Rough translation:
She says they are doing everything to be able to see Sean and that she spoke with him 6 times by phone. She mentions his birthday and that she sent a card and an e-mail, but she didn’t get a reply or a telephone call back. She was asked by the host where Sean is living now and she replied that “I think that he must be living with his father”. The host asked if during the last call Nona felt that he remembers Brazil, and Nona said, “He remembers everything from Brazil and that he is now speaking Portuguese with a bit of an accent because he was prohibited to speak Portuguese”. She also stated that the level of “blockage” to speak with “family” that he doesn’t even speak Portuguese anymore. “The other thing” she said, “is that Sean has a sister” and that “he is being deprived to be able to live with his sister. He doesn’t have the right to live with his sister, he doesn’t have the right to live with us, he doesn’t have the right to know anything about here. He is totally blocked.” She says that the Hague Convention says that the child has the right to live with the family and that “the most important thing that the Hague concludes is the well-being of the child.” And in this case, Sean’s well-being is the least thing people are worried about. This leaves me very hurt.” “my lawyers in Brazil are fighting for this visit to be done. Now the Minister took up our cause because it is a case of human rights. So, we’re going to begin negotiations at the levels of countries, of international relations, no longer a relationship of families. Because this is a case of families that became an international and public subject. And, as the United States used the State Department to enter into this case, now, our Minister will enter with her part for this visit occurs, because this IS a right, an international right that Sean continues having relationships with his Brazilian family. “I went to the U.S. in March of 2010 with my husband and we weren’t able to be with the biological father of Sean. The host asks what is “his” explanation as to why Nona can’t visit Sean and she says, “that we would interfere with the weel-being, adaptation of Sean with him, fighting. And it’s not that way.” The host says she’s the maternal grandmother and Nona replies that during the five years Bruna lived here that Sean lived with her (Nona) every day.” The host says that he “practically lived with you” and Nona says, “Yes, he lived with me.” The host asks “What would you say as a caution to those (Brazilian) women marrying foreigners, in countries that maintain the same rhythm of injustice?”, and Nona says “Pay attention so that your daughters won’t be affected, because in all of these cases, I think the saddest thing is that the children are affected, because if the marriage doesn’t work out, everyone goes to their own side. When children exist, they suffer greatly, and they are exactly the focus of the fight of the couple. The children don’t deserve that. Sean doesn’t deserve to suffer what he’s suffering now.” The host says that Nona and her husband are fighters and Nona says that her husband died 2 ½ months ago. The host says she is terrified with the injustices and this is one of the largest injustices I’ve seen in the last few years, for having, through the press, known the stories of who your family is and your daughter. I put myself in your place imaging the level of calmness you to maintain this peace. And now I know that you’ve lost your partner that was with you in this fight, the only thing that we here can do is make the facts public, pressure a little more, and I’m certain that the Minister, which I already had the opportunity to speak with her, will pressure as much as the government can, for you to at least have the right to live with (Sean). The host then asks what Nona is asking now and Nona says, “To visit and to create a regulation of visits, not only for me, but also for Chiara, my granddaughter, who has the right to live with her brother. In the end, they are orphans of their mother. They have an enormous lasso (connection), and they aren’t having this right to live together, neither he or her. And I, as a grandmother.” The host says that they will await news from Nona and hope, and that with all the connections in this country (Brazil) she’ll follow the news closely. Nona thanked the host for the opportunity to the she was given to keep people informed that they still haven’t been able to even see the boy since the last 6-minute telephone call in December (2010). I’m dying of longing. I want to see my grandson and that’s what I’m waiting for now, that the Minister will be able to to, since it really is a case of human rights. A case of Sean’s rights, me, Chiara, a case that needs to be resolved now in this form. I thank you.”
