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AP Photo of David Goldman in Brazilian Federal Court
It's not a full victory, but in what seems like a Father's Day miracle, the Associated Press reported on Thursday that the Brazilian Federal Court has decided that David Goldman can have custody of 9-year old Sean six days per week...as long as he stays in Brazil. This would be a temporary arrangement until a final decision is made.
This announcement comes just days after the fifth anniversary of Sean's kidnapping by his mother and one day after his stepfather's attorney released the transcript of an interview with a psychologist where Sean stated that he wanted to stay in Brazil.
The psychologist's interview was conducted in Portuguese but a translation of the transcript is available at the Bring Sean Home website. If this translation is accurate, it seems clear that the psychologist was leading Sean to say what his Brazilian family wanted and that he was very uncomfortable about the fact that his stepfamily was watching and listening in another room.
One thing that lends credence to David Goldman's claims of parental alienation is that Sean told the psychologist that his father has never come to see him and has promised to visit and then not shown up. In fact, Goldman has been to Brazil more than 11 times in the last five years but was not permitted to see Sean until February of this year. Also, much has been made of the fact that when asked to draw his family, Sean drew only his stepfather, half-sister, and Brazilian grandparents. In fact, according to the transcript, he asked for another piece of paper to continue his drawing but the psychologist told him he was done.
The AP reports that Sean's Brazilian stepfather plans to appeal the latest ruling and David Goldman says that he won't go back to Brazil until he's sure that this arrangement won't be scuttled.
Comments
Adults should realise before they have children with someone from a foreign country that they may lose some or all contact with their child/children should the relationship founder.
The child is not a trophy to be fought over but a person with feelings which need to be taken into account. He has lost his mother and, difficult though this may be for the biological father, may be happier staying in Brazil with his family there, whilst maintaining regular contact with is father in the US. The child's welfare should come first!
If an American woman living in Brazil wished to return to the US when her relationship with her Brazilian husband broke up, should he have the right to insist the children be returned to Brazil if the mother died ?
HShaw is either uneducated or an idiot. Goldman is the boy's biological father! Regardless of the mothers nationality and divorce from Goldman, the fact remains that Goldman is the father. I can't fathom how the Brazilian legal system has twisted one of the most fundamental and universal rights of anyone on the planet. Children and biological parents have the inherent right to be together...it's called a family! HShaw's ending example of "American woman living in Brazil wished to return to the US when her relationship with her Brazilian husband broke up, should he have the right to insist the children be returned to Brazil if the mother died" Yes, he should! In this example he is the biological father and barring circumstances that clearly would endanger the children they should be returned to the biological family whether in Brazil, Russia, or the North Pole. Governments do not have the right to separate children from their families without just cause.
Governments do not have the right to separate children from their families without just cause. But that's just what governments do and it's usually right here in the USA and it's usually ex abusive husbands/boyfriends that get custody from GOOD mothers. Taking a child away from the ONLY family he has known to place in with someone with the only thing in common is DNA is sad. That child doesn't need to be "poisioned" by the pseudo junk science of PAS. He will grow up to resent his father for taking him away from his REAL family.
Enough is enough!! Dont forget to go to www. BringSeanhome.org. Making David Goldman stay in Brazil so he can see his son six days a wek is just condoning and facilitating more parental alienation! Shame on you judge! What a coward you are.
The mother took the boy with her on a vacation, hey did not returned and that's when she told David she was gonna divorce him. So she did, got remarried and died in labor. I see a little bit of KARMA here. Now David has been fighting for 5 years and the Brazilian (stepfather, and gov) keep screwing David Up. Now Sean, David's son, think that the father hasn't been around and it is because of the stepfather and the Brazilian gov. Now if the U.S gov wants to help David, don't put trade sactions on Brazil. Instead, freeze all Brazilian assets here in the U.S and you'll see how that boy will be here the next day.
This kind of thing happens all the time. What is so special about this family? I mean this dad has been interviewed by everyone. I wonder if the dad was LaShawn in Compton would we ever know this kids name? I'm just asking...
Chad ever heard of stockholm syndrome? thats what the boy is going through. his REAL family is his father and guess what if they had any info why he was unfit it would of been all over the media. chad use logic a mother dies who does the kid belong to ofc the father so long as he is a fit father which in this case he is.
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