The father of the motherless Malawian boy whom Madonna seeks to adopt wants news of his son, Reuters reported, citing a newspaper report. Madonna has custody of the boy. “I don’t have her phone and mailing address,” the father, Yohane Banda, told The Daily Times, based in Blantyre, Malawi. “All I want is to find out how my son is, but I don’t know how I can do it. I only talked to her once at the High Court, and I want to talk to her now and find out about my child.” Mr. Banda, the father of David Banda, 1, spoke to the newspaper after it presented him with $788 from a Scottish nun, Christine Webster, who told the paper she believed that the child would have been better off in Malawi. Mr. Banda dismissed suggestions that he was seeking the boy’s return and asked human rights organizations that opposed the adoption to refrain from interfering with his attempts to talk with Madonna. “All I want is to find out how my child is doing and not to have him back,” he was quoted as saying. The adoption last year by Madonna, under an interim order, prompted questions about the use of celebrity to circumvent laws governing adoption of Malawians by foreigners.

Source: Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times