Four years ago, David Goldman waved goodbye to his wife and mother-in-law and his four year old son, Sean, at a new Jersey airport to wish them well on what was supposed to be a two week family vacation to his wife's native country, Brazil. What he didn't know, was that she had no intention of coming back. Once she got to Brazil, David recieved a call from Bruna, his wife, telling him that she wasn't going to return to the US and that if he ever wanted to see his son Sean again, he would have to give her sole custody. While in Brazil, Bruna married a prominent lawyer from a well-off brazilian family.
David brought his case to the court and it has been in limbo between US custody laws, Brazil custody laws and international laws between the two countries. According to the Hague treaties, which both countries have signed, Sean should have been returned to the US, however, the brazilian courts waited too long to act on anything and decided, as it had been a year, that Sean had been in Brazil too long to take him away from his mother.
Four years later, Bruna died giving birth to her new husband's baby and David thought that after all of the fighting in the courts, that Sean was finally his. Suddenly, Sean's last name was changed, and Goldman was erased from the records. Goldman is now trying to find a way for his Sean's last name to become Goldman again and for his chance to take his son back, but will the Brazilian courts follow their own custody laws that would return Sean to the United States, or will the influential brazilian family prevail? To read more click here
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visit www.bringseanhome.org to follow up on this story and learn how the press in Brazil are being kept from publishing it.
I think it's wonderful that Brazil is getting their well-deserved black eye for non-compliance with the Hague Convention and common human dignity. What I can't understand is how Mexico has managed to remain out of the this discussion. Mexico has ten times the number of Hague cases and abducted children. Mexico has more cases and children than all other non-compliant countries combined.
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