If Helvecio Ribeiro (Bruna’s uncle) is the family spokesman for the Bianchi family, they better find themselves a new spokesman! Last night on Larry King Mr. Ribeiro was giving his side of the story pertaining to the kidnapping of Sean Goldman! Not only did Mr. Ribeiro, make slanderous allegations against David Goldman, questioning his morals and his love for his son Sean, he went so far as to say that David didn’t really love his son because for the past four years David hasn’t sent any child support for his son!
Duh! “Helvecio Ribeiro to Planet Earth!!!” Like someone is going to send the kidnappers money to take care of the kidnappee! Has the world gone mad? If this story wasn’t so tragic, I would be laughing my head off at the ludicrous comments that Mr. Ribeiro made!!! (Instead, show me a wall so I can bang my head!!!)
Mr. Ribeiro alluded to the fact that in the U.S., 
David Goldman has had six months to campaign against the Ribeiro family….well, let me tell you Mr. Ribeiro, you can stay in the U.S. 6 months, 6 years, or 60 years; you’re not going to get people to take your side! Your niece abducted her son and took him to Brazil without his father’s consent and now that she’s dead her Brazilian husband is fighting to keep Sean in Brazil! He’s an American child that needs to be returned to his father! Period!
Maya Muses: Although several American politicians such as, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and several Senators and Representatives are getting involved, don’t forget that David Goldman needs all the support he can get during a rally at Lafayette Park on March 17th in Washington D.C. when Brazilian President Lula will be meeting with President Obama at the White House. Pressure needs to be put on the Brazilian government to return Sean home to his dad! Click here to help if you belong to Facebook, or here if not!
(Our prayers are with you David!)
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21 responses so far ↓
1 Tina // Mar 5, 2009 at 9:39 am
totally agree with what you say.
think this guy needs to wake up!!
i´ve got male friends who have got kids but for reasons can´t be with them and if their ex partners turned around one day and said “sorry you can´t see your kid again!” they´d be fighting too!
2 Lynn // Mar 5, 2009 at 6:23 pm
I wonder what the real reason is, why João Paulo Lins e Silva (Sean’s stepfather) is fighting so hard to keep Sean? Bruna herself said that David was a wonderful father; so he knows that morally and legally Sean should be with David.
3 Adriana // Mar 5, 2009 at 9:31 pm
I am so ashamed of Brazil’s way to deal with international issues, like this case. I am Brazilian and so pissed off with this whole thing! I wonder what the stepfather has to do with Sean, besides the fact that he married Bruna?
Father and son should be reunited once and for all and Brazilian authorities should do anything possible to stop this bad repercussion about their country.
4 Lynn // Mar 5, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Adriana, I have Brazilian friends, and like you, there are many people in Brazil who feel that Sean should be with his father David. I think the Lins e Silva family just thought they were powerful enough to get their way and didn’t count on David continuing his fight for his son!
I’m glad to see that you’ve written about this matter as well! The more publicity that can be focused on this case, the better it is for David and Sean. I have high hopes that he’ll get his son back this year!
5 Tina // Mar 6, 2009 at 4:33 pm
I hope so too!!!
6 Lynn // Mar 6, 2009 at 9:30 pm
I want to mention here that there is a possible change for the DC Rally on March 17th. It may be switched to March 14 or 18th; I’ll keep everyone posted.
7 California Homeowner // Mar 7, 2009 at 4:33 am
I am just catching up on my Tivo’d shows, and am watching this Helvecio Ribeiro character right now. I can’t stomach a thing he says and laughed out loud at some of it. He is simply not credible.
8 Lynn // Mar 7, 2009 at 6:05 am
CH, I had the same reaction! If this is the spokesman for the Bianchi family, I don’t want to see what the rest of the family looks like!
9 JEAN PIERRE DE MELO // Jun 8, 2009 at 4:35 pm
TENHO VERGONHA DE SER BRASILEIRO NUM MOMENTO DESTE
O BRASIL E PAIS QUE TEM MAIS EMPRSARIOS SEM NEHUMA RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIAL E SO DINHEIRO
VE SO O PORTA VOZ IMBECIL QUERENDO QUE O PAI LEGITIMO DA CRIANCA SUSTENTE FINACEIRAMENTE UM ADVOGADO QUE RAPTOU O FILHO ? E SO O BRASIL UM PAIS DE … PARA ….
O BRASIL E UM PAIS MARAVILHOSO EM DOIS SENTIDOS PELAS GRANDEZA DO TERRITORIO E PELA GRANDEZA DAS BURRICES
VOCES TEM O QUE MERECE
10 JEAN PIERRE DE MELO // Jun 8, 2009 at 4:43 pm
O BRASIL E O PAIS DAS PIADAS E SO VER A REALIDADE E O PODER DE CORRUPCAO QUE EXISTE
NESTE PAIS EXISTEM PESSOAS HONESTAS POREM E UM MINORIA INFELIZMENTE
RAPTAR UMA CRIANCA E COISA DE CADEIA
POREM SE VOCE E ADVOGADO E TEM DINHEIRO E CONHECE AS PESSOA CERTAS
VEJA O QUE DEU
SOU BRASILEIRO E ME SINTO ENVERGONHADO NESTE MOMENTO
O PRBLEMA NAO O MENINO SER BRASILEIRO .ELE SERA SEMPRE BRASILEIRO O PAI TEM DIRETO DE SANGUE E LEGAL E TER O FILHO DEVOLTA
ISTO E BASIDO DIRETOS DE UM SER HUMANO ,PENA QUE NO BRASIL AS COISAS ACONTECEM DIFERENTEMENTE
11 Lynn // Jun 10, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Jean-Pierre,
Brazilians need not be ashamed, it’s the Brazilian government that allows judges and lawyers and powerful, rich families like the Lins e Silva, Ribeiro, and Bianchi’s to make their own laws that should be! If Bruna Bianchi had come from a poor Brazilian family, Sean Goldman would have been back with his father five years ago!
(Brasileiros não precisam de ter vergonha, é o governo Brasileiro que permite que os juízes e advogados e poderoso, como as famílias ricas Lins e Silva, Ribeiro e Bianchi’s de fazer as suas próprias leis que devem ser! Bruna Bianchi Se tivesse vindo de uma família pobre Brasileira, Sean Goldman teria sido o pai de volta, com cinco anos atrás!)
12 Janete Vasconselo Schneider // Jun 11, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Força David estou orando por você, e sei que Deus vai trazer seu filho de volta você é o pai e tem todo o direito pelo seu filho,ame ele acima de tudo e creia em Deus, logo logo Sean estará com você…
13 Lynn // Jun 13, 2009 at 12:00 am
Janete, from your mouth to God’s ears!
(Janete, de sua boca de Deus orelhas!)
14 Andre Braga // Dec 24, 2009 at 11:16 am
It´s all about love. It´s a whole family in Brazil, grandfather, uncles, cousins, aunts, step-father e mainly his GRANDMOTHER… they all have been around Sean for the last 5 years and even before that… that´s called LOVE.
Bruna got divorced because she did not have a peaceful life in U.S, David would be very aggressive (beating her) sometimes, as they say.. That´s why she ran away back to her family in Brazil.
Even so, David had the opportunity to see his son, with the consenment of the brazilian family but he wanted more… he wanted his son back, maybe to hurt Bruna for trying to be happy againd and marrying a good man.
But David has his rights, as a father. But let´s not forget that Sean´s grandmother and her whole family love that kid, and now that her daughter Bruna has passed away, he means even more… he means his mother is with them somehow… In Brazil Sean has a complete and caring composed by sibling, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces and a little sister as to being in the U.S all he has is David, at least I have never heard of any other american relative fighting for that kid.
Poor Sean…
15 Joao Resende // Dec 24, 2009 at 1:05 pm
As coisas sao mais complicadas do que voces estao querendo desenhar! A Justica tem que ser fria, faz parte, mas, neste caso especifico, ta na cara que a crianca deveria ter sido ouvida! Pra mim eh evidente que sua ligacao com a avo, a meia-irma e mesmo com o padastro - e, por que nao?, com o Brasil, sao muuuuito fortes. Ele, Sean, deveria ser ouvido e um juiz criterioso deveria leva-lo em conta, antes de simplesmente decidir entrega-lo ao pai. Pai esse que passou todos esses anos sem ao menos visitar seu filho!
16 Lynn // Dec 25, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Andre, what you seem to be forgetting is that Sean also has an American family (Grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.) who was denied the right of seeing him, knowing him, and being with him for the past 5 years. You say “it’s all about LOVE” - well what about the love between a son and his father? Not a step-father, but his own father who has been fighting for the right to see his son and be with his son, but was denied that right by a family in Brazil who thought they were above the law?!!!
You say “David had the opportunity to see his son,…. but he wanted more!” Of course he wanted more!!! How ridiculous! He wanted his son! What parent who LOVES his child wouldn’t want more than just the right to visit him!!!??? Especially when he was never told by his wife that she was taking their son away from him forever! He never gave up custody of his son, instead Bruna took Sean to Brazil without David’s consent. She remarried when the divorce was never legally recognized here in the States, so legally she was never married to João Paulo Lins e Silva and, therefore, legally he was never really Sean’s step-father.
You say that Bruna left David because he beat her? It’s her word against his. He says he never beat her! Who do we believe? No one will ever know the truth except for Bruna and David. There are two sides to every story and then there’s the truth. In a couple only the two people involved know for sure what happened, so it’s useless to discuss something that neither you nor I know for sure.
You also say that maybe David “wanted his son back, maybe to hurt Bruna….”. Do you see how asinine that sounds? Uh, maybe David wants his son back because that’s his son and he loves him and being the only parent left, he wants to raise his child! Have you thought about that???
From this photo of Sean and David flying back to the States to be with his American family, he doesn’t look like “Poor Sean” to me! Actually, he looks quite happy!
17 Lynn // Dec 25, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Joao, you say that a father who “all these years never visited his son.” Do you know how many times David went to Brazil to see his son and then was denied the right to see him once he arrived in Brazil? Over and over he was not allowed to see his son! Is that justice? Is that right? Is it right for one parent to kidnap their child without telling the other parent and just take the child away to another country? Of course not, but that’s what happened and I admire David Goldman for not giving up this battle with a powerful Brazilian family who thought they were above the law, and who thought they could manipulate the law!
Well it took the US Senate to place a hold on a 2.75 billion dollar trade deal a year with Brazil to finally get the Brazilian Supreme Court to rule in favor of David Goldman. I’m sure without that political pressure Sean would still be in Brazil. Money talks and I guess the justice system weighed the pros and cons and decided that it just wasn’t worth losing 2.75 billion dollars each year to keep the little American boy in Brazil, right?
If the Lins e Silva family was so concerned about Sean, why did they parade him in front of all those cameras for the world to see? Why didn’t they accept the offer that the US Embassy gave the family to go through a secure entrance to the consulate so Sean wouldn’t have to be made a spectacle of? No! Instead the Lins e Silva family wanted to protest the handover and they didn’t care if it traumatized Sean or not!
Let Sean spend time with his father and his American family and then ask Sean what he wants to do. What a pity that his Brazilian family couldn’t have shared that love that they have for him with the love that Sean’s American family has for him as well.
18 Ana Cristina Costa // Dec 30, 2009 at 8:07 pm
About this non sense the Brazilian family friend’s keep saying that David beated Bruna… I sincerely doubt that is true. I small 4 year old child VIVIDLY EXPRESSES FEAR when in the presence of an adult that is violent. The child may still happen to love the violent parent, but nevertheless can’t hide hte fear that she feels when this agressive adult is in their presence. This is a fact. Pets also have this spontaneous reaction. When they are close to an agressive/abusive owner, they demonstrate fear (although they continue to love them). It’s something small children and animals instinctively do. They can’t hide or disguise their fear.
Has anyone here EVER seen any video in which Sean demonstrates FEAR towards David? NO! They only thing we see in the home made videos is a VERY HAPPY CHILD, that feels very loved by his father!
If David had ever been physically aggressive towards Bruna, Sean would fear him. It’s that simple.
19 Lynn // Dec 31, 2009 at 2:47 am
Good point, Ana!
20 michael // Jan 11, 2010 at 12:46 am
thank god he is home! just watch the show on TLC I am soo sry you had to go through all of that. tell me how its goin!
21 Lynn // Jan 20, 2010 at 2:54 am
Like you Michael, I’m glad Sean and David have been reunited and are back in the States despite all the hardships they had to endure!
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