Human Rights Chief Minister supports OAB

The Human Rights Chief Minister Maria do Rosário Nunes, today (march 25th) called Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil´s national chairman Ophir Cavalcanti, to express the solidarity to the entity and to affirm support for OAB´s position. The OAB has been criticized by the Foundation "Bring Sean Home" for having requested to the President of the Republic of Brazil, Ms. Dilma Rousseff, to intercede with the U.S. president, Barack Obama, to make possible that Sean Goldman´s maternal grandparents and his sister Sean Goldman might visit him.

The foundation, established by friends of the North American David Goldman, Sean's biological father, issued harsh criticism of OAB on their website. Sean Goldman was the subject of dispute since his mother, Bruna Bianchi, brought to Brazil in 2004. Bruna died in 2008 and the Supreme Court granted an injunction to Sean returned to the U.S. to live with her father. An U.S. court (Monmouth Court in New Jersey) has denied requests for visitation issued by the Brazilian grandparents in Feb, 17th, 2011.

Since then, Mr. Raimundo Ribeiro, Sean´s grandpa, passed away in March, 21st, 2011, in Rio de Janeiro. And, besides all the desperated requests to Sean´s biological father allow Mr, Raimundo see his grandchild, the Brazilian family never had an answer.
Only after the Brazilian press release the news over Mr. Ribeiro´s death and that the family´s requests were ignored by David Goldman and/or his attourney Patricia Apy, Mr. Ricardo Zamariola, a paulista attourney released a note to the press telling that "David Goldman offerred to Mr. Ribeiro visit Sean in a country near to Brazil, however, the family never answered to this offer."

*IF* Zamariola isn´t doing only his job as attourney (and you may know how attourneys can lie) and let´s assume his statement is truth, it´s still a ridiculous proposition. Mr. Ribeiro was at hospital for the last 40 days, on CTU, breathing by air tubes. How could he leave the CTU and travel even to Buenos Aires (Argentina) to visit his grandson?


Can you imagine that? Any of your relatives, pretty sick at the hospital, suffering of lung cancer in metastasis, having this kind of stupid proposition to visit a child relative? How could you act?