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The orphanage apparently misled Angelina by telling her they had no idea who or where the relatives of the little boy, now named Pax Thien Jolie. In fact, they visited the child's grandparents in their home to tell them that he was going to be adopted by a rich American lady.
Now the grandparents and the orphanage are worried that the real mother of Pax, a heroin addict who dissappears for months at a time, will try to extort money from Jolie, and possibly even demand that she give the boy back.
Since the original adoption papers were signed by the grandparents and not the mother, the papers may not be legal.
Pax's grandparents told how the little boy came into the world:
Speaking at their rundown home in a poor suburb of Ho Chi Minh City, Chien, a former oil tanker skipper, told how his daughter became pregnant after an affair with a married man at the garment factory where she worked.
Emaciated and desperate for a fix, Dung gave birth to a seriously underweight son on November 29, 2003. Doctors feared the child would be born a heroin addict.
Two days afterwards, as he fought for life in a special care baby unit, she sneaked out of the hospital leaving her child behind because she couldn't afford the £15 medical bill — the equivalent of a month's wages.
She disappeared. A month later her traditionalist parents, penniless and consumed by shame at her having a child out of wedlock, gave him to the city's Tam Binh orphanage. None of his family has seen him since.
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