I read an article yesterday that said his Brazilian family is brainwashing him to want to stay in Brazil. His father thinks they are mentally torturing him there, and other people in Brazil have come up to him and basically said, this is a shame, you should get your son back. From what I have read, the ex-wife's husband's family has money and is well connected in Brazil; therefore, they are using everything they have at stall tactics. Of course this is one side of the story, and we don't know the other side.

Assuming that his father is not a bad guy, and I don't think he is, then he should get his son back. While extended families have rights, I don't think they should come over the rights of the biological parent who only isn't a parent because his wife kidnapped their son. Of course the son wants to remain in Brazil because that's the life he remembers. It's been five years and he was 4 when he was taken from the states. What child wants to leave the family he knows for a family he doesn't.

But that of course is where I see the problem too. They are using this little boy in a bad way. Sure they want to keep him but in the process they are tainting is view of his father. Sure people in custody battles do this all the time, but that doesn't make it right.

He was awarded custody and then for some reason one of the three judges that gave him custody filed an injunction to stop it temporarily. This might be the family's doing. The judges go on a two month vacation starting soon, so if he can't get them to change the injunction, he'll have to wait another couple of months to start over. It's a shame really that international politics has to be played using the life of a little boy.

This is just awful. But yeah, he is nine years old and he has been with his Brazilian family ever since he can remember - since he was four. He lives with his half sister who reminds him of his mother. He would probably never see his mother again if his father took him back to the States. No abuse is being alleged by his Brazilian family.

For all these reasons, yes, I do think it might be better for Sean to remain with his Brazilian family at this point.

I do kind of wonder why Sean's mother left with him in the first place. But as she has passed on, we may never know that.