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“Slumdog Millionaire star,” Rubina Ali, needs new parents.

The nine-year-old, who played the youngest version of Latika, the female lead in the Oscar winning film, is making news again and this time it’s not for an award winning movie .  Now, it is because of her no-good father, Rafiq Quereshi, who is apparently out to get as much as he can from his daughter’s success.   According to reports,  Quereshi has attempted to sell his daughter in an illegal adoption deal for close to $300,000.

His brother Mohiuddin reportedly said: “The child is special now. This is not an ordinary child. This is an Oscar child.”

This is the second time Quereshi has tried to get more money from his daughter’s role in the movie.  A few months ago he said his daughter was underpaid for appearing in “Millionaire” and asked the directors for more money.

How sad.  These children should be enjoying what is left of their childhoods and the fact that they were a part of a successful movie.   How many parents can say that about their kid?  Instead, they are  trying to make as much money as they can out of them.

I know these families live in the slums and do not have much of anything, but is this really the way to go about it?  The parents just seem like money-hungry opportunists.  It’s quite sad that these young children were given parents who view them as nothing but a meal ticket out of poverty.

Hopefully the next time we hear of these kids is when someone from another country wants to adopt them.  Goodness knows that wouldn’t be a bad thing at all.