brazil custody case

brazil custody case


Brazil Supreme Court agonizing vigil in Rio de Janeiro for more detail follow.
With a Brazilian Supreme Court ruling on the custody of a 9-year-old New Jersey boy imminent, the boy’s father, David Goldman, maintained an agonizing vigil in Rio de Janeiro while a legal adviser to the boy’s Brazilian family denied a published report that the family had offered a deal to Goldman.

According to NBC correspondent Benita Noel in Rio, a reputable Brazilian newspaper reported today that the maternal grandmother of Sean Goldman, Silvana Bianchi, was willing to turn Sean over to his dad, David Goldman, if she could accompany the boy on the plane back to New Jersey. But a release from Sergio Tostes, a legal adviser to the Brazilian family, said that the reported offer of a deal “derives from misunderstanding” and is “unfounded.