foreign you're torn between the two men standing in court today because the defendant Mr Patton raised you your entire life believing he was your dad yes your honor but now Mr Garcia is suing to prove he is your biological father yes your honor Mr Garcia you say you search for your daughter for more than 25 years and today you say the DNA results will prove to Mr Patton that Ms Ames is your daughter yes your honor the Mr Patton you state that the only a year ago after raising your daughter and paying more than 40
000 in child support you were informed that Mr Garcia was claiming Ms Ames is his daughter yes sir let me start with you Mr Garcia take me back to one year ago and a year ago I was in Jersey visiting my family and I was really looking for her on Facebook wanting to find her so we can reconnect because I always called and asked always asked about her and I was really looking for a heavy we found each other on Facebook last year and we met at my mother's house and reunited and we started talking
from there miss Ames when you got this friend exchange yes what did you feel like I needed some resolution to it um take you back my mother died when I was 13 years old never told me that there was a possibility of another man being my father whatsoever when I was 21 years old another relative of mine decided to tell me Well if there's a possibility that your dad isn't your dad that another man is your father so the name that they gave me I searched for for years I couldn't find them well come to
find out they had gave me the wrong name so when he friend requested I looked at his picture and I felt there's the connection because I looked just like Mr Garcia I look just like his family and so I sent him a friend request and when I did he says do you know who I am and I'm like I've heard that there's a possibility you're my dad and he's like I want to meet you I'm here I'm in New Jersey and so we met I was nine months pregnant what happened at that meeting there was
an instant connection between the two of us instantly and we went out to my mother's graveyard because he didn't know anything of my mother passing because he was so far away and he was supposed to go back to Florida and he stayed an extra two weeks because he wanted to meet my daughter I'm torn like I have two kids and I want my kids to know who their grandparents are my mother's not around like I don't want my kids growing up accidentally dating their family members because we don't know the truth that's there that no
that's a very real concern yes and like my son will be 18 years old and I don't want him to be dating one of his cousins and not know it so I I need some resolution and you've you feel like you're 100 certain you're her father Yes I was there for her at Birth I was when she was born too I used to rock her to sleep in my knees I stayed with her family I stayed with her her family her grandmother I stayed with them for like 10 years working working and taking care of
my responsibility which was her and so you were there at her Earth yes and you've paid child support for her as well yes yes you were responsible for child support for how many years 18. 18 years you paid it yes and you submitted to the court that you've paid your entire child support debt off yes I have the documentation yes I have it right here Johanna I'd like to see that Mr John Patton state of New Jersey paid no open cases more than forty thousand dollars Jerome we don't see this a lot not at all
I commend you for this sir so Mr Garcia while Mr Patton was paying child support and rocking her to sleep and in her life you were believing you were her father this whole time you thought you had a daughter somewhere out there yes your honor from the time she was born I had always believed she was my daughter so Ms Ames did you tell your father the man you believe is your father your whole life that's what you thought Mr Patton did you tell him about the meeting when you met up with Mr Garcia no
no me and my father Mr Patton we've had a rocky relationship we've had our ups and downs he was around and then there's sometimes he wasn't like but I remember when I was younger and we got into an argument and he made a statement to me to go find my my real dad so that statement well maybe there's a reason why he said this to me so when her mother was pregnant take me back to this we had met my prom my sister had introduced us and we started dating she broke up with me not
too long after she got pregnant a month later she told me she was pregnant and she made me believe that Mr Patton was the father instead of me but I had always believed in my heart that I was the father when you said made you believe because the timeline of when she told me she was pregnant was after we were together but after Miss James was born the timeline didn't add up she had given you a certain date or how many months she was or whatever yes and then when Ms Ames was actually born in
your mind you said to yourself what she told me didn't add up this could be my baby that's correct Miss Ames although you said your relationship with Mr Patton wasn't always that great had some rocky moments you grew up always believing he was your biological father is that correct because my mother never told me no different he's the man on my birth certificate he walked he was at my wedding he signed my marriage certificate because he was there no matter how our relationship was he was the man who was there so so you never connected
any dots in your mind and said oh well I don't get along with this man there's a disconnect he may not be my father you truly just believe this is my father we bump heads sometimes but when I need him he's there that's what I believed and as you look at Mr Patton do you see yourself at all just the light skin this that that's it he's tall I'm not that tall but my mom was short so I'm like I never really paid that much attention to it like just the freckled things I used to
ask that when I was a kid where did I get freckles from my mom ain't got no freckles my dad ain't got no freckles how did I get freckles on my face I was a little kid I wanted to know how I got freckles and y'all don't got freckles so Mr Garcia what was it after all these years she's 30 years old now what was this that prompted you to say I'm going to send this friend request yeah before social media when I would call in New Jersey and talk to my family I always was
trying to find her so it's not just started I always had that passion that she was my daughter and I always wanted her to know that and I always wanted to know that for sure myself because I always believed it but on that day that you decided to make the move and and reach out because I was in New Jersey and I wanted to find her while I was there before I went back to Florida so I want to make sure we made a connection and I was on Facebook heavy trying to make connection with
her the whole week I was in New Jersey with my sisters and when you were with your sister were you telling your family I'm gonna try to find my daughter right now yes your honor I told them and I told them when I made connection with her you know and my sister which was uh who she was they who I met her mother through was right there when I found her you know really yes and your sister was the person that was with you when you met Ms Ames mother years ago yes you mentioned earlier
you dated her mom in high school yes did you know anything about Mr Patton because he seems to have been in her life consistently very present and visible yes he was there the whole time he lived right down his cheek from her when we met did you know he was no she said they were broken up at that time but he was always there you know trying to get her back and giving me a hard time all the time so well yes I caught them walking down the street one time I asked what's going on
with you know you and Joe Joey she said nothing we were just friends she just her mother told me you know she would they were just friends but I had to you know it was suspicious that you know that they were dating or whatever but you felt a level of Suspicion yes and you knew what he looked like oh yeah yeah I know I know his family his sisters and so when you think about the fact Miss Ames that another man is here in court today suing to prove that he is in fact your biological
father how does that make you feel your honor I'm torn between the two because I now have a relationship with Mr Garcia as well I've been around his family when we went on vacation to Florida he came and spent the entire week with me and my husband and my daughter and I I have a connection with him as well even not knowing him for as long as I haven't known him there was an instant connection between us so you see that he truly is making an effort yes and his his ex told me that he
had told her that he had a daughter in New Jersey and Dad my mom told him I wasn't his but he always felt I was his daughter in this last year after meeting Mr Garcia who have you been calling dad is Mr Patton still your dad or do you believe they're borrowing they're both my dad but I'll work on building a relationship with Mr Garcia because if he is my dad we need that that relationship my kids need that relationship but my kids will always know Mr Patton as they Grandpa as well it that's just
the way it'll be period you talk about Mr Patton in your relationship and sometimes it was Rocky and then with Mr Garcia you say you felt this instant connection is that feeling that emotion that connection you felt is that what's driving you or is it truly other factors and everything combined are you feeling pulled because of the emotion of it all I feel like I'm torn in between because deep down inside I just I need to know I need the answers and I can't speculate on what my parents did 30 years ago because this is
something they should have figured out 30 years ago yes period you are most certainly correct I can't I can't say what they did and what they didn't do because I was a child but I felt this is something that they should have handled then there's no reason why somebody should have been telling me at 21 years old well your dad may not be your dad I need to know for my children yes Mr Patton as you stand here hearing the testimony that's been presented today are you still 100 certain yes your honor you are yes
Mr Garcia As you stood here today hearing how this man has spent his life taking care of this young girl child support paid at her wedding with her family at her birth on her birth certificate are you still 100 certain yes I am because if I would have known I would have been there two men are in this courtroom today 100 convinced they are your biological father yes your honor I think it's time for the results Jerome yes these results were prepared by DNA Diagnostics and they read as follows [Music] in the case of Garcia
Ames versus Patton pertaining to whether Mr Garcia or Mr Patton is the biological father of tanira Ames it has been determined by this court her biological father is mister Garcia [Music] are you okay Miss Ames you happy to finally know yes I'm still her father and I'm always [Applause] my thing I I want him to walk out of my life be because of these results I don't think you have that to worry about at all would you like to go down and give your dads a hug you got two [Applause] let me forget it my
dad [Applause] you can feel free to stand Mr Garcia nicely done sir when I told her she could stay down there she stood in between the both of you because she loves both of you and when she stood in the center you moved from your position and slid over to the center with her and that body language and that movement says I know why you're standing there and I will meet you halfway feel free to slide on into because you still have your daughter go stand next to her she needs that the truth is something
else Mr Lloyd you are in court today to prove that you are the biological father of the defendant's one and a half-year-old daughter Courtney Marie Grimes you claim the defendant LED you to believe that you were the father only to have a bomb dropped on you that another man was her dad is that correct yes your honor Miss Riley you say you are 100 sure that Mr Lloyd is not Courtney's biological father and you will prove your case in court today is that correct yes your honor well we'll meet that other man in just a
moment but first let's start from the beginning I want to understand the nature of this relationship so you you were in a relationship with somebody else when you met Mr Lloyd or were you in a relationship with Mr Lloyd and met somebody else I had just recently got out of relationship when I had met Mr Lloyd of course I was ending my last relationship with Miss with the other party all right so then you had finished the other relationship or you were still kind of seeing this other guy we had like just Andy it wasn't
even though a month apart or a week apart that me and him had ended and we had started getting intimate right there all right so Mr Lloyd at the time you were dating Miss Raley did you feel like you were all were in an exclusive relationship at the time I didn't you know as if as a prolonged I did start catching feelings for her actually we moved together afterwards you did we moved in so you moved in together yes when she told you she's pregnant she comes to you and says what exactly we was actually
sitting in her room actually we was talking she started crying said she was pregnant I was excited this is my first child so I was excited and I was willing to take up the responsibility to being Courtney Grimes life I already had doubts I knew of this guy you know so I already had doubts about it so the third month I take her her mom out to eat and we we just nipped it in the blood like this your baby it's like was she like three four months pregnant do you remember this dinner meeting Miss
Riley yes yes and you all cleared the Aaron told Mr Lloyd there's no doubt you are the father yes your honor so why is it all of a sudden three months two months before the baby's born you tell him he's not the father well your honor I was nine weeks pregnant when I thought that I was pregnant that's when the doctor and everything started I said well nine weeks ago so I wasn't with Mr Lloyd at all I was with Mr Grimes it was around Super Bowl which was in February the second is the day
that they trying to say I was conceiving between the second and I believe the sixth and I wasn't around Mr Lloyd at the time that they had gave me my Stephen date excuse me we was dating around the Super Bowl too you know we was date so how far along into the pregnancy did she tell you that you're not the father it was like like the last four months but the seven eight months I left I said I'm done with it it's not my baby I moved to Indiana I just stayed down there for like
a month two I get a phone call and she like I have doubts I don't I don't think Courtney I think the baby was even born actually she was like um I don't see it in Curtis a mother knows her her baby and mother knows that she told me that's what made me come back and try to continue on to be there for my daughter so when the baby was born Miss Raley who was present um Mr Grimes was oh because oh excuse me she didn't even tell me that he was present when he was
born she for my knowledge was nobody there but the mother he didn't need to be there if he's not the dad so that's why Mr Grimes but what the the dots I'm trying to connect are when you told him he was the father he accepted he was the father but you say that this window between Mr Grimes and Mr Lloyd is only a span of two to three weeks anyway right three weeks three weeks or four yeah three to four weeks I didn't even know the baby got born I had to find out off of
Facebook old was Courtney when you first met her did you did you ever get to see her um yes I think I seen her thing like that the second or third week she was at the hospital she let me see Courtney Grimes whenever I wanted to she'll give him his chance and still give me my chance too but wait you she gave the baby Mr Grimes last name yes yeah she gave him his last name actually I'm the one who gave up with the name Courtney Marie actually Mr Grimes came up with the name so
wait and you sleeping with two different guys but they both picked the same name how after that song it they both said Courtney that's what we think is a good name yeah way too much Synergy here actually I think she did already had she already had the baby me and Curtis Grimes had came to a conclusion and actually met up on Facebook and was trying to find out because she was still playing that it was my baby still playing his baby so we met up actually we drove they pulled up on me I was saying
okay so both of them asked me in the car together they in the car together I'm with another friend who's the daddy chanting so I said okay Curtis you responded and Mr Lloyd is the one who will be there for her you know and at the time that's what the situation so wait a minute the two potential fathers get together you all get together y'all gonna do a sting operation correct you all gonna track down Miss Rayleigh yeah and you all gonna get down to the bottom of which one of us is this five because
you feel like she's playing both of you and you say Miss Riley you were clear you said I described you basically you said you the biological father and you told Mr Lloyd but you are basically the daddy because we say in this courtroom it takes DNA to be a father but it takes love to be a daddy so you say Mr Lloyd stepped up to be the dead he'd be there for 40 no matter what he's always there he's a good dancer so now you're here because you want Mr Lloyd to know for certain that
he's not the biological father correct Aaron we hear we're here to find out cause she don't know 100 that's why we're here all right Jerome I want to talk to uh Mr Grimes he's joining us from his hometown Mr Grimes do you believe she's your biological child I'm gonna say yes then I got some doubts too though at the same time so you have doubts tell the court why you have doubts she said been pregnant she been playing both sides one minute Corey today next minute I'm the daddy Cory about to spend some money on
the baby heater daddy like we both still seeing it to this day you know so you both still seeing her we both still seeing Courtney I mean he he go he been to Memphis more than me I've been to Memphis one time he been down there three four times but shantia not telling me that so you saying this is supposedly your biological child with your last name but this other man has been to see the child more than you man I'm tough off I got my whole family calling me like why is it another man
with your daughter on this page tell my daddy's back like I said I got doubts I mean she she looked like she looked like him she little she got my nose she looked like both of us you asked me but that's what I said [Applause] I get on my nerves who's paying child support to help support this baby neither one I can't pay child support if I'm not owning birth certificate let me tell you you can still you don't have to pay taxes never come out of pocket when I when I want to support is
it can be of course done through the state but it also can just be done personally between the parents I mean I tell people handle it through the living room so you don't have to handle it through the courtroom so have you helped with this child yes you have Mr Grimes she has your last name have you been helping to support Courtney since she's been born [Music] When Corey Mr Lloyd got out of her life I told her give me blood I'll give her baby love basically I'm tired of her playing both sides I got
six other kids that got to worry about she's not finna keep playing with this kid if Courtney mines Courtney makes seven how old are you Manor Grimes 23. we just had a baby we just had a baby together that's the eighth one uh no no no no no no now you all know this how many kids you have Mr Lloyd this will be my first child you know what I'm saying um I actually I actually I actually went and begged for my job back so I can't support my daughter this would be your first child
so this matters to you yes sure but miss Rayleigh is has maintained consistently throughout this hearing that you are not Courtney's biological father but that still does not sway you because you feel like you are it doesn't sway me because I was already persuade of that that was my baby after after Courtney was born did you call him back Miss Railey and say the baby doesn't look like said that she doesn't look like him because I see it all the way oh she got pretty hair that's my baby I said wait now don't say I
got no hair I got some good oh my God hold on oh wait wait wait I'm not I can't let you say something that ignorant uh uh-uh no no no no no no no no we can't say that we can't say that nappy hair no we're not even gonna say that because the truth is as a as a people honestly you gotta take that out your vocabulary we can go one level deeper the reason why this courtroom exists is to help ensure that children don't have to go without their father so this ain't no joke
to me so don't come in here with no racial nonsense talking about babies hair because every piece of that child is beautiful and innocent [Music] and and whether her hair is fine or coarse or whatever it is it is individually and uniquely hers given to her by God and he don't make mistakes so we're gonna correct that right now I don't want to ever hear you say that again um your honor I say something I hope it's intelligent it is um it gives me the reason that she is mine my mom tell me when I
was little when she used to change my diaper just do this diaper dance I used to be excited Courtney does the same thing when you change her diaper um I have a birthmark on my life on my left side of my forehead as well as Courtney that gave me a strong doubt that it is mine so you feel like you listen you feel like you have now for eight little girl and you look at her and you feel like there are similarities that confirm your belief that she's yours yes this would be your first child
yeah sure so this matters to you yes sure so miss Railey you're saying you are certain that Mr Grimes is her biological father Yes or are you saying that you have an a younger child together as well so you just believe yes your honor I don't know I'll be back for that one too to be honest with you and it's my first time hearing that one also you have a doubt about the subsequent child as well as well yes ma'am and that's what makes me upset about this whole situation because they be trying to play
me like I'm just this bad person this bad mother in this bad just bad and I'm not I had conversation way before I even turned seven months that he's not the father I never told him that he wasn't the father at all and to hear him say this in court today he would never ever speak to me again unless it's about our children and that's it it's no more going back and forth because I have been going back and forth with these two for too long and it's time for it to end either I'm gonna
be one of them or neither one of them and I want it to come out today because I'm done with it absolutely done I just want the truth to keep your legs closed you won't go through this if you keep your penis in your pants you won't have this problem either Lord Lord right but that's why I'm well listen DNA would tell it all listen listen everybody in here has a part to play in this because none of you protected yourselves y'all running around here having too many babies like you baby Factory I mean Detroit
is a factory town but this is not the type he's a factor of his own self hold on I'm from Detroit I'm serious I'm serious Jerome I'm ready for the result let's get the answer to this because we got to figure out how we gonna move forward amen yeah 25 25 23. so Mr Lloyd I just want to know from you if this is your biological child do you want to have a relationship with Ms Rayleigh if if Courtney was mine I'm gonna go down there and be a full-time parent with my daughter and support
her through the whole nine yards and if she is not they're not going with my life the results were prepared by DNA Diagnostics and they read as follows in the case of Lloyd versus Rayleigh pertaining to whether Mr Grimes or Mr Lloyd is the father of one year old Courtney Rayleigh Grimes it has been determined by this court the biological father is Mr Lloyd happy for y'all congratulations but you're done I knew it from the start you done bro
