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00:00They broke the television.
00:01They always break stuff in my house.
00:04You left them alone in the house.
00:06We just went to the store.
00:07I don't care where you went.
00:09My son didn't break this TV.
00:11I don't care whether he broke the TV or not.
00:14You can't leave three little boys home alone.
00:17Ever.
00:18This is Judy Justice.
00:38Because Shayla Bennett is suing her former friend, Kyra Gates,
00:44for the cost of a TV resulting from a video game accident.
00:49Four come to order.
00:50All rise.
00:53Have a seat, please.
00:56Judge Cage, 40-46.
00:57Bennett versus Gates.
00:59You're welcome.
01:00All right, this is what the case is about.
01:01These are your children.
01:02According to your complaint, one of the defendant's children,
01:06while playing with yours, broke a television in your house.
01:11Yes.
01:12And let me understand this.
01:15You have one child.
01:17Yes.
01:17This boy.
01:18Yes.
01:19Who's nine.
01:21Yes.
01:21And you have two boys who are eight.
01:23Eleven and eight.
01:25You ladies have been friends for a very long time,
01:27according to what I read in the complaint.
01:30Miss Bennett, Miss Gates brought her two boys to your home for a play date.
01:35And you two ladies were going to go shopping.
01:38Yes.
01:39When was that?
01:40May the 2nd.
01:41Of this year?
01:42Yes.
01:42What time?
01:43It was like an afternoon.
01:45We met up earlier.
01:46It was my brother's birthday, and they had a barbecue, so we was over their house earlier.
01:51And the kids wanted to play more, and we was leaving, so we was going to take the party to
01:57my house.
01:57So we went to go get some more stuff to take the party to my house, and we left them
02:02in the house planned.
02:03You left them in your house?
02:05Yes.
02:06The three boys?
02:07Yes.
02:08Who else was there?
02:09Nobody.
02:09You can't do that.
02:11We just went to the store.
02:12I don't care where you went.
02:14You can't do that.
02:15Of course, this is what happened.
02:17You went.
02:17There was a new game that your son had.
02:20One of the boys, you allege, didn't know how to work the goggles.
02:24No, no, no, no.
02:25They know how to work the goggles.
02:26Whatever, one of the boys evidently did not know what he was doing.
02:30One of her boys, this is what you claim.
02:32And because he didn't know what he was doing, the goggles came off, something came off, and he broke the
02:37television.
02:38They played this game several times.
02:40I don't care where they played the games a hundred times.
02:42You can't leave three little boys home alone and expect anybody, especially not me, to hold, cross your hands,
02:49to hold anybody responsible for any damage.
02:53You can't leave a nine-year-old home alone with an eight-year-old.
02:56Just so that I know, it's the eight-year-old that you claim didn't know what he was doing, or
03:01the 11-year-old?
03:02It's the eight-year-old.
03:03The eight-year-old, right.
03:04Well, somebody should have been supervising him.
03:06We were supposed to supervise him.
03:08We left the 11-year-old in charge.
03:10You can't leave an 11-year-old in charge of two eight-year-olds.
03:14Curse of all, Your Honor, she is.
03:16That's ridiculous.
03:18What?
03:19She's claimed for me in the past that she had.
03:20Just a second.
03:21Does it look like you're losing?
03:24No?
03:24Well, you are losing to this extent that you had young children, and you left three young boys, and they're
03:30little boys.
03:32In a house, is this an apartment or a private house?
03:35It's a private house.
03:36Is there a stove?
03:38Yes, of course, there's a stove in the house.
03:40There are other electrical items in the house?
03:43Of course there are.
03:44There are things that could be trouble.
03:46There could be a fire.
03:49There could be something.
03:50You can't leave three little boys alone.
03:53What were you thinking about leaving your son alone?
03:56Well, we just went up the street.
03:58They know not to touch the stove, so...
04:00They know not to do all these things, but they didn't know how not to break your television?
04:04Is that what you're saying?
04:06They know everything else.
04:07Do you think this would have happened if you were home, watching them?
04:11Yes.
04:12If it happened, then you would have been responsible.
04:14If you would have seen something that said to you, he doesn't know what he's doing, he's being careless, then
04:20that's on you.
04:21They do know what to do.
04:22They played the game several times.
04:25They know the rules of the game, and they know where to play at.
04:29Stop that.
04:30They've been playing this game since Christmas, so it ain't like it was the first time that they played and
04:35they didn't know.
04:36Miss Bennett, what I'm telling you is I would never, ever reward parents who left their children home unsupervised with
04:49anything in a court for this kind of negligence.
04:52I would never.
04:53Do you know how long it takes something to happen?
04:56Do you know how long it takes an eight-year-old to bite into something and start choking?
05:01And who's supposed to take care of that?
05:03A nine-year-old?
05:04Who's supposed to take care of that?
05:06That takes a second.
05:07The same second as it takes you to go shopping.
05:10That's why parents of young children should not leave their children alone and unattended, ever.
05:15You know, you let them play outside when they're eight or nine years old.
05:18You let them go with their friends.
05:20But to leave them alone in a house and then expect the other parent to be responsible?
05:24If something gets broken, an ashtray gets broken, a bowl gets broken, a glass gets broken, one of them goes
05:32into a liquor cabinet and decides, oh, we're going to try this.
05:35Because, you know, we're not supposed to do this, but nobody's home.
05:39How long have you been leaving your children home alone?
05:42It was just that one time.
05:44We just went up the street.
05:45So you've never done it before?
05:47No.
05:48And why have you never done it before, left your children alone?
05:52We always had a winner.
05:53I always find a babysitter for mine whenever I want to go out and hang.
05:57Well, I want to explain something to you.
05:58You left your children home alone this time on May 2nd.
06:03You left your children home alone.
06:05I'm not saying you did anything right.
06:07I'm saying I'm not rewarding her because she was complicit in leaving the kids alone and they broke something.
06:12I was under the impression that she had cameras in the inside.
06:16She was also, also had told me that.
06:18Had cameras in the inside of her home.
06:21So this is the reason why I don't, I feel as though my son didn't break this TV.
06:25I don't care whether he broke the TV or not.
06:27I actually don't care whether he broke the TV or not.
06:30If she hadn't said with you, let's go to the store, and your son came into the house uninvited and
06:38broke it,
06:39well, I could say, well, then you're responsible for his actions.
06:42But the two of you went off and left three little boys in the house.
06:45You think I'm going to get involved in rewarding one of you because something got broken?
06:50Deal with it.
06:50But they always break stuff in my house.
06:53And?
06:54Yours do too.
06:55Shh.
06:55Just a second.
06:56And?
06:56My son never broke nothing in her house.
06:59Just a second.
06:59Did you say her son's always breaks?
07:01Yes.
07:02Just, so why did you leave them home alone?
07:07Something is definitely wrong with you.
07:10You're being sued, and you have a judge who just told her she doesn't have a case.
07:15Why would you have anything to say at all?
07:19And later today.
07:20You agreed that she would get a puppy from the litter.
07:23You didn't give her the puppy from the litter because you say that her son damaged your car.
07:29That's the case.
07:30Am I wrong about that?
07:32Partially.
07:42Because Shyla Bennett claims her former friend, Kyra Gates, owes for the cost of a TV after Kyra's son hit
07:50the TV with a game controller.
07:53They always break something in your house, like what?
07:58Give me an example.
07:59Well, I was home this time.
08:01Oh, just tell me.
08:02My son said they broke the TV.
08:03No, no, not your son.
08:04I mean, his tablet.
08:06They broke no tablet.
08:07I don't want to hear you unless I'm talking to you.
08:11Do you understand?
08:12Don't talk over me.
08:14I don't want to hear you unless I'm talking to you.
08:17Don't interrupt.
08:18I'm having a question and answer with her, not with you.
08:22So they broke his tablet.
08:25So you know, just listen to me.
08:28No, you never told me that.
08:29You just brought this up today.
08:30Something is definitely wrong with you.
08:32You're being sued and you have a judge who just told her she doesn't have a case.
08:38Why would you have anything to say at all?
08:41It's just that you can't control yourself.
08:45If her sons, one or both of them, broke his tablet.
08:49I didn't know they broke the tablet after that the TV was broke.
08:53Because I went to go see the tablet.
08:55Miss Bennett, you said a moment ago, they break things all the time.
09:01Just a second.
09:02Could you read that back to me?
09:05I said, but they always break stuff in my house.
09:08Okay.
09:08So is now what you're saying that they always break things in your house,
09:13but you didn't know about it until after they broke the television?
09:17Certainly.
09:18Well, what things did you know that they broke?
09:21Just for my own information.
09:24Before you left them alone in the house, while you were there, what did they break?
09:29Okay.
09:29One of them broke the chair.
09:32A chair?
09:32Yes.
09:33Okay.
09:33And when that child, whichever one, broke the chair, what happened?
09:38Well, this was on my wedding.
09:40And she know that because she was in my wedding.
09:42And you were supervising them?
09:43No.
09:44We had a babysitter.
09:45Great.
09:46You had a sitter who was supposed to be supervising them.
09:49Yes.
09:49Did she pay you for the chair?
09:51No.
09:51Just a second.
09:52She didn't pay you for the chair because children were at your house as invited guests.
09:58What else was broken by them?
10:00I'm just curious.
10:00Seven-year-old.
10:01He pulled, you know, the back seat of the car.
10:04He snatched the thing off of it.
10:07It's like the back seat of your driver's side.
10:10You put mail and stuff in?
10:11Yes.
10:12I told her that he broke that too.
10:13And who was with him in the car?
10:16We was.
10:16So you were supervising him?
10:18Yes.
10:19Didn't supervise him adequately.
10:21What else was broken?
10:22That's it.
10:23So now you know that there was a history, and yet you still left three little boys in your
10:32house, unsupervised.
10:34And last year, you had a babysitter, according to you.
10:38You had a sitter.
10:39Yes.
10:39Right?
10:40Why didn't you get a sitter when you wanted to go out to the store?
10:43My house is a block, and the corner store is right there.
10:47Don't you understand?
10:47It doesn't make any difference when you went to the corner store.
10:51We didn't have a sitter at that point in time.
10:53We went to go get them stuff.
10:55Just a second.
10:55I'm not going to belabor this anymore.
10:57Both of you didn't have to go to the store.
11:00If you were going to buy food, both of you didn't have to go.
11:03One of you says, and probably you, I'll give you my share of the money.
11:09You go to the store.
11:10Or she says to you, I'll give you my share of the money for what we're going to buy at
11:13the corner store.
11:14I'll stay home with the boys.
11:16You decided to go together.
11:17That was the point, because we didn't have the share that we could give each other.
11:20I'm not giving her my credit card to go buy anything.
11:23And she didn't give me her credit card to go buy anything.
11:26Then you could have gone individually.
11:27It's right at the corner.
11:29You take your credit card.
11:30You go to the store.
11:32You buy what you want with your credit card.
11:34Ten minutes later, you come back, and you say, I'm here now.
11:36And you go with your credit card and pick up the rest of the stuff that we need on your
11:40credit card.
11:41You don't have to be a genius to figure this out.
11:43You just wanted to go to keep each other company and leave the boys home alone.
11:47I don't know how long they were home alone.
11:49I have no idea.
11:50In any event, I'm not rewarding bad conduct with money.
11:53Your case is dismissed.
11:54This court is adjourned.
12:00I'm glad what the judgment of how it was, because it shouldn't have been here in the first place.
12:04She should be accountable of what her kid do regardless.
12:07Did my son really break it, or was this TV already broken?
12:10He was the only one in there playing the game.
12:13So he's the only one broke the TV.
12:14Husband can always come around and be around.
12:17I'll try to punish the mother for she can know to have more control of your kids,
12:21and have your kids to have more, you know, training when they go to other people's houses.
12:27My parents loved me dearly.
12:29But they thought that I was more grown up, I guess, or maybe they just weren't thinking.
12:35And they were thinking people.
12:36But I remember when I was 10, they left me alone in charge of my five-year-old brother and
12:46went away for a weekend.
12:48Late one night, I thought I heard someone breaking into the house.
12:51And I remember I got so frightened, I grabbed my brother and took the phone that was in the hall
12:57and called the police.
12:59And the police showed up, and they said, where are your parents?
13:02And I said, they're in the Catskills for the weekend.
13:06They called my grandmother.
13:08And they said, your grandchildren are home alone at 10 and 5.
13:13If you don't come and take them, we're taking them into protective custody.
13:18Oh, my God.
13:19And I remember she had such an argument with my mother.
13:23They, of course, came back early from their vacation.
13:27Different time.
13:28Maybe it was a different time when you didn't worry about bad things happening.
13:32But you hear so many horrendous stories about a fire.
13:37Yeah.
13:38Things that happen very quickly.
13:40A short, a child getting sick, having an episode.
13:42And there was absolutely no reason for these two women to go alone with each other to the store.
13:48There are all kinds of options other than to leave three little boys home alone.
13:54It could have been a lot worse than just a broken TV.
13:56For sure.
13:58Case 4064, Privet versus Armour Hines.
14:01All parties, please come forward.
14:03Latresa Privet is suing her neighbors, Catrice Armour and Tyron Hines, for the value of a puppy, filing a false
14:12CBS report and harassment.
14:15All right, I'm going to break this case down to its most basic components.
14:19Your neighbors?
14:20Yes.
14:21You each have a dog.
14:23Yes.
14:23What kind of dog do you have?
14:25A red-nosed pit bull.
14:26You have a pit bull.
14:27Mm-hmm.
14:27And what kind of dog do you have?
14:29I have a blue-nosed pit bull.
14:30So you both have the same breed of dogs. And as neighbors, you decided to let the dogs mate and
14:37had an agreement that once the dog had puppies, you have the female dog, that the plaintiff would get a
14:44puppy out of the breeding.
14:45So far correct?
14:47Yes.
14:47Yes.
14:48No.
14:49What do you mean no?
14:50Because we didn't make an agreement with mating the dogs. The dogs just so happened to mate.
14:53Listen, was your dog on a leash?
14:55Yes.
14:56Was your dog on a leash?
14:57Yes, my dog was on a leash.
14:58Okay. And you watched them mate?
15:00Wait, just a second.
15:01You watched them mate?
15:03Yes.
15:04I read it in the papers. They didn't mate in a goldfish bowl. You were walking them. And then you
15:09had a discussion. And in your discussion, you agreed that she would get a puppy. Let's just keep this simple.
15:15Is that correct?
15:16You say it was correct in your answer.
15:18Your defense is that you want her to fix a car, right?
15:23Right.
15:24Okay. Well, that doesn't negate the fact that you agreed that she would get a puppy from the litter. You
15:30didn't give her the puppy from the litter because you say that her son damaged your car. That's the case.
15:37Am I wrong about that?
15:39Partially.
15:39Well, tell me where I'm wrong.
15:41She wasn't walking the dog. It was another gentleman that was walking the dog.
15:43Who cares?
15:44Okay. Well, then that's what the difference is.
15:45Who cares? Listen, if you can't sit up and figure out where you are, you can leave.
15:49I got to school. You also come and sit like this.
15:51Goodbye. Goodbye.
15:53This way, sir.
15:54Out.
15:56Nice. Does that person belong to you?
15:58I'm going to sit down.
15:59How does he belong to you?
16:00He's a neighbor that lives next to us.
16:02Oh, well. You brought him here on purpose?
16:04He saw the gentleman fighting on my vehicle.
16:07Yeah. Well, he's got to know where he is.
16:09I understand.
16:10Right? You understand?
16:10I understand.
16:11Yeah. Smart aleck.
16:12Yeah, honor. Can I say something?
16:14Not yet.
16:14Okay.
16:15I'm going to keep this case to its basic component.
16:17The dog had puppies and you sold them?
16:20Some of them, yes.
16:21How many did you sell?
16:22One.
16:22How many were in the litter?
16:24Four.
16:24Where are the rest?
16:25I gave two of them away and I kept one.
16:28And when were these puppies whelped?
16:30They was born July 7th.
16:32Of this year?
16:32Yes.
16:33Okay.
16:34Now, the reason you didn't give her a puppy,
16:37according to your answer and counterclaim,
16:38was that her son was in some sort of a kerfuffle with somebody
16:42and during the course of that kerfuffle,
16:45pushed somebody into your car and your car was damaged.
16:48Correct.
16:49Okay. Stand up.
16:50You're the son.
16:51Yes.
16:52Move over there.
16:54Tell me your first name.
16:56Ezra.
16:56Ezra.
16:57When was this fight?
17:00What inspired you after being neighbors for four years,
17:05after you had an argument with her over money,
17:08with the taillight,
17:09what inspired you after four years to call CPS?
17:23Latricia Privet claims her neighbors,
17:26Catrice Armour and Tyron Hines broke their dog breeding agreements.
17:31Catrice and Tyron are countersuing for property damage and harassment.
17:36Ezra, when was this fight?
17:38July 6th, I think.
17:407-6, so it was a day before the delivery of the puppies.
17:44Yes.
17:44And who were you fighting with?
17:46Another adult.
17:47Who?
17:48I'm not sure of his name.
17:49Well, what'd you get into a fight with him about?
17:51We had to exchange your words and it led to the LSU.
17:54Slower, so I can hear you.
17:55We had to exchange your words and it led to an altercation.
17:58About what?
17:59He was being disrespectful to me.
18:00So how did the altercation play out?
18:02He just backed up to her car, he hit the car, and it broke her taillight.
18:06And you have no idea who this person is?
18:08I do.
18:09You do?
18:10Well, if you would like to share that, that's fine.
18:12Otherwise, you pay for the taillight.
18:14Right?
18:14Yes.
18:15Well, she didn't have a fight with anybody, right?
18:18Yes.
18:18Well, so if you want to share that, if you say it wasn't me that broke the taillight,
18:23it was this other person, they don't know who it is, sue them.
18:26But right now, you're going to pay for the taillight.
18:28That's easy.
18:29How much was the taillight?
18:30$500.
18:31Show me, because that's the counterclaim, for the most part.
18:34The rest of it is nonsense.
18:43$465.
18:44Okay.
18:45Now, when you sold the one puppy, now you can sit.
18:50When you sold the one puppy, how much did you get for it?
18:52$400.
18:53Now you have one puppy left.
18:55What are you doing with it?
18:55It's my puppy.
18:57If it's your puppy, if I say it's your puppy, that's what we're here for.
19:01It's the puppy that I kept out the litter for my home.
19:04I don't care.
19:05Well, you asked me.
19:06I said, right now, where is the puppy?
19:08The puppy is with you.
19:09Correct.
19:09That's what she wants.
19:10She wants her puppy, all the money for the puppy.
19:13You want your taillight fixed, right?
19:15Correct.
19:16And it's practically an even swap.
19:19Puppy, taillight, right?
19:21Right.
19:22Right.
19:22That makes my life very, very easy.
19:25Plaintiff's judgment, it would be $400.
19:27If she sold the puppy for $400, that's what you get.
19:30You want another puppy, go out and buy another puppy.
19:32Her taillight was $465, which means that on the counterclaim so far, we have $65 on your
19:38side.
19:39The rest of this claim is filing a false CPS report.
19:43Right.
19:44Okay.
19:44When did you file a CPS report?
19:47I don't know.
19:48Date?
19:48Honestly, I don't have a date.
19:50After the puppy was born and after the taillight?
19:54Yes.
19:54And how long have the two of you been neighbors?
19:56Four years.
19:57And this is the first time you filed a CPS report?
20:01Yes.
20:01Well, what inspired you after being neighbors for four years, after you had an argument
20:08with her over money, with the taillight, what inspired you after four years to call CPS?
20:14Her putting her child out was this year.
20:16It was the beginning of the year.
20:18Just a second.
20:19At the beginning of the year.
20:20This year?
20:20That would be January or February.
20:22For March or something like that.
20:23January, February.
20:24We're talking about July.
20:26What was the delay in calling CPS?
20:30As months went on, things were escalating downstairs in her home.
20:34It literally sounded like they'd be down there wrestling, slamming each other around, and
20:37someone's getting hurt.
20:39So as time was going by, this was escalating.
20:41You mean it was escalating, but it just got to a point after the two of you had an argument
20:46after four years to call CPS?
20:49I'm just kidding.
20:49I'm just kidding.
20:50No, I understand.
20:51You understand the motivation and the timing doesn't look good.
20:55Well, then things started escalating, and then also on November 2nd, just this November
20:592nd, the cops went to her home at 12 o'clock in the afternoon.
21:03She was trying to put her child out with no clothes on, and you couldn't even call the
21:06police because I couldn't get a report.
21:08So this is what...
21:09What I'm just telling you is the optics of it is that four years as neighbors, you have
21:15some sort of a disagreement about your taillight and her puppy, and then you call CPS.
21:21So it doesn't look good.
21:22However, however, she's allowed to do that unless you have some indication that there's never
21:30been any difficulty in your home, and it was solely motivated by this aggravation over taillight
21:37and puppy.
21:37With the police at your house on November 2nd, very easy to figure out.
21:42Police was at my house on November 2nd.
21:43I have a...
21:44I don't care.
21:45Don't give me the reason.
21:46Oh, okay.
21:46You have...
21:46Police were at your house on November 2nd.
21:49Right.
21:49Was this the first time in the last four years that they've been at your house?
21:53No.
21:53Careful.
21:54No.
21:54No.
21:55So they've come to your house before.
21:57Right.
21:57How many times have they come to your house before?
22:00Probably like three, four times.
22:01I have to tell you, I'm 82 years old.
22:04Police never came to my house.
22:06I have kids, grandkids.
22:08Police never came to my house.
22:10So if you think that that's a natural occurrence, it's not.
22:13So the part of your lawsuit that has to do with a false CPS report is dismissed.
22:17Wait, Yana, can I say something?
22:18You can say whatever you like.
22:20That portion of your complaint that says she called CPS, she acknowledges she called them
22:28and she says that there are things that are going on in that apartment that don't sound right.
22:32Now, her motivation for calling them may be entirely dark, but she clearly had the basis to call them
22:40because, according to you, the police have come to your house multiple times in the past because of incidents.
22:46But it wasn't because of my children.
22:49Who knows?
22:49Who cares?
22:50Your children live in your house with you.
22:51Right.
22:52It's not up for grabs, madam.
22:54All right.
22:54Now, according to your counterclaim, she caused you to be evicted from your house.
23:01She caused me to get an eviction letter.
23:03Yes.
23:04And that was because, according to you, she said that you walk your dogs sometimes unleashed.
23:10Correct.
23:11Be careful.
23:12Did you ever do that?
23:13Yes.
23:14So that part of your counterclaim is dismissed.
23:16You can't walk your dogs without a leash.
23:18They have to be on a leash at all times.
23:23Now, on the counterclaim, I'm awarding you $65.
23:27$400 you get for the puppy.
23:29$465 was the taillight.
23:30The difference in that is $65.
23:32And that's my judgment.
23:33Goodbye.
23:34Have a happy life.
23:35This court is adjourned.
23:42Her son broke my leg.
23:43I was going to give her the dog.
23:44When she didn't want to pay me, I was going to sell the dog for the place of the light.
23:47I'm okay with it.
23:48I just wanted to basically get the money for my dog, and that was it.
23:52But she's just been making my life a living hell.
23:54I even got videos of her harassing us, but unfortunately, the videos didn't come apart about because I said I
23:59walked my dog without a leash.
24:01But how am I harassing her?
24:02Like, really?
24:03I'm harassing you?
24:04No, I'm not harassing you.
24:05Time for a restraining order.
24:06No, I'm not even restraining.
24:08I'm just moving.
24:10I actually don't understand two people walking their dogs together, and both of these dogs had not been neutered.
24:16Defendant's dog is in here, so you take your dog and walk away.
24:21Well, maybe we'll have puppies.
24:23Not well thought out.
24:24No, and really very unfair to the puppies who she kept one, sold one.
24:30Well, she couldn't take care of two.
24:31She gave them to her brother.
24:32Who knows what he's doing?
24:33Dog breeding is not a hobby.
24:35No, it shouldn't be.
24:35Dog breeding is a perfection that should be regulated.
24:39Pick up knitting.
24:40Pick up crochet.
24:41There are other things you could do with your time.
24:45Are you having a family dispute?
24:47Go to JudyJustice.tv
24:50And let's go.
25:18PIP that's all.
25:19PIP that's all.
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