Astonishing News from Birthmother of Zahara Jolie-Pitt

The latest in celebrity news is for once not about Lindsay, Britney or Paris. Although it's nice for a break, this break is one that should not have happened in the first place. Latest reports come from the birthmother of a famous celebrity baby, and are upsetting to all who read them.

Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt was born on January 8, 2005 in Ethiopia. Given up for adoption as a newborn, she was taken into the home of Angelina Jolie and her son Maddox in July of 2005 and was later also adopted by Brad Pitt. Since her adoption she has gained a sister, Shiloh and a new brother, Pax. As the smily, comical, adorable brown-haired daughter of famous parents, she has become a household name throughout the world.

Mentwabe Dawit, the woman who gave birth to Zahara, recently had an interview where she exposed the past of the little girl, her biological child. She states that as she was walking home one night after her job as a construction worker, she was attacked at knife-point by a man who then proceeded to rape her. As a result of said rape, she conceived a child that she named Yemsrach, later renamed Zahara. Her immediate plan was not adoption, she had planned to care for the baby. But after realizing she could not provide for a child, she fled, leaving a starving newborn with her mother. Her mother, fearing for the child's life, made the brave decision to place the child for adoption to give her a fighting chance at life. Zahara was later adopted by Angelina Jolie and moved to the United States, where Brad Pitt also adopted her, becoming her legal father.

The story that little Zahara was conceived from rape is one that stings almost all who hear it. It tears at your heart and brings tears to your eyes to read the news story and then look over to see this beautiful child who was brought into this world in such an act of violence and to think of what her mother went through. Rape victims themselves take years to heal from what happened, and even then it never goes away. Yet when there is a child of rape that is affected, how do they heal?