Sean Goldman’s Brazilian Family Hopes to Regain Custody: Folha, Brazil
Jan 6th, 2010 | 42 responses
What country – and what family – does Sean Goldman, a nine-year-old boy at the center of an international custody dispute, prefer? After a bruising four-year custody battle over him and if his Brazilian relatives get their way, it may all come down to Sean’s answering that question in a Brazilian appeals court.
In 2004, his mother Bruna took Sean to Brazil and never returned. After marrying another man in Brazil, she died, resulting in the current custody battle. According to this news account from Brazil’s Folha newspaper, after losing custody of Sean on December 25, Sean’s Brazilian relatives have one more legal avenue open to them to regain custody of the boy from his American father, David Goldman.
Illustrating the depth of emotion surrounding the case, Folha reporter Diana Brito quotes Sean’s maternal grandmother as saying:
I only regret the response of the Brazilian courts. I’m very upset, very sad and concerned about Sean’s little head. He left a small sister here. Every time she passes his bedroom door, she asks: “Where’s brother, where’s brother?” I always respond by saying that he’s traveling. They separated two siblings. That’s cruel.
So what can the family do to return Sean to Brazil?:
Sean’s Brazilian family said they would continue the court battle to regain custody of the boy. The family says it’s considering entering an appeal with the Superior Court [the highest appeals court in Brazil] for the boy to be heard. His Brazilian relatives hope that Sean will state that he would rather live in Brazil, and based on this, they hope to regain custody.
By Diana Brito
Translated By Brandi Miller
December 31, 2009
Brazil – Folha – Original Article (Portuguese)
Rio de Janeiro: Silvana Bianchi, grandmother of nine-year-old Sean Goldman, said on Dec. 30 that she would not make any quick judgments about the request for compensation by American David Goldman, the child’s father, for $500,000 (about 870,000 reals). The foreigner’s lawyer said yesterday that the costs being sought from the boy’s Brazilian family would cover David’s expenses since the beginning of the legal battle for custody of his son.
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42 Responses to “Sean Goldman’s Brazilian Family Hopes to Regain Custody: Folha, Brazil”
Fortunately, after the farce that was the Brazilian justice system with respect to this case for so long, the Goldman's now come under the jurisdiction of the U.S. justice system. A system that hopefullly will consider the merits of the case instead of the financial and political power and influence of the litigants, and a system that hopefully will honor the The Hague Convention—something the Brazilian justice system ignored for so long..
So she says it's separating siblings yet she has no qualms about separating father and son. You can't have it both ways, they cut first blood so they have to live with their initial wrong. If they had worked out a shared custody where the boy would benefit from both parents they would not have been in this situation. BTW, the fight over the abduction, not custody, has been 5+ years.
thank you DE re honor of a justice system being required rather than system going to the most $influential.
and thank you jeannie, that says it all. No qualms about separating father and son in the first place.
This case ought never go to a courtroom again. There are international mediators that would work out a fair and generous visitation with grandmother and halfsister.
But… I only know if I had my child back again in the US after so so much heartbreak and travail and doublecrossing, I would never allow visitation in another country, any country, ever again, until child was age of majority and on their own.
thank you DE re honor of a justice system being required rather than system going to the most $influential.
and thank you jeannie, that says it all. No qualms about separating father and son in the first place.
This case ought never go to a courtroom again. There are international mediators that would work out a fair and generous visitation with grandmother and halfsister.
But… I only know if I had my child back again in the US after so so much heartbreak and travail and doublecrossing, I would never allow visitation in another country, any country, ever again, until child was age of majority and on their own. Never allow granny /stepfather to visit unless court order and supervision in place.
also, to see an actual picture of the child's 'grandma' who is actually a media whiz chef in Brazil, see the glam pic here: the one above is absurd; she seems a woman who acts before the camera, including not wearing makeup to appear a certain way. People who model for publicity shots know that wearing tan and white will wash you out and add about twenty years of age. She is way far from being 'grammy.' Far, far.
http://revistamarieclaire.globo.com/Marieclaire…
Parents have the right to raise their children how they see fit, as long as there is mo abuse involved. I'm not sure why minor, who was kidnapped and is now reunited with his father gets to say where he will live. I thought it was parents who made such decisions.
grandma thinks it is cruel that the courts separated siblings. there is a solution: send the
other child to new jersey to live with the goldman's. then the siblings can be together!
no way would she do that. why could she not see 5 years ago the cruelty that was inflicted
on a father and also on a little boy? i feel really sad over those lost years for sean and david.
Mr Goldman, the dad, has said that he'll never understand the Brazilian family. I couldn't agree with him more. Why did they have to battle like that? What do they call rational? To them, only the shame and sense of defeat, now. That's what they deserve. They had no right to do what they did. Mr Goldman is a hero, period. He's shown to the world that he fought the good fight. The most beautiful view I had of this was when they were boarding the plane. You know, the father didn't even need to walk his son onto the plane: Sean did it by himself. Unforgettable! I'm very glad things turned out this way. Hail the Goldmans!
I cannot fathom the cruelty of suggesting that Sean Goldman should be asked to tell a judge in court whether he prefers to live with his father or return to Brazil. StockBoy is right that this is a violation of parental rights, but it's also a terrible thing to do to a child who has been through, already, such a horrendous legal tug of war, and now his grandmother thinks he should have to *choose* between her family and Sean's father? Any answer he would give would be utterly meaningless. I'm sure he loves his grandmother and Brazilian sister, too — whether it's “as much as” he loves his father is impossible to quantify. How can an adult who claims to love this child want to put him in a position of being in court and asking him, Now where would you rather live, in Brazil with grandma or in the U.S. with daddy? It's like tearing him apart psychically.
The more I read about this woman, the more I shake my head. I don't want to say that she doesn't love Sean, because that is probably a judgment I am not in a position to make — but the way she expresses love seems to be very twisted.
Mr Goldmann is such a good man I do wonder why his wife left him???? And why he never in 5 years went to Brazil to visit his son because as far as I know he was married and knew where his wife family lived???? bizarre and even more bizarre is taking money at the start of the court battle from the family his was fighting to get his son back…And making a huge tv drama and profiting by it…I guess for americans as long as u cash in its ok…And you know,I saw so many racists comments about the brazilian mother that me on her place would have done the same,would fly back to her country to be home because on the USA if you are not american u dont have any right.Im sad for Sean and trully hope that his father gives a damm about him and is not doing that just to cash in because for sure he did a career out of it,for somebody that lived on his wife teaching italian…And people,the boy was very close to his brazilian relatives,one thing for sure he didnt lack was love…well his dad,he doesnt know him,so to build a love bond with David will take time and if it happens…Didnt you guys notice that David never looks into people eyes? Watch on the interviews he made and I really dont trust people that dont look into the eyes…
So exactly what has David cashed in on? His wife's bank account of 3000+ and the 150,000? Well, he still has 400,000 left to pay up doesn't he? And no, the TV stations have not paid him any money directly only favours: plane tickets and that final flight home – which I deem to be the best deed anyone could do for the father and son. I can't imagine flying commercial after that ordeal that morning. If I am not mistaken, the next flight out would have been in the evening, the one his friends and Rep Chris Smith took.
If you seem to understand the “other side”, please explain this – what did they tell a 4-yr old boy who's been primarily under the father's care, where his Da Da was when he used to cry for him? Just because David Goldman didn't have a 9-5 job he's considered leeching off his “rich” wife? In her own admission she was not happy that he worked long hours on weekend on fishing boats. She also didn't like that David was caring about their son more than he cared about her. So what does she do to avenge him, she took his son away. So those stamps on his passport are all fake that he was in Brazil 8 times while she was still alive? See…American's are not stupid. And no, David does not look into eyes of TV because he's not a trained actor like the Brazilian family who boasts about their soap opera stars, or their famous speeches they give often.
Jeannie…well said
Rosechurch……Your kidding, right?
Since you seem tohave so many facts about the situation I'm wondering if you are related to the family. Or are you just repeating what you have read? Don't be so gullible as to believe everything you read. Of course the Brazilian family's attorney was saying anything and everything to disparage the father. In any case, this is a cultural difference as well as the granmother having had Sean for so long. Of course she loves him and that is blinding her to keeping him from a relationship with this father. Your last sentence says it all. In the U.S. we make decisions based on the law; in Brazil, apparently, they are made on your assessment of someone's character, right or wrong. Emotion rules the day.
Suezeekay, there is lots of proof that David went to Brazil since his wife kidnapped their little son. He fought with his wife from the beginning in US and Brazil court. That cost him 500,000 dollar from 2004 to until now. If it wasn't for TV nobody would have known about the case.He tried to visit his son many times in Brazil and the wife relatives totally shut him down. If you have heard his wife phone conversation, she had said many times he is a good father and she tricked him because she thought he won't give her separation. What a cunning woman. Why should she trick him like that, if she has gone the right way of legal seperation nothing would like this would have happened.
The nonsense spread by the grandmother and stepfather has been soundly refuted by facts. The grandmother and family were liable under Brazilian law. The 150,000 payment was made because of illegal actions the grandmother and her daughter took. Had they not paid that, they knew the courts would have given them worse sanctions and criminal charges. The idea that David Goldman never tried to see Sean in 5 years is so ridiculous, but the few supporters of the grandmother and stepfather never seem to tire of it. Read David's website. He meticulously documented his fight to see his son. His arrivals in Brazil. His being told that the family would love to comply with a court order for visitation but didn't know where his son was that day…… This family (grandmother, her deceased daughter and stepfather) were and are straight up evil. That is the only word that adequately describes what they put Sean and David Goldman through. There is a separate hell already mapped out for them, waiting for them to finally understand the damage they've wrought to these other people.
The boy and father have a bond – their blood and family in the States. Only a cruel and selfish family would separate them. The deceased wife is in hell and that's where the Brazilian family should be. HOW DARE THEM. If the boy went back to Brazil and had a fight with the “step father” the first words coming out of his mouth wouold be “You're not my Father, I don't have to listen to you”.
This brazilian grandma , is evidently crazy, just because her daughter has a son, does not make the
son, Sean her child, Sean's mother is dead, and she is a Kidnapper, OR WAS, the Only Legal Right
ful owner of this Child, Sean is he direct blood relative, his Father, namely David Goldman, Who does
she think she is??? She has more rights than the natural Father?? I think not, That is the whole thing
in a Nutshell, The Son is right now Where he Belongs, In the USA, N. J. with his Dad, who loves him
more than anything in the World, He Sean, is Part of his Father, David Goldman, Blood and the closest than anyone or anyother person. They the Step-Dad and Grandmother treated Sean like somekind of animal by parading him in front of all those cameras, That is Trauma, Bad drama for the
Boy, the Boy has been through enough, losing his Mother and now She, the Grandmother wants Sean
to lose his Father also??? Where is her Heart?? Her brain must be in her ass., As for as the comments on here with referance to David Goldman ascertaining funds over the Legal Battle from the
Grandma and step-dad, David Goldman has every right to get all the money and funds he possibly can, you guys are forgetting that David spent thousands in travel expense ,14-15 times, flying to Brazil
to be told he cannot have his Son back, you guys need to think twice about your detogratory comments about David Goldman, He is a prime example of a Good Dad and Father, so Leave Well
Alone about David Goldman, where he gets his money back from all his expenses
Rosechurch – You need to learn the most basic elements of this battle. Mr. Goldman went to Brazil 12 times. This is documented in every conceivable manner, including standing before judges in Brazil on multiple occasions. And Judge Pinto himself wrote in his court order that Mr. Goldman had even been denied the ability to visit his son (The court ordered that he could visit pending further hearings, but when Sean's father arrived at the locked gate of their home, the child had been removed from the premises with no notification even to the courts). This is only part of the VERY BASIC story. The other is that Brazil willfully agreed to become a signatory to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, which, as numerous judges and other lawmakers in Brazil and the U.S. stated, required that Mr. Goldman's son be with him, not with his abductors. Really, this is so basic to the case. And this child lacks no love from his birth father, with whom he was so close until they were both denied any news of each other whatsoever. Mr. Goldman called, and sent cards and gifts only to have them returend. What a horrible thing to teach a child, that a parent does not love him. Thank God the child is no longer denied contact with his father and he can now learn what love REALLY looks like. I wish there were more fathers like Mr. Goldman, all over the world. The world would be a better place.
I am sick and tired of reading the kind of crap the Brazilian family still dishing out. They are such hypocrites and totally out of line. Here they are going on and on about the wrong the Brazilian court did to them but how about what they did to David Goldman. The Brazilian court and the crazy family kept Sean away from his father.
If the Brazilian court abides by this crazy family 's request, I hope that the United States place sanction after sanction on that country.
By the way, there are hundreds of american children all over the world, including Brazil that have been taken from the United States by the foreign parent.
She left him because she was greedy she loved money more then she loved her husband!
In America we work hard she .She wanted maids personal drivers, since he could not provide she
Run to her MOM AND DAD like a materialistic person that she was, and stole her son from his father
Just because he didn't have enough money, she know he did not have alot money and she married Him anyway but KARMA is a bitch. God forgive me for saying that but is true, what goes Around Comes Around, And David with less money won, in that case justice prevail.
Please note that I'm Brazilian. I even posted a homage to Mr. Goldman on my blog called “EXTRA: David Goldman, Hero and Father of the Year”, at: http://www.plafstudies.com/2009/12/david-goldma…
This story made me love some and hate some. I'm at the side of Justice. As Socrates says, we should never have more consideration for someone more than for the truth and justice. That's it all to me. I have side with Mr. Goldman and I'm totally against the Brazilian family. Shame on them, all of them!
I'm also Brazilian and this family fits the typical profile of the rich snobby families in Brazil who think they are above the law just because they have money. I'm from Rio, I know where they live. Their neighborhood is packed with people who think they are important. As a joke that goes around there, you can get really rich by “buying those people for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth”.
His stepfather is evil, his grandma is evil and his mother was evil. She paid the ultimate price for her actions. I have no pity for this family, I just hope Sean will be fine after all of this. Their actions were typical of the soap opera drama that feeds the BS into people's minds in Brazil.
In America, the law works. In Brazil, money makes the law work. So sad, that's why I don't live there anymore. I have Brazil in my heart, always will. My best friends and family are there but I have no right to be a normal citizen there. Everyone wants to be “smarter” than you.
Good job. I couldn't agree with you more. All the best.
It is simply beyond my scope of understanding, morality and accountability to understand how a woman could so selfishly rip her son from a father he obviously loves and adores. I cannot fathom further that her parents would be complicit in that abduction. This was not and never has been a custody case.. It is a PARENTAL KIDNAPPING because Bruna Bianchi Goldman knew that she was committing a crime. David taped their phone conversations. Under the Hague Convention David Goldman is entitled to any and all monetary compensation from the ABDUCTORS to REPATRIATE his child. These people had no problem separating David and Sean when he was FOUR years old and placing lies in his head but they want to holler how cruel it is to separate him from his baby sister? PULEAZE.
Every single one of them needs to be arrested and charged with felony child abduction, harboring a minor, cruelty to a minor, defamation and character assassination, contempt of court and abusing the legal system to illegally retain Sean Goldman in a foreign land. I hope David Goldman sticks it up their hind end side ways without any lubricant. Disgusting what they did in the name of “love”. The bible says this about love: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
This was not and never has been a custody case.. It is a PARENTAL KIDNAPPING because Bruna Bianchi Goldman knew that she and her parents were committing a crime. Under the Hague Convention David Goldman is entitled to recoup any and all monetary compensation from the ABDUCTORS to REPATRIATE his child. These people had no problem separating David and Sean when he was FOUR years old and placing lies in his head but they want to holler how cruel it is to separate him from his baby sister? PULEAZE.
Every single one of them needs to be arrested and charged with felony child abduction, harboring a minor, cruelty to a minor, defamation and character assassination, contempt of court and abusing the legal system to illegally retain Sean Goldman in a foreign land. I hope David Goldman sticks it up their hind end side ways without any lubricant. Disgusting what they did in the name of “love”. The bible says this about love: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
And I resent your slanderous remarks regarding Americans being ok with it as long as they profit from it. You are talking out of your ass end. There was no profit from this, nothing to be gained. After living here in the United States for four years Bruna Bianchi Goldman would have been afforded the same rights as an American born citizen if she had chosen to go to a court of law and obtain a LEGAL separation and custody order. She did not do it legally because she knew that David would fight her tooth and nail.
Your not AMERICAN why don't you just shut your pie hole about Americans?
Tell Sean’s Brazilian abductors what you think about their despicable actions: Email them at:
Joao Paulo Lins e Silva (stepfather)
jplins@linsesilva.com.br
Sergio Tostes (Brazilian attorney)
stostes@tostes.com.br
Rosechurch. Excuse my Portuguese, but in America we classify your comments simply as merda de touros.
I very much celebrate Sean and David Goldman's reunification. I am glad that David chose to stay focused after all these years. It is absolute craziness that Bruna's family is attempting to manipulate the minds of the people that an 8 year old should be able to choose, and that they should have him when the Bianchi family kept father and son apart for so many years without Sean's or David's choice. What a selfish, mean, grandiose, criminal type of people and I include Joao Paulo Lins e Silva. Do they have mafia ties? But I only was able to see a moment of Bruna's affidavit in New Jersey on a video, where she stated she had to leave home to teach Italian at the high school because the father didn't have regular work as a model, and that she had breastfed the child for 1 1/2 years. I would like to know more of her real feelings.
Absolutely thrilled that Sean and David Goldman are reunited.
Has ANYBODY been able to see the copy of the New Jersey Affidavit that Bruno Bianchi Goldman turned in? I could only see a moment of it with some words boldened out of it, but could see that she said something about breastfeeding the baby and about wanting to stay home with her baby but had to teach Italian at the high school. I would like a little more insight to who she was. I do see that all her American girlfriends were totally shocked at her sudden split when she appeared so open and happy…so she was either a good actress, or just wowed by the opportunity to go home and live opulently and perhaps seek her own dreams as an actress…or perhaps she wanted a husband to support her financially, rather than leave the baby while she worked. Somehow she was able to depersonalize and blot David out of her mind as a person…adultery will do that, but so will feeling unwanted and unloved and marginalized in a relationship…feeling like a means to an end. Or, it could just be that she felt entitled to the life of wealth she knew in her childhood.
I believe that what has transpired is wrong all the way around, and the one paying the ultimate price is Sean. I am so sick of seeing David Goldman on tv, next there will be a book and a movie- he is just lining his pockets while his child has been traumatized. If you look at his facial expressions when he is being interviewed he has the sincerity of a bath towel. If he loves his son so much, he would not have drug him away from everything familiar to him. Sean does not remember his father or his life in New Jersey- all that he knew was the family he had in Brazil, his home there, his friends, his baby sister, his school. He has been RIPPED away from this against his will, like an iPod being returned to its owner; except Sean Goldman is a person with feelings and rights. I am not saying that I agree with what his mother did but that was his mother's choice, not his. David Goldman should have at least engaged in a transition type period with Sean instead of just snatching him out of all that he knew and throwing him into a situation where he knew no one and did not even speak the language. That is cruel no matter how you justify it! “Oh, he will adjust”- yes, at some point he will I guess, but at what cost to HIM? This became a pissing contest and what was best for Sean was not even taken into consideration in the end. I do not think David has Sean's best interests at heart, not at all. I believe that he is enjoying the notariety, and the opportunities that this has brought him to be in the limelight. I think Sean should have been allowed to stay in Brazil, and that David should have rebuilt his connection with the child before taking him.
Why isn't the story of the Jean Paul Lacombe Diaz getting this much attention? Why aren't politicians and HIllary Clinton out to help this mother whose child was actually kidnapped? This story is not even in the media any more– no one is coming out to help her, or build fancy websites, or paying high priced lawyers for her, why? Where is the media on this story? I guess they are too busy covering David Goldman…..
Another bunch of unsubstantiated, ill-informed, pure Brazilian merda de touros
Angela,
Your comments reflect a lack of true knowledge of the events and, quite frankly any compassion. David Goldman is not lining his pockets; he is deeply in debt. He made an exclusive deal with NBC to air a documentary and has otherwise asked the press to stay away. He does not look at the camera, but is uncomfortable as an actor, unlike the evil Brasilians. Angela, tell me, does the abudction of Sean, then justify his staying there in Brazil because it is what he know? If someone took me away from my father and managed through manipulation of the courts to keep me, do you not see how ridiculous it is then to argue that I should stay in Brazil because “it is what i know?”
David Goldman meticulously kept records of his efforts to see Sean that were turned down. He kept records video and otherwise of returned gifts, letters, etc. He did so nobly, and did not take low shots at his ex-wife while living or dead, eventhough she acted so horribly to him and with such cruelty.
The highest courts of the world agree on one thing. That Sean Goldman was abducted illegally. That it was a serious crime. Just because the stepfather and evil grandmother were able to stretch things out in a corrupt Brasilean court doesn't mean Sean should have ever been there.
You either do not understand the evil that Bruna, her mother Silvana or the stepfather did to David, or you are evil yourself. Sean is with those who love and deserve him the most. Face up to that, and just shut up.
Eric
Someone or some THING got hold of her mind…either her mother and family, Joao Paulo or feeling used at home in NJ possibly.
If she was an entitled woman who felt that God and everyone else existed to serve her wants, perhaps she was like Monica Lewinsky's on-camera assertion that her own dad said, “What Monica wants, Monica gets.”
She did date a top model when they met, so she surely wasn't starting at the bottom in an industry where she herself would have liked to shine. I was very touched by the ring he designed her with diamonds from the women in his family.
It is too late to impact her choices, but would be very, very interesting to know what she felt. The screaming that I heard in her recorded calls was over-the-top, demanding David fly to Brazil so that he could sign papers she was attempting to deceive him with. Made me wonder if 'friendship' with Joao Paulo may have caused a complete abdication of her responsibility to her husband + the usually accompanying personality/character change. Luke 9:25 What good is it for a man (woman) to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his (her) very self?
Bruna's New Jersey affidavit was part of a video, but difficult to read because of the overlay of words that were being emphasized on top of the document.
I feel that a little more data would teach me more and help me to get a grasp of Bruna's inhumanity toward her husband, (and ultimately, her son.)
I agree very much that the Bianchi family's decision to continue to wage war against David, will continue to harm Sean. He would have allowed them to come and visit him. Now, it appears the most intelligent thing he can do with whatever compensation he is able to get from them for their continued abduction of Sean even AFTER the death of their daughter, is to employ a full-time bodyguard so they don't hire PROFESSIONAL abductors next time.
RoseChurch – you obviously have not been following the struggle of David Goldman to regain custody of his SON – Please only reply to threads that you have at least a drop of knowledge otherwise you make yourself look extremely ignorant. I pray for you and your family
raphaefeli, your comments are insightful and humbling to me as an American citizen. It must have been hard for you to leave your home country. I'm honored that you chose the United States for your new home.
I don't know if I call the US home either. I really like being here but my true home is Brazil. They say “home is where your heart is”. It's very hard for me not to be there but sometimes we have to give up something to have personal fulfillment, achievements and be respected. I'm not an American citizen, but I am respected and treated like one here. I go down to Brazil every year and it is a big wake up call when you see people just trying to take advantage of you or their lack of respect towards others properties, physical appearance, etc. I think if people would be more respectful of others there it would be a totally different place. I would go back right away.
What really ticks me off is these kind of people like Sean's grand-evil-ma and his stepfather who think they are above everyone else. They have status and money because they were “smart” to take advantage of others. They are just as corrupted as the government.
I can't even talk about this cause it really makes me angry. All people need is love and things will take care of themselves. I hope Sean will be ok and everyone else.
This Brazilian family who have shown that they have no regard of for Sean's best interest by seperating him from David for five years. Their continued disregard for the law and continued insistence of dragging the case out for years, caused unspeakable anguish and damage to both father and son. From what I've seen of their behavior and contradictory statements , are they the right people to raise Sean? In my opinion, I don't think so. They continue to make unfair statements about David, saying money is his motivation. How dare they, just because they are priviledged they think that money is all that matters and the motivation behind David's intentions. Look, there's more to life than money, there's love and the two don't have any correlation. I've seen other people make the same statements and that's just ridiculous. They say it's inhumane that he was separated from them and his half-sibling on Christmas eve. It was inhumane of them to separate him from his loving father all those years ago. They have said David made no attempt to see Sean in all those years. This has proven to be untrue. What kinds of role models are they for a child if they think they can flagrantly disobey court orders as evidenced on Dateline and disregard the law. Lins e silva is a family lawyer? Did he think the law is only what he wants it to be? They paraded Sean in front of the press hordes, they contradicted the American Embassy's offer of a private entrance. Unbelievable! They claim to love Sean or at least whatever their notion of love is. Now that Sean is with his Dad, they are having a temper tantrum like a spoilt child who did not get his/her way. Grow up people! Time to start acting like reasonable adults. Goodness knows the world has seen your behaviour and you should be embarrassed what most people across the globe think of your actions. If they love Sean, leave him alone to bond with his father and he may forgive them for his missed years with his dad in the future. The more they continue with their nonsense the more pain they are putting Sean through and if they loved Sean, they would not do this.
I sure do agree. It is ok in her mind to separate father and son, but when it comes to her family it is bad. She should have treated David like a human being, in the first place.
David Goldman was once a model who traveled around the world to earn his keep. I am not surprised that he was appealing to Bruna, knowing she was attracted to higher society. When he wanted to sell real estate, to be around his son more, and resort to ordinary living, she didn't desire him anymore.
I don't believe for one minute that David Goldman was cruel to her. She admitted that he was a great father to her son. Since when did working as a teacher become such a slavish thing for her? Did she really support the family? Perhaps she had the health insurance in the family that accompanied her job, but was her life so filled with drudgery?
Whatever things the Brazilian grandmother, Silvana, says about David is sickening. Did she really know this man? I doubt it. Did she really care about her son-in-law. Well…the answer is obviously NO.
Shame on the childs mother, and shame of the rest of her family. In my world, none of them would even exist after what they have done to this child. To this parent, David Goldman. Talk about an individual who deserves the largest award to man for his style and approach in how he has handled himself with thise. They get what they deserve. Shame Shame Shame on his deceased wife.
If I was Mr G. I would never allow my boy to go out of the country and I would never allow him to go to court. Those people in Brazil are freaks. Mr. G. is Seans' DAD. The maternal grandmother should be grateful for him, he's blood relative and not try to get him back. Go to the States and visit your grand son. Bring up your grand daughter in any way you see fit. Leave the Goldmans alone – it's enough already. Let Sean have a life – leave him alone with his Dad and his dads family. When are the Brazilians going to see the light? They are the ones doing harm and slamming Mr. G. Get a lif.
Very well said jeannie2007. Thank you.
I absolutely agree. Thanks for posting.