You may be seated.
Hello, Your Honor.
Hello.
This is the case of Bouman versus Bouman.
Thank you, Jerome. Good day, everyone.
AUDIENCE: Good day.
Ms. Bouman, you've dragged your daughter
Kalena to court to save your relationship.
You admit after years of deception and confusion,
you now must prove to her that her
actual biological father is Mr. James Stewart
who passed away 18 years ago,
is that correct?
ANGELA: Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: Ms. Kalena Bouman,
you say your mother's paternity lies
have jeopardized your relationship
and you don't believe her latest claim
that Mr. Stewart is your father.
Yes, Your Honor.
Mr. Stewart,
you say there's no way that your deceased father
is Ms. Bouman's biological father
and want to clear his name in court today,
is that correct?
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: So Ms. Bouman...
Yes, Your Honor.
Why are these results so important for you today?
Over the years, I have, uh, lied to my daughter
and for the past four years,
it's become very hard on our relationship.
I used to be real close to her
and, now, it feels like I've literally
tore it completely apart.
And I need to prove to her that her father
is James Stewart and is deceased.
You say over the years, you've lied to her.
I've told her that another...
Uh, Mr. Watson was her father.
JUDGE LAKE: Explain.
ANGELA: It all started■ when she was little.
When I was...
When I first met Mr. Stewart,
I was...
Met him at a company that I worked with
and we started working, became friends
and everything, real close.
Then we became sexual.
It got to where I found out there was somebody else.
I decided to break apart from him
and move to another job.
I needed to get away from him.
Uh, so I started talking to Mr. Watson
then I found out after being with him for a while
that I was pregnant.
And I told Mr. Watson
that there was a possibility that it wasn't
and at the time, it didn't matter to him.
At first, he was like, "Okay.
"Whatever. You know, yeah, it's not mine.
"Yeah, it is mine."
And it's... It kind of ran like that.
Ms. Bouman.
KALENA: Yes, Your Honor?
So, you're having a difficult time
having a relationship with your mother?
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: Explain to me
the nature of that relationship.
It's been hard because of the simple fact,
I don't know when she's lying
or telling the truth anymore
when it comes to my life.
And so, she told you another man
was your biological father.
KALENA: Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: And you believed all these years Mr. Watson
was your biological father?
Yes, Your Honor.
So, when did you find out that he was not?
I found out at... During the summer
going into high school
that he was not my father,
while I was forced to be taken out of my mother's house
and go to his house where I had no contact with my mother.
And then, when I finally was able to go back
around to my mother, she told me that it...
He might not be my father
and that James Stewart might be my father.
JUDGE LAKE: Take me back■ to that day, what happened?
That day, I was taken from my mother's house
by Mr. Watson
and was not able to contact her
for two months,
or get on social media, or anything
to have contact with her, my boyfriend.
JUDGE LAKE: Really?
KALENA: And then when I was
able to go back around that day,
she was like, "Oh, he might not be your father
"and it's a possibility that James Stewart
"is your father.
"And we're gonna go downtown
"to take to court."
And I was confused because all these years,
you told me that Mr. Watson was my father.
KALENA: And then when we wen to go take the test,
when the test results finally came back,
after two weeks,
I was nervous and didn't know what to think.
And I read the results even though she told me not to.
And when I read them, it said that Mr. Watson
wasn't my father.
And I broke down,
and I was just hurt,
why did she lie to me for 16 years.
And I didn't know what to do
so I stopped talking to her for a month and a half.
JUDGE LAKE: So, Ms. Bouman, take me back to that day.
Your daughter was crushed.
I mean, she says it just broke her.
ANGELA: At the time,
Kalena had just came over to my house.
She had just moved in with me.
And I happen to go to work one day,
and Mr. Watson had recently got married.
And his wife, she told him,
"That's your child, you go get them."
So, he literally walked up in my house
and, yes, he did come in there and take her.
I wasn't there.
He told me, "Well, since you wanna sit up here
"and say this ain't my daughter, prove it."
I turned around, and I went downtown,
and I requested a paternity test.
The results came back,
and I sat there and I told her.
I said, "you know, I didn't do this to hurt you."
And so, is it your assertion that you knew
all of the time there was a question
or you knew for certain Mr. Watson wasn't?
I didn't know for sure but when I sat there
and started calculating back the time
of when I was messing with Mr. Stewart,
it was always connecting back to Mr. Stewart.
I just can't trust her because she lied.
JUDGE LAKE: So, what you're saying is,
is you don't even believe this assertion
is based upon any real evidence or fact.
You think she's just naming someone else.
Yes, Your Honor.
It's still the simple fact that she lied
for so many years,
so who knows if there's another man
or if it's just them two.
Your whole foundation has just been rocked?
KALENA: Yes.
You don't know what to believe?
Pretty much.
JUDGE LAKE: Mr. Stewart?
Yes, Your Honor.
When you heard about Ms. Bouman,
did you believe that you all shared
a biological father?
No, Your Honor.
You didn't?
No, I didn't.
Explain.
My father has had numerous women
say that their children was his
and just came to find out that it wasn't true.
And just...
This right here.
What is this, sir?
Timeline.
JUDGE LAKE: Walk me through it.
Back when I was eight.
JUDGE LAKE: Mm-hmm.
He was working at the sub shop with her.
JUDGE LAKE: Okay.
JAMES: And...
I remember him working there because I distinctly
remember getting my ears pierced at eight years old.
JUDGE LAKE: And that was in 19...
JAMES: '93.
JUDGE LAKE: '93.
JAMES: And I remember him
around in the middle of '93 close to '94
leaving the sub shop and not working there...
And does...
And he doesn't work there anymore
as of around 1994?
JAMES: No.
Close to '94, yeah.
JUDGE LAKE: And in 1995
is when Ms. Bouman's mom
would have been pregnant with Ms. Bouman.
JAMES: Yes, ma'am.. Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: And Ms. Bouman?
ANGELA: Yes, Your Honor.
You claimed in your testimony
that you were working with Mr. Stewart's father
at this place when Kalena was conceived,
am I correct?
ANGELA: Yes.
JUDGE LAKE: So, your assertion, Mr. Stewart,
is that, that doesn't add up.
Doesn't add up to me. It really doesn't.
Because your father quit this job in 1994.
Yeah. Early '94.
ANGELA: That's actually a lie
because he actually stopped working
at that restaurant in february of '95.
He would come in, do his shift or whatever.
Then there was times that he wouldn't come in.
Because he was a manager, he had me...
I was right up on him as the assistant manager.
JUDGE LAKE: Hmm. Ms. Bouman,
I see you brought a witness. I'd like to hear from her.
Ma'am, would you please stand
and step to the podium, please?
Okay. Give me a minute, please.
JUDGE LAKE: Okay.
Please state your name for the record, ma'am.
I'm Lillian Jane Watson.
JUDGE LAKE: Thank you for joining us today.
You are Mr. Watson's mother.
Mm-hmm.
JUDGE LAKE: Did you ever have doubts
that your son was Kalena's father?
LILLIAN: No.
Never? Explain.
Well, her mother left a letter saying that,
uh, my son was the father.
She had other three kids, so I told her
she didn't have to worry about my granddaughter.
I'll do everything that is possible for her and I did.
Kay has been living with me most of her entire life.
JUDGE LAKE: Really?
LILLIAN: When she would go to her mother, she would stay.
I'll pick her up every weekend.
If there's a grandmother who deserve award,
it should be me, but I don't want an award.
I'm here because I love her.
She's my baby.
(APPLAUSE)
She put her letter in my mailbox
with a piece of paper saying that James Stewart
was not her father.
JUDGE LAKE: Really?
Yeah.
JUDGE LAKE: Let me see that evidence.
I got a long letter about how my son,
Kalena, her features...
You're saying that Ms. Bouman put a letter in your mailbox.
LILLIAN: That's... Yes, ma'am.
And Kay was born in January.
She gave me the letter in February.
JUDGE LAKE: This is a letter from February 27th, 1996.
LILLIAN: Mm-hmm.
It reads,
"Ms. Bouman, your results
"of the paternity test
"performed on 01/11/96
"on Kalena Bouman and Mr. James Stewart
"shows that Mr. Stewart is not the biological father
"of your child, Kalena, born on 01/06/96."
Did you put this letter
in Ms. Watson's mailbox, Ms. Bouman?
Yes, I did.
JAMES: Well...
LILLIAN: And a letter, too.
And I did it...
I did it because at the time,
Mr. Watson,
when I got back into a relationship with him,
we sat there, we talked and everything.
It was all discussed out.
But, wait, what do you mean it was discussed?
ANGELA: It was discussed that Kalena was his daughter.
JUDGE LAKE: So, you just created this?
This letter is just a lie?
ANGELA: Yes, ma'am.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)
LILLIAN: Wait a minute.
JAMES: I don't understand...
(STAMMERING) That's not, uh...
She's saying in court today, ma'am,
Ms. Watson, that this is not an official letter.
This is something that she just wrote
and typed up.
I've never had a test done with James Stewart.
LILLIAN: My God, my God.
(SOBBING) You know, you have messed this kid's life.
Oh, Jesus.
JAMES: That's why I said I don't believe it
because he's had... And he's had three other women that did this.
LILLIAN: And Ernest is always gonna be your dad.
He hurting just like you are.
You can't talk around him. He gets very emotional.
He loves you.
There's not a day we don't talk about you.
JUDGE LAKE: So, Ms. Bouman,
you know, I have to come back to you
because you've basically just admitted in court today
that this was fabricated,
this letter that you basically
typed up and put in this woman's mailbox.
Why?
ANGELA: I did it
because I was actually in love with Mr. Watson
and it was, "I wanted a child,
"this is my child."
And I lost contact with Mr. Stewart,
so I left it alone.
The truth is,
you wanted to be with Mr. Watson.
ANGELA: Yes.
You loved him.
So, you wanted him to think
that Kalena was his child
so that you could hold on to him.
Yes.
You cannot
use a child to keep a man.
It doesn't work.
It never works.
(APPLAUSE)
JUDGE LAKE: And sure enough,
as it has happened over and over again,
Mr. Watson moves on.
(SIGHS)
Ms. Bouman, did Mr. Stewart ever know of Kalena?
Did you talk to him about...
I ran into Mr. Stewart back in '98
at a convenience store
right up the street from where I lived.
And it kind of shocked me. I was surprised to see him and he was like,
"Well, I heard you had a little girl of two years.
"She's two years old,"
And I said, "Yes, I do."
At the time, Kalena was with me.
So, he was like, "Do you mind if I see her?"
I said, "Sure." I took him down to my house
because I stayed right down the street from the store.
He sat there, and he looked at her, and he was like,
"Wow. Hmm, okay."
He said, "I'm gonna go home and make some phone calls."
I said, "Phone calls for what?"
"Oh, I'm about to set up a... I want a paternity test.
"I want a DNA test.
"You ain't gonna worry about nothing.
"I'll pay for the whole entire thing
"because if that's my daughter,
"everybody's gonna know about her."
He went home. He made the appointments.
He called me. He said, "This is the day
"we gonna go do it."
The day came
that we were supposed to go and do it,
and I got a phone call
from one of his friends,
and they said, "Angie, I got some bad news,"
I was like, "What?"
He said, "Pookie is not coming."
I was like, "What do you mean?"
"Pookie is killed. He was murdered."
After that, everything just dropped.
I left it alone.
So, you're saying the very day that you all planned to go
and get the DNA test...
He was murdered.
LILLIAN: My God.
He was murdered.
JAMES: I don't believe you. I don't believe you
because I lived with my daddy that year.
I was 13 years old.
I was 13, my father told me everything.
I ain't had a sibling for 28 years...
Twenty-nine years. My baby brother got killed when he was two.
I didn't have no sibling.
So, I would've wanted a sibling all my life.
My father would've told me that.
ANGELA: He didn't wanna bring her out
until the test was completely done.
JAMES: He wouldn't hide nothing from me.
My father told me everything.
That's why I don't... I can't believe it
because there's so many women that had did this,
and then... And said that their kids was mine,
and I had to grow up without a sibling.
That hurts.
You don't believe the fact that Ms. Bouman
saying that he just didn't wanna say anything
to anybody until he knew for sure.
I don't believe that, Your Honor.
And you don't even believe the test was scheduled.
I don't believe it.
I don't believe it, my father would've told me everything.
All right. I've heard enough testimony.
It's time for the results.
Jerome?
These results were prepared by DNA Diagnostics
and they read as follows.
Because there wasn't a blood card available to test the DNA
of the deceased,
James Stewart,
we performed a sibling test
in order to determine
if the deceased's son,
James Stewart, is related to Kalena Bouman.
My father would've told me that.
In the case of Bouman versus Bouman,
it has been determined by this court
that James Stewart
and Kalena Bouman...
Are related.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
LILLIAN: Oh, my, that's your brother.
(SOBBING)
You've got a brother.
(CRYING)
JAMES: It's over now, baby.
It's over.
It's over.
Oh, man.
LILLIAN: And since that's my granddaughter's,
you are her brother,
then you can be my son, too.
Thank you.
(JUDGE LAKE CHUCKLES)
Thank you.
Feel free to stand with your grandchildren.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
Because I don't have a grandparent at all.
Oh, well, honey...
At all.
All my grandparents are gone.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
JUDGE LAKE: Oh, yes.
LILLIAN: Angie, get over here.
Oh.
LILLIAN: I love you all.
I can't hate nobody, lord Jesus.
Thank you for finally telling the truth.
(APPLAUSE)
LILLIAN: Oh, thank you, Jesus.
Just don't lie again.
Ms. Bouman, what would you like to say to your daughter?
(WEAKLY) I'm sorry that I did this
and put you through this,
and I hope that you can forgive me
and we can start rebuilding our friend...
Friendship back
because I miss my, baby.
I love you so much.
(APPLAUSE)
JUDGE LAKE: Kalena, we haven't had a chance
to hear from you,
but it looks like you're very happy to have your brother.
KALENA: Yes, yes.
And, unfortunately, your biological father
is deceased.
But it's a beautiful thing that you will have
your brother to be able to tell you
all about him.
And, ma'am, I have to say to you,
you spoke so beautifully...
LILLIAN: Thank you.
...About...
Just what it means to love a child.
We have counseling and resources for you.
Please take advantage of it.
I wish you all the very best of luck.
Court is adjourned.
KALENA: Thank you.
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