Gov't denies Jolie Pitt adoption rumour

Gov't denies Jolie Pitt adoption rumour

ppp Wed, 13 January 2016

Harriet Fitch Little

Angelina Jolie Pitt shakes hands with Prime Minister Hun Sen in September of last year. The Ministry of Social Affairs today denied a rumour that the actress was in the process of adopting a second Cambodian child. AFP

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School of Vice: In the 1980s one American woman writer walked into a local orphanage and fell under the spell of a little Cambodian 'princess', and thus began her perilous mission to adopt the young girl. On one occasion during her visit to her adopted daughter's country she recounts how the young arrogant Hun Sen himself appeared unexpectedly next to her mumbling threateningly: "We want our girl back"! Leaving her note on a visitors' book she penned something to the effect of: "May the next Cambodian generation receive proper education and learning so that they will never be ruled by ignorant and inhumane brutes again".   

Decades have passed since yet hundreds of young vulnerable Cambodian women [mostly from impoverished countryside] continue to be lured into organised trade in human-trafficking patented as "brides" and "maids" or "migrant workers" throughout South East Asia where they are made to put themselves at grave risk of being subjected to extreme violence and ill treatment of various kinds and degrees, from rape and torture to forced slave labour without adequate means of sustenance. And it's largely all thanks to the "brute" still running and ruining the ...

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The Ministry of Social Affairs today denied there was any truth to the suggestion that Angelina Jolie Pitt was in the process of adopting a second child from Cambodia.

The rumour, which stemmed from a story published by US gossip website Radar on Monday, claimed Jolie Pitt had pledged to adopt a baby called “Shoun Allouy” – the youngest child of an impoverished family she met in Siem Reap.

“I saw [the news] on Facebook, but actually it’s just a rumour,” said Sao Samphois, a spokesperson for the ministry's Inter-Country Adoption Administration (ICAA).

Samphois clarified that the ICAA had had no contact with Jolie Pitt during her trip to Cambodia last month, and pointed out that even if Angelina and husband Brad Pitt were looking to adopt from Cambodia again, there was no legal mechanism in place for them to do so.

There has been no bilateral agreement on adoption between America and Cambodia since 2001, when America suspended adoptions over trafficking concerns.

“The adoption between the two countries is not yet open,” Samphois said.

She added that while Cambodia was currently working to reopen international adoptions, only Italy has signed on as a potential recipient country so far.

Jolie Pitt was in Cambodia in December filming an adaptation of Loung Ung’s Khmer Rouge memoir First They Killed My Father. Her 14-year-old son Maddox, who the actress adopted from Cambodia as a baby, has been involved in researching the film.

The story originally posted on Radar was picked up on by major news outlets on Tuesday, but with no confirmation aside from the unnamed insider originally quoted by Radar.