Dear Members of the Press:
The Bring Sean Home campaign has done an excellent job of focusing attention on the widespread tragedy of parental abduction. As you are already aware, there are over 40 cases alone representing over 60 children from the United States who remain illegally in Brazil... and 1000's of other children in other countries like Mexico, Japan, India etc.. We are grateful for the support from everybody who is part of the campaign as well as the media who are doing their best to focus the public's attention on this ongoing calamity.
Through BringSeanHome.org, millions of people around the world have learned about David's fight as well as those of us whose stories are still largely unknown. The situation of Sean is relatively unique in that at this point, David is the ONLY person who has a legal right to his child. Most of the rest of us still have our children's other parent to deal with.
Consider the power that you have as journalists and the obligation to always be conscious of the repercussions that an article or story you write may have. Many of the left-behind parents have been able to maintain some sense of a relationship with their children and live in fear of additional restrictions being placed by the abducting parent as a result of an aggressive news story being published.
We ask you to be aware of the delicate balance that we must play between aggressively promoting our stories and cause and the need to be passive so as not to "stir up the pot". Please be careful to not distribute our personal information that you may have obtained as well as always remembering to contact us for explicit permission before publishing any information about our case.
We write this letter as a precaution and are pleased to say that so far, our joint efforts have been successful without any repercussions. Again, thank you for your continued support.
The Remaining Left-Behind Parents
