I had my fingers crossed but with the history of the Brazilian courts I knew this probably happen. A Brazilian Supreme Court judge blocked the return to the United States of 9-year-old Sean Goldman, at the center of a long running international custody dispute on Thursday, saying the boy’s own will must be taken into account. The day before a panel of three Brazilian judges ruled that New Jersey dad David Goldman should get his son Sean back, and must be handed over to him at the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro within 48 hours. This has been a long running saga that has seen Goldman put through 5-years of hell trying to get Sean back. The decision by the federal appeals court in Rio de Janeiro upheld a Brazilian federal judge’s earlier ruling.
But once again another roadblock has been thrown out to stop this from happening as Brazil once again defies the Hague Abduction Convention aimed a curbing cases of child abduction by parents in this case. The ruling is total stupidity. After this miscarriage of justice for five years Sean hardly knows his father now and undoubtedly the abducting party’s family has not been kind to his memory. The boy needs to go back to his father David who understands that Sean will need counseling to deal with what has happened.
