of his being smitten with you
in exchange for whatever,
that's something
that's for a whole other show.
I'm telling you that I don't
believe
that he ever sold you and
bartered the Jeep with you.
Otherwise you would have gotten
the title when you paid it off.
Now, you did take money
from him, for what?
>> Um, for payment.
>> Judge Judy: Now just
a second.
You said you ran short
on your rent.
That's what you started
to tell me.
>> I did.
>> Judge Judy: You ran short
on your rent.
And that happened in February.
>> I've been short
on my rent several times.
My heat has actually
been shut off because
he was not paying my wages.
>> Judge Judy: Get another job!
>> I actually end up --
ended up getting another job.
And then he took
the Jeep two days before.
I ended up getting fired
from the job
before I was even able to start.
>> Judge Judy: If you weren't
getting paid December, January,
part of February,
why did you keep
working for him?
>> Because if I --
I knew that if I stopped working
for him, he was going
to take the Jeep --
>> Judge Judy: Take the car.
>> I had no way to get
my daughter to the hospital.
>> Judge Judy: He was going
to take the car
because that was
your arrangement.
You could use the car
as long as you picked up
his daughter from school
and dropped her off at school.
>> Judge Judy: Go ahead.
>> Ma'am, she lives
a block from the school.
That's how I met her.
I saw her walkin' her little boy
to school to pick her
daughter...
Her daughter's
in my daughter's class.
And the babysitter
I had smoked nonstop all day.
And I didn't want
my daughter over there.
So I was lookin'
for a babysitter.
And I seen her
walkin' to school.
And I thought, well, you know,
"She needs a car.
I'll let her use my car.
She'll --"
>> Judge Judy: Well, you don't
say, "She needs a car."
You didn't know that until
you started to talk to her.
>> Right. Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Okay,
so you started to talk to her.
And?
>> And I told her, I said,
"Hey, I have a Jeep.
You could use it,
do whatever you want to with it,
I'll insure it,
I'll get plates on it,
in exchange
for watching my daughter
one hour in the mornin'
and an hour and a half
to two hours in the afternoon."
Every other week, ma'am,
for 9 1/2 weeks.
She didn't watch her every week.
I have split custody
with my ex-wife.
I have my daughter one week,
my wife --
ex-wife has her the other week.
So it wasn't a --
all that, it was half of that.
>> Judge Judy: Ahh, I see.
You left that out.
>> I apologize for leaving
that out.
>> Judge Judy: Yeah,
you should have put that in.
Okay, so it was half the time.
So it was a period of nine
weeks?
>> Yes, ma'am. Every other week,
so four to five weeks
is all she watched her, total.
And like I say,
an hour in the morning, and I --
I do visits in the after--
>> Judge Judy: That's fine.
>> Oh, okay.
>> Judge Judy: I got it.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
Now I want you
to tell me about the money.
>> Okay. She watched my daughter
for a total of one week
to start with
before she started comin'
up short on rent and needin' it.
So the first time she said,
"I'm 200 bucks short."
So I said, "Well, Jamie,
I can lend it to you, you know."
So I did.
I -- I had it in my pocket.
>> Judge Judy: Did --
did you know -- did you know
what kind of work she did?
>> She don't work.
>> Judge Judy: Well,
how does she support herself?
>> I have no idea, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: How do you
support yourself?
>> I was working for him.
>> Judge Judy: No.
>> Before that,
I was a bartender.
>> Judge Judy: A bartender for
whom and during what period?
>> Um, I was a bartender
from the time I got to Colorado,
which was in June of 2015,
until October of 2015,
when my car broke down.
I worked in Colorado Springs.
I live in Pueblo.
It's about a 40-mile drive.
>> Judge Judy: Okay,
so you worked for three months?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And where did you
live before that?
>> Washington state.
>> Judge Judy: And what did you
do there?
>> I was a bartender
there as well.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
How much money
in total did you give her?
>> Six hundred dollars, ma'am.
That's the loan
that I loaned her.
I gave her money all the time.
Whatever she needed,
I gave it to her.
>> Judge Judy: Like what?
>> Well, she --
her coffeepot broke down.
I bought her a coffeepot.
Her DVD player --
I gave her 20 bucks
on two occasions.
>> Judge Judy: We're not talking
about earth-shattering amounts
of money.
DVD player you
bought her, or you gave her?
>> I bought it for her.
>> Judge Judy: A new one?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> And a new coffeepot.
>> Judge Judy: And what else?
>> I bought her a necklace.
I bought her shoes.
I bought her --
Anything she asked for,
I got it for her.
>> Judge Judy: Well,
Mr. Richardson,
it sounds to me like you
were more interested in her.
>> Ma'am, she told me
the first week
that there was gonna be
no relationship
between me and her.
And I was cool with that.
>> Judge Judy: That's what
she says.
>> I just needed a babysitter.
>> Judge Judy: Well, then, uh,
why'd you buy her
a necklace for?
>> Well, 'cause she --
>> Judge Judy: The rent
I understand.
>> I mean, she's watchin'
my daughter.
And the kids need to watch --
I mean, I don't know -- I just,
I bought it for her.
She asked for it.
I got it for her.
>> Judge Judy: That
Ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
All right.
Tell me about the money.
>> Okay, the first --
Like I say, ma'am,
the first week
She hadn't watched
my daughter one week,
and she was short on rent.
So I lent her 200
the first time.
Everything was cool
for another month.
Then she's gonna get evicted
the next day, or the landlord's
coming over in an hour
and a half to throw her out.
So I told her, I said, "Jamie,
I don't have that money
in the bank."
I says,
"I have some in my backyard,
saved.
I'll go get it for you."
And I did.
I got it -- 400 bucks for her
and gave it to her.
And she never has paid me
nothin' back.
>> Judge Judy: Do me a favor,
Mr. Richardson.
Change the place
where you keep your money.
>> Well, I had it... Okay, yeah.
It's safe where I keep it.
>> Judge Judy: Not anymore.
Used to be safe.
It's not safe anymore.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: All right?
Be smart.