She refused to do a paternity test part 2

[00:00:00]How long were you two together?

[00:00:01]>> Not two and a half weeks, maybe.

[00:00:03]>> Did you say two and a half weeks?

[00:00:05]>> Yes, Your Honor. As far as I know, she could have been pregnant before I even got with her.

[00:00:09]>> Why are you young people running around having unprotected sex with people you knew FOR TWO WEEKS?

[00:00:15]>> [applause] >> OKAY, MS. LOOSE, you worrying me now.

[00:00:19]Cuz look, you're a beautiful young girl, and I don't want you living up to your last name. So, Ms. Loose, you brought a witness today.

[00:00:25]>> Yes.

[00:00:26]>> Who did you bring?

[00:00:26]>> His mother.

[00:00:27]>> Jerome, can you please escort Ms. Vertigan into the courtroom? Hello, ma'am.

[00:00:31]>> Hello, Your Honor.

[00:00:32]>> Thank you for joining us today. Now, you are Mr. Zuniga's mother.

[00:00:36]>> Yes, ma'am.

[00:00:36]>> Explain to the court how you feel about the situation.

[00:00:38]>> my son. Don't get me wrong. I really honestly love my son, and I would be on my son's side, but his reasonings are crazy to me. What makes [snorts] you have a baby? Sex. What did they do? Have unprotected sex. I um submitted pictures earlier to the courts of how much they look alike.

[00:00:56]>> First of all, Your Honor, my mom, she's always wanted me to have kids once I got of age. I got older and started to have >> Oh my goodness. No, Your Honor, I didn't want him sleeping with nobody.

[00:01:04]>> She told me herself that she was that age to have >> even speak to me until after we found out I was pregnant because she thought I was just a fling.

[00:01:10]>> Because my son goes through women like toilet paper. I did not want to speak to her.

[00:01:15]>> But Your Honor, if you look at those pictures, their eyes look so much alike, and they have the same features. The dark circles. My grandson was born with jaundice, Your Honor, and my son was born with jaundice.

[00:01:24]>> I can't have all of this going on in my courtroom. Brown hair, brown eyes.

[00:01:27]>> My grandson has a muscle spasm in his eye.

[00:01:30]>> I look This kid looks nothing like me.

[00:01:31]>> Yes, because my son was is 50% Mexican.

[00:01:34]His dad is 100%. Does he look like my son, Your Honor?

[00:01:37]>> Listen, we have learned, Jerome, now you can testify for me on this.

[00:01:42]Looks >> It don't.

[00:01:43]>> sometimes have nothing to do with the DNA.

[00:01:46]>> Okay, but what about the jaundice? Both of them had jaundice.

[00:01:48]>> Ms. Loose, let me ask you this. You found out you were pregnant. You told him. Did he go to a doctor's appointment?

[00:01:53]>> He wasn't at any of the doctor's appointments, but he made sure that he had to get to the hospital when I had my son.

[00:01:59]>> I did drive 3 and 1/2 hours there.

[00:02:01]>> Yeah.

[00:02:01]>> It was snowing. I drove through the snow and everything and I also drove back. I drove there because I didn't believe the kid was going to come out.

[00:02:07]>> Your honor, can I stop the snow?

[00:02:08]>> drove there, I wanted to validate that he was my kid. I got there, he looked nothing like me. He looked a lot like that kid.

[00:02:14]>> So when you heard the baby was coming, you drove 3 and 1/2 hours. You said I want to go see this baby.

[00:02:19]>> No, your honor. Did you sign the birth certificate?

[00:02:21]>> I did at first and then she lost the paperwork.

[00:02:23]>> Well, wait a minute. Before we get to the part where you lost the paperwork, you drove 3 and 1/2 hours cuz you said you wanted to see if the baby looks like you. So if you signed the birth certificate, that I would presume that you thought it looked like you.

[00:02:34]>> Babies don't look like anybody when they're born.

[00:02:37]>> Right here, we have in the monitor a picture of you holding the baby.

[00:02:41]>> Well, I'm not a jerk, your honor. I didn't have a dad.

[00:02:44]>> You agreed to give him your last name.

[00:02:46]>> Yeah, and you didn't give him my name.

[00:02:47]>> Yes, this is important. Yes, this is important. You need to say what you need to say.

[00:02:51]>> He was so upset we couldn't make it. He was a mad. He was throwing things around in the house. He was upset we couldn't leave right then and there to watch his son be born because his dad wasn't there. Were you not?

[00:03:01]>> I was.

[00:03:01]>> And you feel very emotional because >> Because he went through it.

[00:03:05]He went through without a dad and he's going to have the same thing happen.

[00:03:08]>> The more I see him grow up, the less he looked like me.

[00:03:10]>> It doesn't matter. He doesn't know you.

[00:03:12]And he doesn't have to look like you.

[00:03:14]You don't look like me the more you grew up but I knew you came from me.

[00:03:16]>> Yeah, but I came straight from you.

[00:03:18]There's no doubt in that.

[00:03:19]>> IT DOESN'T MATTER.

[00:03:21]>> I KNOW who the father is. He has red hair.

[00:03:23]>> Ultimately, Mr. Zuniga, that's the reason you requested a lie detector test because you believed she was sleeping with other people. So was that during the window of conception?

[00:03:35]>> The guy I got with knew I was pregnant but I hadn't gotten I hadn't went to the doctors to get it verified.

[00:03:41]>> that now. I'm ready to go to the lie detector results.

[00:03:44]>> [applause] >> These results will determine whether or not a DNA test will be ordered. You met with a licensed polygraph professional.

[00:03:54]>> Yes, yes.

[00:03:54]>> Who has more than 20 years experience.

[00:03:56]>> Yes.

[00:03:56]>> And you took this test.

[00:03:59]You were asked if you ever had sexual relations with any other man while dating Pedro, which is Mr. Zuniga. You said no. The lie detector determined deception indicated.

[00:04:12]>> That's not a shocker.

[00:04:13]>> It is this court's finding that because you were with another man during the time you were also with Mr. Zuniga, we're going to order a paternity test.

[00:04:24]And I order [applause] both of you leave here immediately, submit to the testing, and return to this courtroom where we will have the results. Are we clear?

[00:04:37]>> Yes, ma'am.

[00:04:37]>> That's why I'm asking.

[00:04:38]>> Jerome, please escort them out. Court is adjourned.