A Peruvian court has given paroled American Lori Berenson permission to travel to the United States with her toddler son to spend the holidays with her family, her attorney and estranged husband said.

“She’s traveling for family reasons to be with her parents” in New York, Anibal Apari, the Peruvian father of 2 1/2-year-old Salvador, told Efe Friday in a phone interview.

He said authorities on Thursday notified Berenson, who was paroled last year after serving most of her 20-year prison sentence for aiding leftist rebels, that she could travel to the United States between Dec. 16 and Jan. 11.