Tinton Falls resident David Goldman‘s four-year battle to win the return of his now 8-year-old son, Sean, after an international parental kidnapping moved to the spotlight in Washington yesterday.
The House of Representatives voted 418-0 in favor of a resolution, HR 125, calling on Brazil to honor an international custody convention “as a matter of extreme urgency” and immediately return Sean to his father.
Goldman supporters now hope the case will be a topic of discussion on March 14, when President Obama meets with Brazil’s president, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, at the White House.
Goldman’s local supporters are planning a rally near the White House
during the Obama-Lula meeting. Information about bus transport is
available here.
The boy’s mother, Bruna Goldman, took him on a vacation to
her native Brazil in 2004 and never returned to the U.S., telling David
Goldman by phone that she wanted a divorce. She remarried, but died
last year after giving
birth to a second child, leaving Sean in the custody of his Brazilian
stepfather.
Here’s C-Span video of the House vote.
