but I did not know
that Alexandria was in anything.
He...
>> Judge Judy: Are you...
Listen to me.
There's an allegation of,
probably,
abuse by a male friend of yours
towards your 8-year-old child.
Your 2-year-old child is then
with his father,
and before that allegation
can either be verified
or not,
you tried to bring her back?
>> Yes, because Alex had nothing
to do with that.
That was only my 8-year-old's
situation.
Alex had nothing to do with it.
>> Judge Judy: That has to do
with your...
Alex is the child
you have together?
>> That's right.
>> Judge Judy: This has to do
with your judgment!
Listen to me!
>> Alex was not in that report.
That report had nothing to do
with Alex.
>> Judge Judy: Ms. White,
I want you to follow me.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: That has to do
with your judgment
as a parent
to allow your 8-year-old,
if the allegation
is true, terrible.
If the allegation were not true,
and your 8-year-old
reports that allegation
to her school authority,
then there's something wrong
in your home
to cause your 8-year-old
to make a false allegation.
Do you understand that?
>> I understand.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
So I'm telling you that he would
not be right or normal
or a reasonable parent
to return that 2-year-old
to you before the state
made a judgment.
So you were four days early
because if the state
didn't make a judgment
until the 24th
as to whether or not something
was really wrong in your house,
and you tried to get her back
on the 20th,
I would use every
mechanism available to me,
including a protective order
for your child,
including everything, to ensure
that that child was not
brought back into your home
until that full allegation
was either investigated
and found to be untrue
and then somebody figured out
why your 8-year-old
made it in the first place.
Do we understand each other?
And if a family-court judge
didn't tell you that,
I'm telling you that.
>> Yes, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy:
You understand what I'm saying?
>> I understand.
>> Judge Judy: Did anybody
ever say that to you?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy:
Well, I'm saying it to you.
>> Your Honor, even after
the situation was over,
he still kept her from me.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
That's okay.
Sometimes the city is wrong.
Sometimes Child
Protective Services are wrong.
You have your 8-year-old back?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: You ever have
contact with this male?
>> No, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Is he precluded
from having
any contact with her?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Ever?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Well, then there
must
have been a reason for that.
>> It's because I said so.
>> Judge Judy:
I keep him away from her.
I don't deal with him anymore.
>> Judge Judy: [ Scoffs ]
Do you understand my problem?
>> I understand.
>> Judge Judy:
And if nobody told you that,
then they didn't do you
a service
by not telling you that
because it's really too bad
when an 8-year-old
can't go to her mother and say,
"Something is happening to me,
and I don't like it,"
and has to go to a school
official
and report that something
is happening to her in her home.
So, Ms. White, you have no case
against him.
You ought to thank him
because he was being a father,
stepped up to the plate,
and he was being a father.
Before this allegation,
did he ever give you hard time?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
Let's go back because you know
I'm a good inquisitor.
>> Yes, Your Honor, and I...
>> Judge Judy: Just a second
because I don't think you would
have turned the baby over to him
if he had given you
a bad time with her.
You would have found
somebody else.
Who is this?
>> She's like a mother.
She's a friend.
>> Judge Judy:
She's like a mother,
so you have somebody else who
could take care of a 2-year-old.
You called the father.
>> I...
Originally, I called my mom.
He followed me.
He was driving
around following me to get her.
>> Because...
>> Judge Judy: Just a sec.
If he was doing that,
he was right.
You were not, clearly, based
upon what you just told me,
not being a protective mother.
Mother of an 8-year-old
little girl is supposed to know
what she's doing all the time,
especially when you bring
strange men around the house.
We understand each other?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Perfect.