#business : David Goldman's "A Father's Love"

Memoir coming from NJ man in 5-year custody battle

(AP) – 23 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey man whose 5-year custody battle for his son became international news has a book coming out next year.

David Goldman's "A Father's Love" will be released in May by Viking, the publisher announced Monday.

In 2004, Goldman was married and living in Tinton Falls, N.J. when his wife Bruna Bianchi flew to Brazil with their 4-year-old son, Sean, for what was supposed to be a vacation. She announced she was staying there with Sean, later divorced Goldman and remarried.

Goldman spent years in American and Brazilian courts before he finally brought Sean home in 2009. Bianchi died in 2008 in childbirth, but Sean's Brazilian stepfather and grandmother continued to fight for custody in Brazil.

I do not know if Sean is alive or dead, says grandmother



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Today in Leaf From June 22 Silvana Bianchi does not know his grandson, Sean, who lived beside him for five years. That day, the boy called last, and in a brief conversation in English, said he was fine. Within six months, they talked four times. The report is Cristina Grillo, published in the Folha this Tuesday (fully available to subscribers of the newspaper and UOL).

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Sean left Brazil on Christmas Eve last year after a Supreme Court decision (Supreme Court) ruled that he be handed over to his father, American David Goldman.

It was the second loss of Silvana in an interval of one year and four months. In August 2008, daughter Michelle, 34, mother of Sean, died of postpartum hemorrhage.

The legal battle around the guard Sean involved, besides the STF, the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who in March 2009 asked the Brazilian government to return the boy.

Sean came to the country on holiday with his mother in 2004. Here, Bruno said her husband would not return.
Rafael Andrade / Folhapress
Silvana Bianchi at his apartment in Jd. Botanico in Rio, she says she does not speak with her grandson Sean since June
Silvana Bianchi at his apartment in Jd. Botanico in Rio, she says she does not speak with her grandson Sean since June

In American Justice, the maternal grandparents asked, without success, the right to visit him. "I do not know if my grandson is alive or dead," said Silvana, chorando.Segundo her former son-changed home phone and not answer the phone.

Soon after the departure of his grandson, Silvana received an email from David setting the rules for future contacts, should speak English, a language that does not dominate, he could not talk about Brazil or about the sister, Chiara.

If the courts do not grant you the right to revise his grandson, now aged ten, says Silvana, the hope is that he grows up and question the father. "I'm sure they will want to see us. That is his right."

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