section_path: Claimed adoption into Oromo community
section_name: Claimed adoption into Oromo community
paragraph_text: Claimed adoption into Oromo community
  
  On 23 January 2020, the day after the police executed the first search warrant, an October 2019 Shabo Media video surfaced in which Gibson was wearing a headscarf and speaking partially in the Oromo language (referring to herself as "Sabontu"), discussing the political situation in Ethiopia with an interviewer and referring to Ethiopia as "back home". She professed to have been adopted by the Ethiopian community in Melbourne after volunteering for four years, calling the adoption a gift from "Allah".
  
  However, on the same day, the president of the Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria, Tarekegn Chimdi, stated that Gibson was not a registered volunteer, "is not a community member and she's also not working with the community" and that he had seen her at events only two or three times. He said that nobody seemed to know who she was, and he had only just learned of her backstory and wished her to stop saying she was part of the community.
  
  On 23 January 2020, the day after the police executed the first search warrant, an October 2019 Shabo Media video surfaced in which Gibson was wearing a headscarf and speaking partially in the Oromo language (referring to herself as "Sabontu"), discussing the political situation in Ethiopia with an interviewer and referring to Ethiopia as "back home". She professed to have been adopted by the Ethiopian community in Melbourne after volunteering for four years, calling the adoption a gift from "Allah".
  
  However, on the same day, the president of the Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria, Tarekegn Chimdi, stated that Gibson was not a registered volunteer, "is not a community member and she's also not working with the community" and that he had seen her at events only two or three times. He said that nobody seemed to know who she was, and he had only just learned of her backstory and wished her to stop saying she was part of the community.