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The case neared its conclusion Wednesday when lawyers for the boy's Brazilian stepfamily said they were giving up the fight and handing him back to his American dad. "There comes a time when you have to say the war is over," Sergio Tostes, lawyer for Sean's step father...
Tostes said he was speaking with representatives from the office of Brazil's Attorney General to make the practical arrangements for handing over the boy. The AG's office is the plaintiff in the case, and the legally proper authority to decide where and when Sean would be returned to...
Tostes' statement appears to have quashed that possibility, freeing Sean to return with his dad to New Jersey - where he has not lived for the past five years. According to news reports, the boy barely speaks English now. Lawyers for Goldman did not return telephone calls.
Bianchi then fell pregnant with her new husband's child but died in childbirth in 2008. Her husband refused to return Sean to his father, and has been fighting for custody ever since. He and his Brazilian family said the child had spent so long in Brazil that it would...
The Goldman case has caused considerable controversy in both Brazil and the U.S., with the presidents of both nations publicly proclaiming that Sean should be returned to his father. Public opinion, also, has been fervent and divided. Many Brazilians believe the boy should be reunited with his father, but others...