While an emergency ruling was expected yesterday, there are conflicting reports on whether a decision will come today as CNN says or if we will have to wait until tomorrow as Foxnews says. Here's how we got to this point:
Sean is 9. Five years ago, when he was 4, his mother and Goldman's wife, Bruna, took him to her native Brazil for a two-week vacation. She never returned. Instead, she divorced Goldman and married a Brazilian from a prominent and politically well-connected family.
Bruna and her new family ignored a New Jersey court ruling that ordered Sean returned to his father, and they fought Goldman's legal efforts to regain custody. When Bruna died last year in childbirth, Sean's Brazilian family moved to adopt him.
As he awaits the court's latest ruling, David Goldman is in Brazil hoping to bring his son back home. Here is the AP story bringing you up to speed:It's been a roller coaster ride as Goldman he has fought to get his son back. The Brazilian courts have ruled to return his son, only to have other justices step in and delay the ruling. Now Congress is starting to apply economic pressure to push a decision and it seems like some in Brazil are getting concerned:
Congress, angry with Brazil's failure to abide by international kidnapping agreements, has stalled a multi-billion dollar trade deal. And Brazil Attorney General Luis Inacio Adams issued a statement supporting Goldman, worrying about "damage [to] the reputation of Brazil before the international community."
Here is what the David Goldman had to say about the whole ordeal:
"It should be so simple shouldn't it? Just a parent and a child," he said. "Not two countries, not big governments, not judges. It's just the right of a parent and their child."
For Goldman's sake, I hope today is the day. I know it won't be real for him until he has his son on that plane returning home to New Jersey.
