Marine Allowed to Keep Afghan Orphan Despite Disputed Adoption
Virginia Supreme Court ends years of litigation allowing Maj. Joshua Mast to keep an Afghan war orphan despite Afghan government and U.S. warnings about international law risks.
- On Thursday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a U.S. Marine and his wife may keep an Afghan orphan, citing a law that bars adoption challenges after six months.
- In September 2019, U.S. soldiers found the infant injured during a raid, her family killed, and brought her to Bagram Air Base hospital while the U.S. State Department under President Donald Trump insisted on reunification with Afghan relatives vetted by the Afghan government.
- Moore granted a weekend temporary adoption on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, and later a final adoption in December 2020, waiving safeguards during the process.
- The ruling likely ends a bitter, yearslong legal battle, while government filings warned keeping the child risks endorsing 'international child abduction' and threatening international security pacts, the Justice Department said.
- Three dissenting justices called the court's handling wrong and cancerous, and court transcripts reveal a fractured bureaucracy where high-ranking military and government officials took extraordinary, conflicting steps.
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An American Soldier Has Received the Right to Adopt an Afghan War Opportunist After a Long Civil War
The Supreme Court of the state of Virginia allowed them to join an American Navy officer and his wife to keep an Afghan orphanage that they brought with them to the U.S., ending in the beginning of a trial sentence, AFP reported.
After several years of judicial battle, the Virginia Supreme Court validated the adoption of an Afghan girl brought back to the United States by a soldier and her wife.
Virginia Supreme Court rules U.S. Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan will stand
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family.
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Marine Corps TimesVirginia Supreme Court rules US Marine’s adoption of Afghan war orphan will stand
A U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family.
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