You may be seated. -Hello, Your Honor.
-Hello. This is the case of<i>
Bosley v. Jackson.</i> Thank you, Jerome.
Good day, everyone. Good day. Miss Bosley, you and your son
have petitioned
the Court for a DNA test because you are certain he did not father
the defendant's
three-month-old son, Maverick, and there are two
other possible fathers. You say your son made
a young and dumb mistake by signing
the birth certificate and you need
today's paternity results to get his name off of it,
is that correct? Yes, Your Honor. Miss Jackson, you admit
to cheating with another man, but claim to be certain that Mr. Bosley is
Maverick's biological father. -Is that correct?
-Yes, Your Honor. So, Miss Bosley, explain why
you opened the case. Well, I opened the case because I feel like my son made
a terrible decision by signing
the birth certificate. You know, basically,
I just feel like, you know, we need to know.
We need to know because <i>I don't want my son to have to
go through life wondering
if this is his child or not.</i> So, you feel like you've got
to save your son from -a mistake he made.
-I do. Mr. Bosley, you signed
the birth certificate. -Yes.
-Even though you had doubts. I did sign
the birth certificate. Not saying
it wasn't the right thing,
it was stupid because I didn't...
I didn't know her. So, Miss Jackson,
Mr. Bosley says
he made a mistake. Well, my testimony is in the beginning, we were...
we were working together, and he was starting off like,
"Oh, I love you. Do you believe in first...
love at first sight?" And then, the next day,
well, the next day
we was talking, and then we had sex. And then he was
talking about, you know,
the kids, and all of that. And then I asked for a break because we were
moving too fast. I always said we were
moving too fast
in the beginning. So... you meet and
you almost immediately
start a sexual relationship. [Pearl] Correct, Your Honor. And start talking about
having babies? Correct. At first,
I didn't believe it
because I heard it once before. Yeah, 'cause you know
that's what men will say -just to get you
to lay down with them.
-[Pearl] Yes. Yes, Your Honor. They make it sound like
they wanna have a family. [Pearl] Mmm-hmm.
Yes, Your Honor. But they saying it
to everybody. -Mmm-hmm.
-[Judge Lake] Mmm-hmm. -So, you do sleep with him?
-Yes. And then, you know,
I had my own place
at that time. And he... I moved him in,
then that's when... I was cheating.
I made my mistake. I'm sorry.
I made my mistake
in the beginning of that two weeks
of me not knowing
if this is real or not. So, Mr. Bosley... -[Pearl] So, Your Honor...
-[Cydric] Well, Your Honor. [stammers] The situation
was how she told me. We were at the house
chilling, relaxing. And she basically came from
out of nowhere, a dude,
one of her ex-boyfriends, popped up at the house... -[audience exclaims]
-Yeah. -Popped up at the house--
-[Judge Lake] Popped up? -Yeah.
-So... -[Pearl] No, no.
-No, wait, what happened? He popped up at the house
and she went to go talk to him
for a little minute or so. But the whole time I'm looking out the window
trying to make sure
there ain't nothing going on. But at the time,
I was fine with that because we wasn't really...
we wasn't really together. We was just talking.
We didn't never fully
get together until-- So you sitting, but you
wasn't fine 'cause you
were looking out the window while she was talking. Because I just wanted
to make sure, you know. Exactly, 'cause
you weren't fine with it. You have admitted,
Miss Jackson,
"I made a mistake." You used the word "cheating"
and then you cleaned it up
and said "a mistake." [Pearl] Mmm-hmm. What happened?
You tell me 'cause I can't
get it out of Mr. Bosley. -I gave oral sex
to this person.
-[audience exclaims] -I don't... What man,
Your Honor--
-And he... -And he says--
-What man will believe
that she only gave oral sex? This is exactly why
you'll don't have no business, young, running around here, using sex like
it's like a...
an extracurricular activity. [audience exclaims] [Kenyatia] And, Your Honor,
just to interject, if you don't mind... Just to interject,
if you don't,
if you don't mind, I wasn't there
during the whole
sex and cheating thing. I found out
she was pregnant at maybe
about four months, maybe. And I told my son immediately, <i> that's not your baby.</i> <i> Like, you've been with her
not even long enough.</i> So, Miss Jackson,
when you found out
you were pregnant... -[Jackson] Mmm-hmm.
-...you told Mr. Bosley? Yes, Your Honor,
and then, he was like, "Oh, wow, you are?" You know, he was
excited about the situation. -Your Honor...
-And then... You'll had known each other
all of two months then,
and you'll was excited? It wasn't two months,
it was a month. -It was a month?
-Yup. [Cydric] No, I wasn't excited. The two guys
she cheated on me with, those were the guys
we worked together with. -Oh, so all of you
are co-workers?
-Yes, we all was co-workers. Your Honor,
I only cheated on him once. And that's with
the person that was at work. But I did have sex with two...
with one other person that was there at the job. And that was the person
that came to the house. The other person that
I didn't have oral sex with. -This is a mess.
This is a mess.
-[Kenyatia] Yeah. How many people
you gonna sleep with
at the same job? When are you working? [Kenyatia] That's why I'm here. -This baby, this baby
is what matters.
-[Judge Lake] Right. -And...
-[applause] Clearly, this situation here, nobody knows anything.
All they know is that
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the notification bell. It just adds up
that she has slept with
three men on her job. There should be
no young woman out here sleeping with three men
at her job. And that's why I'm like,
"What's going on here?" [applause] I feel like, Your Honor,
it goes a bit deeper than that -because you just don't
have women out here...
-Oh, it's deep. It's deeper. ...sleeping with men
on their jobs. Like, something is
a bit deeper than that. Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no. It does go deeper.
It does go deeper than that. This is about two kids, young people,
you are out here spinning, and you're engaged
in activities
that create people, and it did. Maverick is three-months-old. <i> Beautiful, innocent child.</i> <i> And I'm trying
to get the circumstances</i> as to what was going on
when he was conceived, and you can't even
tell the story. My last menstrual cycle
was March 14th. And when I did have
oral sex with that person, -I was on my menstrual cycle
at that time.
-[audience exclaims] This is not about
just the oral sex. -You need to understand this,
Miss Jackson.
-[Jackson] Mmm-hmm. This is about the fact
that your child's
paternity is in question. If you have slept
with two co-workers, given oral sex to one, while you're supposedly
getting to know Mr. Bosley, no, it's not so far-fetched
that people would also assume that you may have slept
with that person or maybe even another person. At this point, you giving
yourself away for free. And that's another thing
that I haven't gotten to yet. 'Cause there's no reason
a beautiful
young girl, like yourself, should be running around here laying around with
this many men. It's unacceptable. [applause] And like I said,
I'm not saying this to you. Look at me when
I'm talking to you,
Miss Jackson. I'm not saying this to you
'cause I'm angry at you. I'm saying it to you
'cause I don't know if
you have anybody in your life to sit you down and say,
"You don't do that." You don't do that. Did you grow up
with your dad in your life? [sobs] No. He denied me, too. And it hurts.
[sobs] It hurts. I understand. I don't want my son
to grow up like that... without his dad
in the picture. Because I know how it feels, and I have my daddy issues. And growing up is hard. I understand
what you're saying. The way you feel about that, your actions are reflection of the fact that
you don't feel worthy. But that's not the way
we go about it, baby, because now you see
what has transpired has led you to
repeat the cycle. And that's what
we gonna break today. -[applause]
-Somehow, some way. So, Mom, I wanna ask you, you say you know
who Maverick's
biological father is. -Well...
-Well, Your Honor, I was... Actually,
how the situation
went about, um, I was in her phone one day. And I scrolled down to...
I was on Snapchat, basically. And I see a dude,
and I... I say,
"Whoa, he look just like my son."
I'm like, "What?" Your Honor,
he sent me that picture, and immediately,
just, in all honesty, I was like,
"That's not your son." Immediately, because
this made me think twice. And, Mom,
once you got that picture, -you believed this other man...
-[Kenyatia]
Oh, yeah, for sure. -...is the father.
-For sure. Well, you submitted
the messages that you saw. -See, look.
-And this is between Miss Jackson and the man
you believe is the father. <i> It says,
"I need some..." blank.</i> <i>That's what Miss Jackson said.</i> <i> He responds, blank,
"You can come this way, babe."</i> And then Miss Jackson responds,
blank, "Hell yeah." [Kenyatia] So, so, Your Honor, he resembles this man
in my eyes. And so you think
this other man <i> -is Maverick's
biological father.</i>
-[Kenyatia]<i> Could possibly be.</i> -[Cydric] Possibly.
-Well, this other man is here, -and I wanna hear from him.
-[applause] Jerome, will you please escort the other gentleman
into the courtroom? Wow. We're gonna go right up here.
Stay to the left. I see. -[Jerome] Right up here.
Upstairs.
-[man] Mmm. Mr. Green, thank you
for joining us today. Yes, ma'am. I wanna ask you
what's your relationship
with Miss Jackson? We met through a friend,
and then we started
talking through social media. All right, so,
was Miss Jackson interested in
a sexual relationship with you? Yes, Your Honor.
She was trying to have sex. So, do you believe you are
Maverick's biological father? No, I, no...
No, I don't. I just came here
to prove that I'm not. So, each of the young men have submitted
their baby photos and when you align them
with Maverick's, <i> there's Mr. Bosley as a baby,</i> <i>there's Maverick in the middle,</i> <i> and Mr. Green as a baby.</i> I just wanna know.
That's all I want, really. You know, it's a...
It's a kid on the line. And no disrespect to you,
that's why I called you up
that day, you know. -Mmm-hmm.
-[Pearl] It's not a kid,
it's a child. And I just wanna know. [Judge Lake] And at this point, what are you
hoping for, Mr. Bosley? Do you hope Maverick
is your son? Yeah, I do. -Okay.
-If he's mine, then, we can move on, but if he's not mine,
I'm gone. It's simple. What are your hopes,
Miss Jackson? What are you hoping for? I know you want
to break the cycle
for your beautiful son. [Jackson] I want him
to step up. Walking in the house
and going back out,
that's not enough time. Because that's... it feels like
that's what happened to me. [Kenyatia] Your Honor,
if I can just interject, my son, I love him, however,
he's wrong in this, too, because you can't just keep
running around making babies and not doing
what you're supposed
to be doing for them. -Period.
-[applause] I told Pearl
when I saw that picture, I felt like, okay,
this is not my son's baby. So, we've had
a conversation. Even if it's not his baby, I'm still gonna extend
the olive branch to her. -[Judge Lake] Well,
the olive branch...
-[applause] The olive branch
has been extended -and accepted, because your son
signed the birth certificate.
-Oh, yeah, for sure. But I even asked him
did he wanna sign
the birth certificate. -She didn't ask me that.
-Yes, I did. -You don't remember.
-Why'd you sign it? Same way he was
sitting out there
looking out the window, while she was sitting in a car
with another man. And the same reason why
she came back in and said she had had oral sex
with another guy. -And he still moved in.
-I signed it because
I felt like he was mine. [overlapping] ...messages,
and it's still in here. It's the same reason why. Jerome, I'm ready
for the results. [applause] These results were prepared
by DNA Diagnostics and they read as follows... In the case of<i>
Bosley v. Jackson...</i> pertaining to whether
Mr. Bosley or Mr. Green is the father
of three-month-old
Maverick Bosley... It has been
determined by this Court, the biological father is Mr... Bosley. [applause] That is your son. -Okay, I...
-Your biological son. Well, that's... It's off my chest.
That's all I came here for. That's all I wanted. I wanted him
to be my son. So, we got
what we came here for. [Judge Lake] I'm happy.
I'm happy for Maverick. But the way you have
approached your
sexual relationships thus far makes me want to caution you, that if you continue to use sex
as just an activity that you will
end up here again. And if he tells you
a half a line or tells you,
"You look cute today," you gonna be
back up there with him, and you know
I'm telling you the truth,
that's why I see that tear. You know
what I'm saying, right? -Yes, Your Honor.
-And every woman
has that moment. The next thing you know,
you in the bed, half way down to making
another baby with him. And I think
you know what I'm saying. I can see it in your eyes.
You get it, right? Yes, Your Honor. I just can't stand to see
a beautiful young woman just give herself away. [stammers] And you ask... you gotta ask God
for discernment. I'm, well, I'm about to be 50,
Jerome, I'm about
to be 50 years old and I still ask God,
I pray for discernment. Let me be able to see
what's really going on. -Right?
-Yes, Your Honor. And that's what
I want for you.
I have Dr. Jeff standing by for all of you. Because I feel like we're at
a real breakthrough point, and I think you see why you've been behaving
the way you've been behaving and what you're looking for, but we cannot
seek comfort under the covers. -Right?
-Yes, Your Honor. I wish you all
the very best. Court is adjourned. [applause]
