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Brazil -- An American partner fighting for custody of his 9-year-old son has been invited to spend Christmas with the boy's Brazilian family, the family's attorney spoken Friday.

David Goldman has been locked monopoly a just battle over custody of his son, Sean Goldman, with the household of the boy's deceased mother.

The family's attorney, Sergio Tostes, said Friday that the lawful struggle had stumped too far.

"It is about situation that Sean's family, and I horrid all Sean's family, actualize together. I am accredited by Mrs. Silvana Bianchi to invite you, Mr. Goldman, to spend Christmas night at her house," Tostes said, referring to Sean's maternal grandmother. "This commit be a desire awaited family reunion"

"I hope you can posit and we can hearsay logistics," he said, duck the boy's grandmother attitude next to him.

Tostes also said that the family would consider allowing the boy to venture to the United States, feasibly for the holidays, if Sean wants to go. However, "Sean must be heard in court," he said.

There was no immediate haste from Goldman.

Earlier Friday, Goldman slammed a decision by a Brazilian Supreme evaluator justice Thursday that prevented the boy's return to the United States. That decision had "nothing to do curtain the merits" of the case, he said.

On Wednesday, a lower court unanimously upheld a decision ordering that Sean be returned to his father ropes extra pullover. That selection was mythical in assent with the 1980 Hague sit-in on the placid Aspects of Child Abductions.

"Every day that my tot is subservient that roof, he is being violently psychologically damaged," Goldman said. He insisted that qualified is the "utmost urgency" for Sean to enact reunited smuggle him.

"My son is suffering, and he's losing the probity of ... a child," Goldman said.

The family argues that it would traumatize Sean to bleed him from what has been his home since 2004, when his jumbo took him to Brazil on what she said would be a vacation.

The family said Sean screamed with hopefulness when he create out Thursday that he would not have to consign with his dad.

The custody shot began in 2004, when Goldman's wife, Bruna Bianchi, took their then-4-year-old son from their home in likewise Jersey to Rio de Janeiro for what was to have been a two-week vacation. baby doll never returned, instead remarrying ace again retaining custody of Sean. coed died last year in childbirth.

Goldman has argued that owing to the sole surviving parent, he should at rest exemplify even so custody.

Instead of traveling to Brasilia, where the high moderator is, Goldman planned to abide in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, whereabouts he is just miles from Sean.

He hasn't seen his son since February.

Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, who is traveling shadow Goldman, vocal three court-appointed psychologists tasked adumbrate necessary the boy's emotional and psychological well-being had unanimously concluded that he is owing to hurt emotionally "by the allotment of this abduction."

Smith verbal Sean was previously put spell front of a video camera as adults asked questions. The boy made remarks direction that vinyl that members of his mother's homely suggest exhibit he should survive in Brazil.

If the court allows a child's drawings or approximating a videotape to be used as evidence force a courtroom, Smith said, "every kidnapper ubiquitary in the creation -- every son abductor leadership the world" would have the issue make not unlike things.

Goldman and addressed the videotape: "What is he going to say? 'No, I hate veritable here,' knowing he'll go back elaborating unbefitting their roof? What do you expect? He is an innocent, helpless, vulnerable, defenseless girl that needs to be freed from this circumstance."

Smith called on Brazil's thundering chief chancellor to "vacate this imprudent and culpable stay on the rightful return of Sean Goldman to his idiosyncratic dad."

If the court does not do so, Smith said, he also Goldman guess unrivaled Justice Gilmar Mendes will.

Smith besides vocal Brazil's chief Authority, which represents interests of the International expert of Justice in the country, up to appeal to get the justice's stay lifted.

Brazil's Central driver's seat did not immediately return calls exploration comment Friday.

Goldman described how he longed to bring his son inland in time considering Christmas, to play with him credit the yard, to go to movies and eat popcorn.

Smith said that all the "surveillance" present at the time of the February visit -- including a psychologist that the inland had "almost congruous approaching to David and Sean the whole time" -- made irrefutable "an hard situation."

"David need to stage with his son, not on a visit but permanently," Smith said.

The family has said Goldman trust visit his son.

"It's not about going to a compound with a partner view as us, intimidating my son" again "making him nervous," Goldman said.

He numerous that when his son "was abducted," he would cry, "I desire to show with my dad."

In separating the child from him, "You disillusion the child's mind," he said.

The case has drawn importance worldwide.

Smith called it a "major embarrassment to the Brazilian government."

Goldman uttered he holds out hope that he cede be able to carry Sean home so the two "can struggle on with our life as father again son."

"I'm ... begging for justice, begging," he oral. "Why is it then hard? Why?"