I have been listening to some of the craziest mess I have
ever heard in my life today.
Mom, talk to me.
What is going on here?
EVONNE: What's going on, from my perspective,
is that I feel that my girls have been raped by their father
and they haven't that difficult time
of really knowing the truth.
Who do you believe was raped?
Whitney and Nichole.
- You believe that? - Yes.
So how did you come to that understanding?
When Nichole was two and three years old,
she would go stand by the bath--
by the [INAUDIBLE] and scream and holler
and use the bathroom on herself.
And when Whitney was three years old,
she would hide up under the bed when it was time
for him to get off from work.
I missed paying attention to what was going on with her
because we were married.
But after the domestic violence that I
endured, when I moved out and move to my own apartment--
IYANLA: So you left him. EVONNE: Yes, ma'am.
Why-- why?
Was it because you--
It was because he beat me down, drug me across the road,
and strangled me.
After that incident, during that year,
he had called and said he wanted to get the girls.
However, when he came by to get them,
he said he just wanted Whitney.
And nevertheless, I told him, make
sure you bring her back because they have to go
to a vocational Bible study.
And of course he was late.
But when Whitney came in, I wanted to get her
dressed and ready.
And then when I pulled her panties down, there was blood.
And when I saw the blood I just--
I instantly picked up the phone and dialed
911 said their father--
he had Whitney and she was there back at my house
with blood in her panties.
And so, what happened then?
EVONNE: Police came and got him, and arrested him,
and we all went down.
So everybody had to be examined.
IYANLA (VOICEOVER): Your memory may not be
your best witness to the truth.
IYANLA: When I start hearing stuff so crazy--
you know, like, the young people say,
I had to go look up the receipts.
Some of them from just public records.
The other medical reports that I have here,
do not conclude it was rape or molestation.
Did you know that?
Mm-mm.
IYANLA: We have one document that it was indicated that what
was originally reported to be blood in her panties
was actually Popsicle stains.
Mm-hmm.
IYANLA: Did you know about that?
Yeah.
IYANLA: If it was Popsicle stains,
what was the conclusive evidence that this man
sexually molested his children?
When I pulled her panties down, I saw blood
and I took her to the hospital.
And a lady came in to examine her and she took the panties.
When we made it back to court, they were similar,
they were brand new, and they had
Kool-Aid in the seat of them.
I think it was switched.
Hm.
Then I have a complaint taken out by you against Darcy
Moselle Hughes that--
"Intentionally caused bodily injury to the child
or has sexually abused the children--"
Read that line right there.
"--by sleeping in the bed with a child and asking
her to open her legs."
That would have been Whitney.
IYANLA: But then, help me understand this.
I have here--
"To grant custody of Britney to the plaintiff, her father."
Yes, ma'am.
So if I'm to understand this--
in one year, you get a protection order
because the man is sleeping in the bed with the children
and asking them to open their legs.
And then, 10 years later, you send her to live with him?
I just really need to understand how it is that you've got three
girls that you believe were sexually
molested by their father, and you let
them go spend time with him.
EVONNE: They wanted to spend time with their dad
because they felt like I was keeping him from them.
They wanted to go stay with the man that molested them?
Then that was something that I didn't want.
They were teenagers and I felt like that they
could protect themselves.