planning a birthday party
for your 9-year-old, and from
what I'm putting together,
she was at your house,
and the conversation developed
about what you were going to do
for your daughter's birthday,
and you indicated
that you were going
to take her to a concert.
What concert?
>> The Jacob Sartorius concert.
He's the next Justin Bieber,
I guess, to these girls anyway.
>> Judge Judy: Well, tell me
about the conversation that you
had.
>> Well, my daughter actually
was talking about it, and I
wanted to do a surprise for her,
and I looked them up, and I
found out that he was actually
playing on her birthday.
I thought it would be cool.
Nothing was mentioned to the
girls until I spoke with her...
>> That's a lie.
>> ...and I spoke with her about
it --
>> Judge Judy: What did you say
to her, and what did she say
to --
>> I said that the concert was
going to be playing on
Mackenzie's birthday, and if she
wanted to take her girls, and
she really wasn't too interested
because she didn't know what
her finances was going to be
because she had an income tax
check coming.
She said she'd have to let me
know, so I went ahead and
purchased the tickets a couple
days later.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
You went and purchased how many
tickets?
>> Two.
>> Judge Judy: One for you,
and one for your daughter?
>> That is correct.
>> Judge Judy: On February 17th?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Then what
happened?
>> The girls -- They were
excited for Mackenzie.
They kept on asking their mom
if she could let them go, and I
told them that if their mom
says --
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Where did that happen?
>> At my house.
The girls were always at my
house.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, but this
was supposed to be a surprise
for Mackenzie, so if Mackenzie
was talking to the girls about
it, clearly it wasn't
a surprise anymore.
You bought the tickets on the
17th, and then you must have
told her.
>> Well, it was a surprise as
far as she didn't know that I
had purchased the tickets for
sure.
I mentioned it to her if she
would want to go, but I never
told her I purchased the
tickets.
>> Judge Judy: Well, I've had
children.
So I know...
>> I know.
>> Judge Judy: So if you say
to a 9-year-old,
"How would you like to go
to a concert?" and it's somebody
that she's crazy about,
and it's her birthday, and
unless you hate your child --
You don't hate her, do you?
>> No. I love my child.
>> Judge Judy: Then she says,
"That's what I'm doing
for my birthday!
I'm going to the concert!
Oh, that's so exciting!"
So don't tell me that you didn't
tell her,
because unless you hated her,
it would be like saying,
"If you're really hungry,
you can have a hamburger."
"I'm really hungry."
"You can't have the hamburger.
I decided against it."
Do you understand?
>> I understand.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
Very good.
So now you told your daughter
that she was going to the
concert.
Now, where was your daughter
and the defendant's
two daughters
when the discussion came up,
again, after the 17th, when you
had purchased the two tickets?
>> Her kids were always
at my house, but they were not
there when the discussion of me
purchasing the tickets actually
came about.
That was between Mackenzie
and her daughters, that she was
so excited about she was going.
>> Judge Judy: Just a minute.
So your daughter, not in your
presence, spoke to the
defendant's daughters and told
them that she was going to the
concert.
>> Possibly going.
>> Judge Judy: No.
She didn't say "possibly."
No way!
No way did she say "possibly."
No way.
She said, "I'm so excited.
My mom got me tickets to go
to the concert on my birthday!"
That's what she said, and then
the defendant's two daughters
started to pester her and say,
"We want to go. Could we go?
Could we go? Could we go?
Could we go? Please let us go."
That sounds normal.
Right?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Huh?
>> Relentless.
>> Judge Judy: Relentless.
Now I'm going to come to you.
So what did you tell your girls?
>> I let them go because it was
my oldest --
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
What do you mean you let them
go?
The reason you hadn't told her
on the 15th that they could go
was because of finances.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: You said,
"I can't afford those tickets."
>> Right now, at this time,
I cannot afford them.
She purchased the tickets.
As shown in my text messages,
she went ahead and purchased
them on her own before
I wholeheartedly agreed to it.
>> Judge Judy: I don't want
to hear "wholeheartedly."
>> Well, I was in the process
of finding out what it was going
to cost me, what the total
cost --
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
On what date did she purchase
the tickets for you?
>> On March 1st, 4 days --
It was weeks worth of --
>> Judge Judy: No. No.
Ms. Moore.
Then she went back
and purchased additional tickets
because she had gotten your
approval.
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: She did not --
Oh, yes, she did.
>> No. She did not.
>> Judge Judy: Oh, yeah.
Oh. No. No.
>> I have the evidence.
I was asking her how --
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
I would like to see your
evidence that she did not
have -- because she, I'm sure,
has her own -- approval
to buy tickets for your girls.
>> Right here.
>> Judge Judy: I'd like to s