Officials Have Confirmed Madonna Is Adopting A 3-Year-Old Girl,Mercy, From Malawi

"The adoption is going ahead," Malawi's Director of Child Welfare Services, Penstone Kilemb. "It has been at an advanced stage for some time."

Mercy will be Madonna's fourth child, and second child from the African country. David Banda, 3, was adopted in 2006.

The girl is from the "Mchinji Home of Hope orphanage. She has no father and mother, they both died...We finished the assessment yesterday in readiness for the courts next week," an official at the ministry of Gender and Child Development told Reuters.

Madonna is due in court Monday. Her rep Liz Rosenberg has yet to comment.
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