and vie for her attention.
But his was one of only a handful of photographs she asked to take back to Hollywood. A source told us: "The directors of the orphanage were keen for her to adopt another boy.
"But she kept coming back to that photo. She couldn't stop looking at it. Her heart was set on him."
Orphanage director Nyugen Van Trung told how Angelina came to collect Pax Thien this month with her eldest son Maddox.
He revealed: "She greeted him with a kiss and a hug, but the child seemed shy. He cried because, for him, they are strangers. Jolie was very moved."
The child's grandparents have warned Angelina about their money-grabbing junkie daughter.
The family was once wealthy. But, a combination of poor investments and Dung's heroin habit, plunged them into a life of abject poverty.
She stole and sold five motorbikes to get money for drugs. She also thieved lottery money she collected for neighbours and friends.
Her father Chien said: "We have already lost too much money because of her drug habit. She always wants money but it is us who have to pay it back. She doesn't care that we live on a £15-a-month pension, can only afford to eat once a day and have five children to support as well as my wife's mother who is 101.
And his wife Nhan sobbed: "I never visited my grandson. I was scared I would fall in love with him and want to bring him home. I knew we could not afford and my daughter could never support him.
"But we hope he has a very happy life and that one day he'll come to visit us.
"I just I pray my daughter forgets all about him."
Since Fox News and others are thrashing this story, I thought I'd post it. Apparently News Of The World broke it, and this is the original.
The U.S. and Vietnam signed a new adoption agreement after nearly three years of an adoption ban last fall (VN also signed new agreements with many Euro countries). It cleaned up many of the earlier problems and is stricter on both sides. See here:
http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/country/country_349.html
In this case the mother clearly abandoned the child under Vietnam law, the grandparents became guardians and (probably pleading poverty and age) signed an adoption waiver with the orphange. Vietnam requires extensive interviews with any existing family before posting a child for adoption, including 30 days continuous notice in local newspapers. Finally, the U.S. State Dept. and D0J must approve the papers.
The mother is clearly trying to extort money. She's one one of those ugly types who would have sold her baby for cash under VN's adoption problems in the late-90's.
WTF, aren't their enough orphans without parents to adopt? Why do the hollyweirdo's seek to adopt those with parents(admittedly bad ones)?
That's a really good tip actually... Send it in to Yankee magazine - or Prevention.
This is why one must be careful about adoption. Indian people are of the mindset that only Indian families should adopt Indian children. My feelings are I don't care what the race is as long as the child goes to a good family. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. If my wife and I were to adopt this child, we would not hear squat from that trash. Jolie and Pitt have money. My wife and I do not
I don't understand why it is so out of fashion for these stars to adopt American children. We have plenty needing homes.
Pax Thien is Tomb Raider star Angelina's fourth child.
Nonsense.....he is only the latest of her glittery collection of do-gooder trinkets.
But whatever the ultimate outcome for this kid, I truly hope he has a good life, as his life was likely destined to be sad.
A blue-eyed white baby doesn't make near the social statement that a baby from the Third-World does. Especially if it's a little on the scrawny side.
Try it sometime. It's a nightmare
Doesn't she know that whenever you purchase something you ALWAYS ask for a Reciept.
The mother is rotten but Jolie may have no good choices. She should consider actually giving the child back, only with a monthly allowance at some grocery store -- sort of like food stamps -- so that the child is always provided for. And she could send clothing and pay for schooling and healthcare. That sort of thing. But not one dime should be spent on that mother. Not one red cent. If the mother is not interested in the child, she will give him back. At least the child will have physical needs met.
Hmmm. The Heroin Whore vs. The Publicity Whore. Sounds like the WWE of tabloid culture.
According to South Park, Ms. Jolie has bigger problems than her heroin-addicted kid, if you know what I mean.
I understand and agree with your point, but would offer the following.
The conditions for children up for adoption in America are far superior to the conditions faced by children up for adoption in third world countries.
I'm not suggesting that American kids up for adoption have it good, or are living high on the hog, but there is no comparison between the conditions in the U.S. and in the majority of the rest of the world.
Even kids in the former Soviet states have it immensely worse than orphans here in America.
For "normal" couples international adoption is also a sea of red tape and waiting time, not to mention $$. Celebs make it look so easy, both domestic and international adoption.
I think Angie should give this mother money....lots of it...enough to buy lots and lots of heroin.
All you need is $$$$$
Drive down to the local orphanage and give us a live report.
"I don't understand why it is so out of fashion for these stars to adopt American children. We have plenty needing homes."
Not really.
It's next to impossible to adopt a non-special-needs kid domestically.
Moreover:
First, costs about $50K. It's a big racket.
Second, you wait 2+ years.
Third, and most importantly, "open adoption" is the rage here in the USA. That is, birth momma and birth daddy (if around) know the adoptive parents' names and have visits with "their" child you effectively babysit. They show up, ask for money, demand money, and, as the adopted child gets older, start asking him or her for money, shelter --- etc. Heck, after you've raised them, they all but try to take the child you raised from you.
Fourth, adoptions in the USA unravel legally with a distirbing reglarity. Take care of a child for 7 years, then daddy gets out of prison --- claims he never knew about the child --- and demands "his" kid back. Foreign adoptions are generally much more final in this regard, if by nothing else, the distances involved.
Come with me to Poltava, Ukraine and we'll have the picture rounded out.
Deal?
Honest question - do you have first or even second hand experience with orphanages in third world countries?
I have seen the horrors of US orphanages, and while horrible, pale when compared to what children in many other countries face.
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