A five-year custody battle has ended after the Brazilian family delivered a 9-year-old boy to his American father in Brazil.
The boy known as Sean, was brought in to the American consulate by his maternal grandmother and his stepfather, as dozens of reporters and cameramen tried to get close. His U.S. dad, David Goldman, was waiting for him inside.
Brazil’s Supreme Court chief justice two days ago had ordered the boy handed over to Goldman.
The pair were expected to fly back to the Goldman’s home in New Jersey within hours.
The case began in 2004 when Goldman’s then-wife took Sean to her native Brazil on what was to be a two-week vacation. Instead, she divorced Goldman, remarried, but died giving birth last year.
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