You put your hands on her, she put her hands on you.
She started saying, you're never gonna see your kid
unless you go to a court and get custody, and you do this...
You don't fight over whether or not you can hold the baby.
If I'm being assaulted--
You shouldn't be assaulted over whether or not you can hold the baby!
Dumb and dumber.
[narrator] This is Judy Justice.
[narrator] Previously, on Judy Justice...
-You met in what month? -June.
[Judy] By July, you found out she was pregnant.
-Correct. -That's why we call it dating,
not mating.
Tell me about this alleged assault on July 21st.
She bites me. I got bit three or four times already.
So, at that point, I'm trying to get her off of me by pushing her forehead.
And they arrested him.
Yes, ma'am.
You called the police. You told them that your boyfriend had assaulted you.
That he had kidnapped your baby, and that he had guns.
That's the information that the police had.
-That's why we're here. -[Judy] They don't know
if they're gonna find a soft-spoken guy who had a fight with his girlfriend
and it got a little out of hand. Or whether they're dealing with a nut.
[narrator] And now, the conclusion...
Ja'Quan Madyun and Michelle Kerr-Madyun
are suing Ja'Quan's ex-girlfriend, Yezlyn Torres,
for stolen property, false police reports, and an assault.
-Okay. So, you were taken into custody. -Correct.
And you did, in fact, have a fight with her.
A fight?
Yeah, you had a fight with her. A physical fight.
You put your hands on her, she put her hands on you.
The other way around. She put her teeth on me,
and then I restrained her from biting me again.
I'm not sure of whether, sir, when you said you could see the baby,
that you didn't-- And I'm not suggesting that you hit her,
at that point, but I am suggesting
that you would have put your hand on her
to try to retrieve the baby.
Let me see if you even say that in your complaint.
Hold on a second.
"Yezlyn and I got into a heated argument. She was holding the baby
and I asked her if I could hold him.
Yezlyn refused, and slapped my hand. I kept trying to reach for him,
and she grabbed my wrist, and then kicked me in the groin
and bit me several times.
When I was finally able to get him..."
So, the fighting continued. So, there's a push-pull about this baby.
I don't understand. Craziness.
If she's acting irrationally, you shouldn't.
I wasn't acting irrationally.
[Judy] Yes, you were, sir.
You were in the house, and for some reason she got a bee in her bonnet.
If according to you, she was a regular smoker of what, marijuana or cigarettes?
Marijuana, ma'am.
So, who knows whether or not she was under the influence--
Whatever it is, you extricate yourself.
You don't fight over whether or not you can hold the baby.
I went to the garage, ma'am.
You don't fight over whether or not you can hold the baby.
-Me? -[Judy] Be a grownup, you're 30.
-Not the person who put their hands on me? -[Judy] Just a second.
You're not supposed to struggle over whether or not you can hold an infant.
If you asked her, can I hold the baby, which is what you said in here,
and she said no, I can understand why you're annoyed.
You don't go over and say give me, I want to hold it--
What kind of adult behavior is that?
Can I see our son to put him in our room?
Listen, this whole thing about assault is stupid.
Were either one of you treated medically?
-I did go to the hospital, yes... -[Judy] For what?
For bite marks. For assault by bite, yes.
Oh, I'd like to see the report.
-There's no question she bit you. -[Ja'Quan] Correct.
She refused to get medical attention.
There's no question that you put your hands on her.
To get her off from biting me?
If I'm being assaulted, I can't defend myself?
You shouldn't be assaulted over whether or not you can hold the baby!
I shouldn't be assaulted. Correct.
You shouldn't be assaulted because you shouldn't be fighting over--
I shouldn't be assaulted for asking to hold the baby.
You're not following me, sir.
-You're not following me. -[Ja'Quan] I understand you.
You made several errors in judgment.
Your first error in judgment was having unprotected sex.
That's the first thing, in June of 2023.
Mistake number uno.
I say the same thing to her!
Dumb! Dumb and dumber.
You're a little bit older than she is,
but mentally, you're probably younger than she is.
'Cause that's what happens to men, they don't grow up fast.
They don't grow up fast, and then they grow up not at all,
and then, they just get old.
I will deal with it.
Okay. So, you went to have this looked at two days later. Is that right?
When I was released from jail, yes.
-Then you went-- Absolutely. -When I was released from jail, yes.
[Judy] Absolutely, when you were released from jail,
you went and you had your arm looked at,
and it said, evidence of bite marks by his girlfriend two days ago.
So, you weren't treated, sir, for anything.
-You went there to memorialize-- -How could I be treated--
To memorialize your injury.
How could I have been treated if I was just taken to the jailhouse?
They did not even examine me.
Let me see what this doctor did for you.
Okay. So, they gave you an antibiotic because you were bitten. Right?
-[Ja'Quan] Yes. -[Judy] As a precaution.
Okay. And did you seek medical treatment?
No, Your Honor.
Funny, the police examined you, sir, right after this incident,
when you were taken into custody, before you were taken to jail.
-Is that correct? -I'm not aware of that.
Well, they did because you said, she bit me.
You must have said she bit you, it's in the report.
It said... it's in the report.
Did they have any pictures of those?
They evidently didn't think it was necessary.
Correct, exactly. But you can see in those pictures
that I have bruising and marks up my arm.
So, they couldn't see them at the time, so no, the wouldn't have examined those--
They couldn't see them at the time? You mean, at the time you were--
-[Ja'Quan] Arrested, yes. -Don't try to talk over me.
-At the time of your arrest... -Sorry. You asked me a question.
At the time of your arrest, the police saw two marks.
One on your hand and one on your arm.
The ones I told them about.
I'm not unsympathetic with you, sir.
-I'm trying to piece together... -Okay.
...the evidence of when all these bite marks--
-I'm trying to help. Uh-huh. -Well, you have to acknowledge this, sir.
If at the time of the incident, the police did, in fact, observe
a bite mark on your arm and one on your hand--
I had to tell them where the two were. They didn't even examine me.
I told them about the bites. The wouldn't even have looked at me.
-They did look at you! -[Ja'Quan] They didn't.
That's what I'm trying to tell you. I had to tell them I was bitten.
They did not look at me until I said,
wasn't I supposed to be examined, too?
Wasn't I supposed to be examined too? Sorry.
[Judy chuckles] This isn't happening for you, sir,
because you think that I'm stupid, like maybe some other people
that you deal with. I'm not stupid.
She's saying, you're never gonna see your kid unless you go to court,
and you get custody, and you do this and this.
That's why you should absolutely, sir, [chuckles]
absolutely have thought before you made a baby with somebody,
get to know 'em a little bit.
[narrator] Ja'Quan Madyun and Michelle Kerr-Madyun
claim Ja'Quan's ex-girlfriend Yezlyn Torres
bit him in the arm and lied to the police.
Yezlyn is countersuing Ja'Quan, claiming she was the one assaulted.
Now, what you just said to me was,
they wouldn't have even looked at the two marks,
one on my hand and one on my arm, unless I showed it to them.
I said to you, they did, in fact, look at them.
Correct.
You keep insisting they wouldn't have looked at them
unless I told them to look at them.
They looked at them.
-The answer is yes. -[Ja'Quan] Okay.
[Judy] After you told them to look at them.
Correct, okay.
And you told them to look at two marks,
one on your hand and one on your arm.
Which they did and which they noted in here.
Two days later, after you were released from jail,
miraculously, you had bite marks all up and down your arm.
That's all I'm saying.
The police noted the two marks you told them to look at.
Two days later, you had multiple bite marks--
And bruises.
Okay, we're done here. We're done with the assault.
-Your Honor, can we finish? -Do you have any medical records?
I have pictures that I took.
-Do you have any medical records? -No, Your Honor.
[Judy] I'll take a look at your photograph.
[Ja'Quan] How does me saying that I was bitten twice...
These were all taken by me on the day of the assault
and the day following the assault.
No, sir, not bruising. You told the medical people two days later
that you had multiple bite marks all up and down your arms.
That's what you told them. The question is, who inflicted them,
when you told the police two days earlier that you were bitten twice?
-That doesn't require an answer. -Those were the two visible ones. Okay.
Okay. So, nobody was, pardon the expression,
seriously, even close, injured from this domestic spat
over whether or not you could hold the baby.
Let's move on to your property, please.
After she moved out, you went into the house.
Tell me what damage you're alleging she caused in the house.
There was not damage to the home itself, uh, just trash she had left.
[Judy] Okay. So, it required cleaning up.
Clean up, yes.
Okay. And what do you allege she took?
She took all of the child's belongings from the home.
-[Judy] Fine. -Things that I had bought.
So what? They were not given to her, they were given to the child as gifts.
I gifted them to my son.
Next!
-What? -Next!
A couple of my grandmother's blankets and bedding and towels.
You have any of her bedding and towels?
I only accidentally took a blanket.
And I didn't even realize until Mr. Madyun had pointed it out
that it was his grandmother's blanket.
[Judy] Did you return it?
-No, not-- -Why?
-They didn't ask for it back-- -[Judy] Where is it?
It's at the house I'm currently living in.
I asked for things back, and she refused to return them.
She asked for my son's belongings back.
-[Judy] She can't have those. -I know.
Blanket. You want to wrap it up and send it back to her?
-You know where it goes? -Mm-hmm.
All my legal documents with my bank information on it
that she took out of my drawer.
Okay. This happened back in July.
July, August, September, October, November, December.
Six months later. Have you replaced the documents?
That's a yes or a no.
No, I haven't. They're bank documents.
-Do you have his documents? -No, Your Honor.
The documents he speaks of were in a little blue folder,
and that blue folder contained my son's social security,
along with his bank information and his CalKIDs information.
I don't have that.
-[Judy] Where is it? -I don't know.
Are you able to get to that account? Did you go to the bank?
Did you say, I don't have my paperwork?
If somebody, six months ago had my paperwork,
you go to the bank and--
You're missing that I wasn't allowed to go into this address.
I'm just asking you, sir, what you're alleging she has that's yours.
She said she doesn't have it. I'm asking you
whether or not you've replaced it.
She told police she doesn't know where it is,
but she just described what it is.
-...doesn't know what it is. -[Judy] Slick, listen to me.
Listen to me, I asked you a question. The question was a simple one.
The question was, did you replace the bank documents?
I said no.
[Judy] I don't believe you. What's next?
Blanket, you're getting back, your mother's blanket.
What else do you want?
That's it. If I can't get the things back,
the keepsakes that I bought to have in my grandson's room, then--
No, she took them. She's living someplace else.
I suggest you not fight over that,
otherwise... you want to be able to see him.
I'd get a paternity test if I were you, just to be on the safe side.
I need a paternity test?
I'm just telling you. If I had a son, and my son met a girl in June,
and traveled cross country to meet her in June,
and it was mid-June, as a matter of fact, I think it was mid-June
by the time you got there. Yes, mid-June.
And two weeks later, the person who he's just met is pregnant,
and gives birth a month early to what apparently is a full-term baby,
almost six pounds. Would I tell my son to get a paternity test?
You're kidding me, huh. I sure would.
In all probability, this is your baby. I assume it is.
But wouldn't you feel like an idiot if you went through the next 20 years
paying support, struggling over custody, struggling over visitation.
And then, to find out that biologically, he's not yours?
Wouldn't you feel foolish?
It's what I mentioned in the first couple of moments we were in here.
and then I said she made it seem like she was offended by that--
She could be offended, offended,
-She can. -[Judy] Offended, offended.
-But to treat someone a certain way-- -[Judy] This is not offended.
Are you trying to talk over me? Who do you think you are?
I'm just a guy in a courtroom.
This doesn't happen. Uncross your arms.
I'm telling you, and probably your mother told you,
I assume your mother told you.
I'm saying, if I started being abused and started being treated a certain way
after I said these things, I need to check to make sure he's mine.
And she's saying, you're never gonna see your kid
unless you go to court and you get custody and you do this and this.
She's premeditatively kept our son away from me.
That's why you should absolutely, sir... [laughs]
-All right. -[Judy] Absolutely have thought,
before you made a baby with somebody, get to know 'em a little bit.
If what you're saying is true, she had nutty behavior.
And if she smoked marijuana during her pregnancy,
which may have accounted for the baby being born early, maybe not,
but certainly, that's dumb.
You would say, if you smoked marijuana while pregnant, that was dumb, right?
And you would know that's putting your baby at risk, right?
-Yes. -[Judy] You would know that.
That would be really stupid and not in the best interest of the child, right?
-Right? -Yes.
Okie doke. So, I would know all those things, sir,
before I made a baby with somebody. Do you understand?
-Yeah, but I'm in this situation. -[Judy] Before.
-What? -Right, right, right.
She wasn't smoking with a baby before she was pregnant.
What are you suing him for? What do you think he owes you?
Forget the assualt.
-I left some belongings behind. -Like what?
I left a flat-screen TV, about 72 inches.
Where did you get the money for a 72" television set?
-Welfare. -Then I get the television.
Welfare is not to buy a 72" television. What else?
[narrator] Ja'Quan Madyun and Michelle Kerr-Madyun
are accusing Ja'Quan's ex-girlfriend Yezlyn Torres
of biting Ja'Quan and stealing Michelle's keepsake blanket.
Yezlyn claims Ja'Quan is wrongfully keeping her property.
Okay. Let's move on.
Okay, I packed as much as I could within 24 hours, and then I left.
And so, I left some belongings behind.
Like what?
I left a flat-screen TV, about 72 inches.
[Judy] Tell me when you purchased it.
I purchased it in March, shortly after our son was born,
-before I left. -[Judy] In March?
And-- Just a second. During the time that you were living rent-free
-at his mother's house... -Yes.
-[Judy] ...were you collecting welfare? -[Yezlyn] Yes, Your Honor.
[Judy] How much were you contributing to the household?
-I-- -[Judy] Not an "I," that's a number.
How much were you contributing to the household?
About $500 in bills.
And then, I would buy the toiletries and all that.
Okay, $500 in what bills?
I paid the light and gas, as well as the water.
And I paid Miss Kerr, I paid her for the Internet.
-Well, the Internet, you were using. -[Yezlyn] Yes.
You were there using it by yourself.
-Yes, Your Honor. -Right? Uncross your arms.
When you were living with him when you were pregnant,
what expenses did you pay for?
Careful, you're gonna have to prove it to me.
What expenses did you pay for when you were living with him?
When we were living together, neither one of us
were paying bills or anything, we would just--
-So, the answer is-- -She can't speak for me.
Just a second. It's his mother. What were you paying for?
-I was buying whatever. Toilet paper... -[Judy] You could.
And where did you get the money for a 72" television set?
Welfare.
-[Judy] From welfare? -Yes, Your Honor.
-Then I get the television. -[Ja'Quan laughs]
[Judy] Welfare is not to buy a 72" TV.
Welfare is to pay for rent, light, food.
It's not to buy a 72" television. What else?
Seventy-two inch television, forget it.
He's filed false police reports--
[Judy] All right, I'm finished with the two of you.
What part of uncross your arms don't you understand?
It's my comfortable stance.
[Judy] I don't care. My job is to keep you uncomfortable.
Are you due back in court at any other time with her?
Yes, we have a contempt of court hearing the 20th of this month.
Contempt of court against whom?
The mother for denying my visits.
[Judy] Well, let me suggest this to you, Miss Torres,
you make a baby with somebody, do not think that you are the sole parent.
-Mm-hmm. -Thank you.
I'm not going to suggest to you what's gonna happen,
but certainly, he can get a copy of this tape.
And certainly, if I were the judge hearing that custody case,
I'd make you have a drug test.
-Yes. -[Judy] Regularly.
Like randomly, three times a week.
Because if you couldn't stop smoking marijuana while you were pregnant,
-chances are you still are. -I'm not.
[Judy] Great, I'm glad to hear it.
But you no longer have control over whether or not
the child has interaction with his father.
Can I give input on what he's saying?
Because the instance that he's talking about...
I only denied his visits twice.
One time I was in court, so that's why that visit didn't happen.
The second time, he came to our current home
where me and the child are staying, and told my Uber to leave.
I was going to drop him off at the court ordered location
and he told my Uber to leave, causing problems at my home.
So then, he called the police and did the report.
What you probably have to do is set up a pick up and return place
at a local police precinct.
[Yezlyn] I tried that. The judge denied it.
-Why? -I did a ex parte.
And she said that she didn't find cause for emergency,
so we have to wait till there...
You mean he hasn't seen his child in how long?
He sees him every other day.
Oh, okay, fine. When you go back, you may want to both ask the court,
so that he feels comfortable, to order a DNA test.
I'm not gonna get into anything else.
You can tell the judge at that contempt hearing
everything you want to tell them, sir. So, it's your contempt hearing
against her for failing to adhere to the temporary order of visitation.
-Correct. -All things otherwise have been settled.
No.
No. So, you have an ongoing custody case.
Correct.
This is part of the ongoing custody case?
This was included, yes.
There has been no final order?
No.
Okay. Within 72 hours, you pack up his mother's blanket
-and return it to her. Do you understand? -[Yezlyn] Yes.
-In good condition. -Yes, Your Honor.
Same way that you had it. Anything else that she has
that belongs to your mother?
No.
Thank you very much. We're finished.
-[Kevin] This court is adjourned. -Thank you, Judge Judy.
I think I should've at least won something for the abuse I endured
and the belongings that I left behind. But she has the final say, so.
She said I should not have been assaulted for asking to hold our child.
That's what I take from that.
He's definitely the father.
I guess we'll have to find out. I'm pretty sure I'm the father.
But the way she's acting, there's probably another dummy out there.
Unless it's about pick up or drop off, or an emergency regarding our child,
I want no communication. And he gets upset about that.
I'm ready to be a dad. I'm ready to take care of my child
and do what I need. But bitter baby mama's getting in the way
and making that impossible to happen. Make sure you get to know your baby mama.
I liked your explanation in court, because I could tell that the plaintiffs,
the mother and himself, couldn't understand why
so many police officers showed up in the manner that they did.
I think your explanation was great, as in, you have to look at it
from the eyes of the police. This is the information they were given.
Not accepting that as true,
but this is what they believed they were walking into. So--
They could've been walking into.
And a lot of the information was corroborated. They found guns.
He said he was on the phone with them disclosing their location.
If you don't know, as a police officer, what you're walking into,
better safe than sorry, in some ways.
And so, I liked the-- I think they understood,
after you explained that. But I think in the moment,
it can be very heated. You could tell
she was very nervous taking the video.
-[Judy] And angry. -And angry. Rightfully so,
if you're in that position, I understand the anger and nervousness
if 15 police officers show up to your house.
Again, you have to think about it from their perspective
that this is what they've been told by someone you interact with
and have a child with. So, I think they got it.
When playing house, which is what they were doing,
becomes a blood sport...
the only one that gets hurt is the baby.
And you know, Sarah, I've been preaching this for years,
you don't have a baby until you are physically, financially,
and emotionally ready to take on the responsibility of another human being.
You don't do it by accident.
And if you're 30 and 22,
-you know how to prevent getting pregnant. -Mm-hmm.
It just seems to me so monumentally unfair
to an infant.
First he's in California, then he goes to Florida.
Now he's back in California, where he's gotta stay.
-She doesn't have anybody in California. -Mm-hmm.
Just ridiculous. You can ruin three lives
just because you're operating with the wrong organ.
-You should be operating with your brain. -Mm-hmm.
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