The U.S. Fails Children Abducted From America To get a child back By Bernard Aronson The Washington Post Friday, February 19, 2010 For the millions who followed the story of David Goldman’s 5 1/2 -year struggle to retrieve his abducted son, Sean, from Brazil, their Christmas Eve return to the United States was a holiday “miracle.” In fact, extraordinary pressures…
English translation of a tremendous new article by Dorrit Harazim of Brazil’s Piaui magazine. It’s well worth the time to read because it includes information not previously known outside of Brazil and it’s legal system. The Last Moments of the Sean Goldman Case Also see Nine Days in December “The Christmas Miracle” which recaps the critical days leading up to…
David Goldman and his Brazilian attorney Ricardo Zamariola are today filing an emergency appeal with the Brazilian Supreme Court to negate the stay order issued by Justice Marco Aurelius Mello. It is hoped that the Supreme Court will hear the appeal today, if not the court goes into its Christmas recess, not returning until February 2010. Reacting to the events…
BREAKING NEWS – Thursday 17 December 2009 Brazilian Supreme Court justice Marco Aurelius issued a stay order on the return of Sean Goldman until February 2010 when the justice returns from recess. The stay order permits his review a writ of Habeas Corpus filed by Silvana Rebiero, Sean’s maternal grandmother who is not a party to this Hague Treaty case.…
David’s family, Dad, Barry, Mom, Ellie, sister and brother-in-law, Leslie and Chris, niece Adison, nephew Coltrane, aunts, uncle and extended family want to thank you for all you have been doing to help David and us in his relentless quest to be reunited with Sean. Without your dedication in sending emails, writing letters, making phone calls, attending the rallies, we…
The United States House of Representatives voted on March 11, 2009 to approve House Resolution 125 calling on Brazil to fulfill its treaty obligations under the Hague Convention and immediately return Sean Goldman to his father in the United States. The vote was Unanimous! Please check see, https://bringseanhome.org/hr125.html for additional information; links to Congressman Smith’s comments in the House in…
The date of Brazilian President Lula’s meeting with President Obama has been changed to Saturday March 14th. The protest rally will be from 2:00 to 5:00 to correspond with the 4pm meeting between Presidents Obama & Lula. The bus will leave NJ at 9:30am and we expect to be back to the parking lot at approximately 9-10pm, depending on departure…
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we may have to move the date of the planned rally in Washington DC. We thought we had a confirmed date of March 17 for the meeting between Presidents Obama and Lula, but it looks like that meeting date will change. Apparently, the issue is the fact that March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day…
The Today Show on NBC will air an update on the Sean Goldman abduction case at approximately 7:15 a.m. Eastern, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. The update will include clips from an interview with United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commenting on the case. NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, conducted the interview. David Goldman will also be…
The listing of cosponsors for H. RES 125 is updated as of 5:30pm today. I’ve added two tables to the H. RES 125 page which lists the names of the members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, highlighting those who have not yet become cosponsors. There is a separate table listing of the 13 members of the NJ Congressional…