REPLAY Father and son arrive separately at US consulate to be reunited

Описание: (24 Dec 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide exterior of hotel where David Goldman is staying
2. Close of tourist police vehicle parked outside hotel
3. Media outside hotel
3. Various of Goldman''s motorcade leaving and driving to the US consulate with police escort
4. Exterior of US consulate
5. Security outside US consulate
6. Goldman''s motorcade arriving at US consulate
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Orna Blum, representative from the US Embassy in Brazil:
"The most important thing for us at the consulate, the most important thing for Mr. Goldman, and certainly for his Brazilian family, is to ensure that Sean and his family members can have privacy, can have a smooth transition and take care of themselves for the protection for the privacy and for the emotional well-being of Sean. We want them to be together at this moment and that''s why we''re doing it, and any information to the contrary is absolutely false."
9. Exterior of entrance to Silvana Bianchi''s (Sean Goldman''s maternal Grandmother) house ++MUTE++
10. Zoom out of car coming out of gates to house ++MUTE++
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Sergio Tostes, Brazilian family lawyer:
"I know that my duty is to deliver the boy at 9 a.m (11:00 GMT). We tried in every manner possible to get his grandmother on the flight. The U.S. government denied it and the Brazilian government accepted their refusal."
12. Car with Sean Goldman inside surrounded by media
13. Wide of Sean walking to the US consulate hugging his Brazilian stepfather, Joao Paulo Lins e Silva
14. Tostes trying to clear entrance so Sean and Silva can enter the US consulate
15. Pan of Sean and his Brazilian family arriving at the US consulate
STORYLINE
A Brazilian family delivered a nine-year-old boy to his American father in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, ending a five-year custody battle.
Sean Goldman was brought into the US consulate by several of his Brazilian relatives, who had to fight their way through a media scrum to get to the compound''s front door, as dozens of reporters and cameramen swarmed around them.
His father, David Goldman of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, was waiting for him inside.
Sean was seen crying as his stepfather, Joao Paulo Lins e Silva, and the family lawyer, Sergio Tostes, tried to get him past the journalists in front of the consulate.
Guards had to violently push back photographers and TV cameramen.
The boy carried his luggage and wore a yellow shirt with the Brazilian flag and Olympic rings underneath.
Orna Blum, a representative from the US Embassy in Brazil, had earlier said that Sean''s privacy was the most important thing for all parties involved - so the public handover seemed to contradict this stance.
His maternal grandmother, Silvana Bianchi, said it was extremely difficult to hand Sean over to his father.
Bianchi wanted to travel with Sean to the United States to help in the transition, but family lawyer Sergio Tostes said her wish was denied by Goldman.
Tostes said he had asked the Brazilian government to intervene but authorities said the father''s decision had to be respected.
Bianchi and the rest of the boy''s Brazilian relatives left the consulate about an hour after delivering him.
Goldman''s New Jersey-based lawyer, Patricia Apy, criticised how the turnover was conducted, saying a secluded location would have been preferable and the public handover caused unnecessary distress to her client''s son.
Goldman won a major legal victory late on Tuesday when Brazil''s chief justice upheld a lower court''s ruling that ordered Sean returned to him.
Last year Bianchi died in childbirth.

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