According to the Associated Press, Brazil’s Supreme Court, yesterday, in a 10-0 decision ruled that 9-year-old Sean Goldman should be reunited with his father, thereby turning back the efforts by Brazil’s Progressive Party to overturn a similar ruling by a lower federal court.
An obviously delighted, but still cautious, David Goldman appeared this morning on NBC’s Today Show and talked about the Court’s decision.
Goldman said that even the Supreme Court had commented that Sean Goldman should have been returned to his father “a very long time ago.”
Goldman went on to talk about how the Court “exposed” the psychological damage that has been done to his son; that the people holding his son have, for several years, been waging a campaign to turn his son against him—to brainwash his son. He calls it “parental alienation.”
Goldman has been through such emotional ups-and-downs before, and is thus very cautious.
Apparently, rather than such a Supreme Court decision being final in Brazil, the case now goes back to the lower federal court for it to decide whether Sean should be reunited with his father.
And, knowing the power and influence of the families holding his son, it could still be a long and rough fight, as the families and their lawyers are likely to appeal, and appeal, and…
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The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.