Sean's Interview shown on Globo TV!

[silviali]

I just read on the Brazilian Globo paper that the Brazilian family is talking about appealing to the UN to be able to see Sean. I was cracking up - with some many wars going on in the world, famine, etc and they think UN is going to pay attention to this delusional grandmother?

[Roberta Palermo]

My life was so calm,   and now I am giving a lot of interviews again about Sean's story. I love to say the mother started all the problems and the end of the story we already know! Next time, thing my darling. She couldn't imagine David wasn't going to give up. That's why he is the best father ever. So easy to explain! David you are the best.

[Roberta Palermo]

"Wonder if it's the same 'professional' who forced Sean to sit in an observation room and say he wanted to stay in Brazil.  Perhaps they can find someone who isn't already on the payroll?"

 


ME, MEEEEE, why don't they ask me??

[LukieD]

I just read on the Brazilian Globo paper that the Brazilian family is talking about appealing to the UN to be able to see Sean. I was cracking up - with some many wars going on in the world, famine, etc and they think UN is going to pay attention to this delusional grandmother?

Here we go again, just like a broken record. We heard this same nonsense back in March 2011 with the International Court in the Hague -- remember that one (see below)? Apparently that never went anywhere, just like this one won't either...

http://www.bringseanhome.org/forums/index.php/topic,3629.msg76104.html#msg76104

[Roberta Palermo]

Here we go again, just like a broken record. We heard this same nonsense back in March 2011 with the International Court in the Hague, remember that one (see below) Apparently that never went anywhere, just like this one won't either...

http://www.bringseanhome.org/forums/index.php/topic,3629.msg76104.html#msg76104

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz they are so boring. Why they don't find something important to do, please

[silviali]

I've suggested in other forums that she should go and get busy playing "Bingo" with her friends, but nobody listens to me... 

[silviali]

There is a change in their strategy... If you see the news in Portuguese at the Brazilian press the Brazilian family lawyers are trying to portrait David as a gold digger. They have always done that, but now it's the main focus - they are saying that he does not need the $250k to pay lawyers because he got lawyers from Brazil for free... Total distortion of the situation but trying to portrait him as exploiting the son and only worried about the money.

[Roberta Palermo]

Imagine if, instead of a father, we were talking about a "pour" mother! Oh, of course she would need the money to help her paying everything the bad family did to her. But this guy? He only wants money! Afff

There is a change in their strategy... If you see the news in Portuguese at the Brazilian press the Brazilian family lawyers are trying to portrait David as a gold digger. They have always done that, but now it's the main focus - they are saying that he does not need the $250k to pay lawyers because he got lawyers from Brazil for free... Total distortion of the situation but trying to portrait him as exploiting the son and only worried about the money.

[LukieD]

There is a change in their strategy... If you see the news in Portuguese at the Brazilian press the Brazilian family lawyers are trying to portrait David as a gold digger. They have always done that, but now it's the main focus - they are saying that he does not need the $250k to pay lawyers because he got lawyers from Brazil for free... Total distortion of the situation but trying to portrait him as exploiting the son and only worried about the money.

Aside from obvious distortion you point out, they fail to mention that the reimbursement of legal costs sought has to do mostly, if not entirely, with the legal fees racked up in New Jersey -- not Brazil. These people aren't fooling anyone. It's exactly this situation which puts on full display the need for the provision in the Hague Convention (last paragraph of Article 26) which allows for the applicant (in this case David) to be reimbursed for legal and other expenses by those found to be responsible for the abduction, and there's no doubt that granny falls into that category.

[silviali]

Aside from obvious distortion you point out, they fail to mention that the reimbursement of legal costs sought has to do mostly, if not entirely, with the legal fees racked up in New Jersey -- not Brazil. These people aren't fooling anyone. It's exactly this situation which puts on full display the need for the provision in the Hague Convention (last paragraph of Article 26) which allows for the applicant (in this case David) to be reimbursed for legal and other expenses by those found to be responsible for the abduction, and there's no doubt that granny falls into that category.

That's the problem - the Brazilian people don't know about it. I myself was unaware of how expensive are legal costs in the US until I actually moved here. So for the Brazilian people who just read the Brazilian press, it seems like David is trying to get the money for himself.

[gil]

There is a change in their strategy... If you see the news in Portuguese at the Brazilian press the Brazilian family lawyers are trying to portrait David as a gold digger. They have always done that, but now it's the main focus - they are saying that he does not need the $250k to pay lawyers because he got lawyers from Brazil for free... Total distortion of the situation but trying to portrait him as exploiting the son and only worried about the money.

Judge Guadagno of the NJ Court, in his ruling denying the grandparents visitation, lists the conditions required by David. A payment of $200,000 is not one of them.
 
from the ruling:
 
... David was still open to visitation. In a letter dated January 5, 2010, David's counsel wrote to the grandparents' prior counsel setting conditions for their visits:    
1. the immediate end to all litigation in Brazil which contests the repatriation of Sean to the United States or David's role as Sean's sole legal guardian; and
2. the Ribeiros will not make public appearances challenging the prior court determination; and
3. the timing and duration was to be directed by Sean's psychologist; and
4. all communications by the participants would be confidential and not disclosed.