Situationship Resulted In Baby (Full Episode) | Paternity Court

Please be seated. Hello, Your Honor. Hello.

This is the case of Calhoun v. Proutt. Thank you, Jerome.

Good day, everyone. AUDIENCE: Good day. Mr Calhoun, you say the defendant tried to trick you into believing you are her daughter Amiyah's biological father.

But after uncovering evidence that she slept with other men you are positive the DNA will prove you are not. Is that correct? Yes, Your Honor.

JUDGE LAKE: Ms. Proutt, you claim that you are positive that Mr Calhoun is Amiyah's father. And the only reason he is denying her is because you put him on child support.

Is that correct? Yes, Your Honor. Mr Calhoun, you say Ms.

Proutt is pinning this child on you? CALHOUN: Yes, Your Honor. Why?

Me and Ms. Proutt have been friends for a while, but when I seen that she wanted to make a relationship out of things, I cut her off. And I just kind of pushed away from her And.

. . How did you cut her off?

I stopped calling, stopped answering her calls and texts. Pretty much ignored her existence. (AUDIENCE GASPING) JUDGE LAKE: Because she wanted to get serious?

Because she wanted to get serious, yes, ma'am. So, you wanted to get serious with him, Ms. Proutt?

Yes, Your Honor. I did. But he didn't make me understand that's not what he wanted.

But we continued to have sex and I was cool with that. We were still messin' around, I was still going back and forth to his house and we continued to have unprotected sex. (AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING) Oh.

All right. So you did really cut her off. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) That part.

It was like situationship. It really wasn't relationship. It was just.

. . That's cute.

Situationship? All right, we've heard that one before. CALHOUN: Yes, ma'am.

So, Ms. Proutt, you still continued to have sex with him after he made it clear he didn't want to be in a relationship. Correct, Your Honor.

I did. JUDGE LAKE: And at some point you found out you're pregnant. Yes, ma'am.

Me and a family member of his, we went to the store. I bought a pregnancy test, went back to his house, took the test. It was positive.

The lines were fainted. Um, the next day I told him and showed him the test but we were both in disbelief. CALHOUN: That's not true, Your Honor.

We were both in disbelief, Your Honor, that I was pregnant. He said he didn't believe me but he wanted a DNA test. So, somewhere in there you believed that I was pregnant.

Because you wanted a DNA test. JUDGE LAKE: So he asked for a DNA test? PROUTT: Yes, ma'am, he did.

Do you remember asking for a DNA test? Eh, I asked for a DNA test but not when she's saying I did, Your Honor. JUDGE LAKE: Well, when did you ask for it?

After I found out that she said she was pregnant I blocked her on all social media and everything 'cause I thought she was crazy. She called me and said that she had some fertility medicine. .

. PROUTT: I'm crazy? .

. . to get pregnant by me and she got exactly what she wanted out of me.

(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING) That's a bunch of bull. JUDGE LAKE: Oh. Did you say that, Ms.

Proutt? PROUTT: No, Your Honor. That was not what was said.

I did not take any fertility pills once I found that I was pregnant. Let me tell you how crazy it is. CALHOUN: Now who's got amnesia?

This is the crazy part. I did not believe I was pregnant. I went to about four or five different emergency rooms and they all confirmed I was pregnant.

I was still in disbelief, went to three clinics. They said I was pregnant. I am still in disbelief.

This is about September. By that time I am 12 to 14 weeks, and I conceived between July 21st and July 25th. Mind you, me and Mr Calhoun had sex July 24th, twice, unprotected.

CALHOUN: Excuse me, Your Honor. It took a. .

. And that's the calendar you submitted to the court. PROUTT: Yes, ma'am.

Let's talk about that. CALHOUN: Mmm. JUDGE LAKE: So.

. . The red indicates the day you were intimate with Mr Calhoun twice.

. . PROUTT: Unprotected.

JUDGE LAKE: Unprotected, and the yellow indicates the window of conception. So as you can see the day you said you had sex with Mr Calhoun falls directly in the window of conception. Yes, Your Honor.

And that's why you believe he is the father of your child. Yes, Your Honor. When you look at that window of conception, Mr Calhoun, do you have any, um, issue with the dates?

CALHOUN: Yes, ma'am. Yes, Your Honor. JUDGE LAKE: You don't believe you were intimate on the.

. . Oh, there's no issue with the dates but I'm sayin' I feel I.

. . I have reason to believe that she was intimate with other dudes besides me during those days.

Really? JUDGE LAKE: How do you have reason to believe that? I have reason to believe that after a conversation that me and Ms.

Proutt had on the phone, she told me that she was having sex with a dude all the way up until the day of July 24th. AUDIENCE: Oh. JUDGE LAKE: Oh.

(PROUTT CHUCKLES) Are you smiling because that's true, Ms. Proutt? That's not true, Your Honor.

What's true is I was having sex with someone but this was way before these two weeks. It was two weeks prior. I had stopped messing with somebody else because I knew I was going to run into him at the parties.

JUDGE LAKE: So. . .

At the end of the day, he's really denying my baby because he on child support. Period. Point.

That's it. CALHOUN: It has no deal with child support, Your Honor. Back and forth.

One minute, "I am the daddy. I am happy. "Whoop-de-woo, blam.

" Then the next minute, "I am not the daddy when you get here with them papers. " That's how it goes. Your Honor, I rec.

. . Your Honor, I received the child support papers.

I received the child support paper three weeks after her daughter was born. PROUTT: Yeah. CALHOUN: All right.

You're on the birth certificate. CALHOUN: Yes, ma'am. How did you get on the birth certificate?

I got on the birth certificate because when I. . .

Upon getting a call from Kia, remember I never had any contact with Kia for the whole nine months she was pregnant. JUDGE LAKE: So you didn't have any contact. All right.

No contact. No contact. I get a call from Kia on the day her water is broke and she's sayin'.

. . PROUTT: No.

You did not get a call from me. "You have a daughter being born. "Do you want to come up here and see your daughter being born?

" Me, I came to the hospital just to see if she was pregnant. (PROUTT LAUGHING) I never believed that she was pregnant. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) And she's lying there.

The baby's in the nursery. And she's doing her paperwork. She says, "I'm doing this paperwork.

Do you wanna. . .

"Do you wanna sign it for your daughter? " I said, "I don't know if this is my daughter. I want a DNA test.

" She tells me, "Oh, the hospital doesn't provide DNA test. "We have to get our own. " Which I found out is a total lie because I asked the nurse and she said, "Miss Prout refused the DNA test.

" (AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING) JUDGE LAKE: So, wait a minute. Wait a minute. So, how did you end up signing the birth certificate?

CALHOUN: Oh, okay, Your Honor. So we're in there by ourselves. I told her I didn't want to sign without a DNA test.

So she basically makes me feel like a bad guy. Like, "You know you had unprotected sex with me. "You know that's your daughter.

" I even looked at the papers. . .

I even looked at the papers and see like. . .

She didn't even have my last name as the daughter's last name. I had to tell her like, "If this is my daughter, you want me to sign, put my name on it. " I put my last name on my baby's birth certificate.

That's my baby. So I gave her my last name. You said you wanted a DNA test, okay.

Why. . .

Why put your name on here if you haven't got your DNA test? 'Cause you coerced me. Made me sign the papers.

PROUTT: So, yeah. And so, you felt like you were coerced, Mr Calhoun. CALHOUN: Yes, Your Honor.

But you say you signed that birth certificate, even having doubts. Yes. Yes, Your Honor.

JUDGE LAKE: At the moment you signed it you still had doubts. Tell me what those doubts were? CALHOUN: My doubts come from.

. . I'm walking to the store.

I get to the store. I run into two neighborhood partners that I knew growing up and they like, "You got a baby by Ms. Proutt?

" And I'm like, "Yeah, supposedly. "She says her little girl is mine. " And they tell me, "That's crazy because "she said she had a baby by me before and when I asked her.

. . " What?

"When I asked her to produce the paperwork and produce "the birth. . .

The pregnancy test, it was non-producible. " That's a lie, Your Honor. So, I felt.

. . Non-producible?

CALHOUN: Yes, ma'am, like, she couldn't produce it. Like, she couldn't produce it. CALHOUN: She wouldn't.

. . JUDGE LAKE: That's a word.

What's your next doubt? CALHOUN: Can I continue? Oh, please.

And my second doubt, Your Honor, is the situation with Facebook. May I elaborate? JUDGE LAKE: Please.

This is barely three weeks after she's born. And it's brung to my attention, "Hey, there's some guy next to your baby's picture "and there're comments up on it. "Everybody's saying, 'Hey, this is.

. . "'This is his baby.

'" So I called Ms. Proutt and I was like, "Ms. Proutt, "why are you telling these people that this is the father, "when we just talked on the phone last night and you told me "I am Amiyah's father, that this dude is nothing to her?

" She tells me, she says, "You are the stupid one that signed the papers, "I told you that wasn't your daughter. " JUDGE LAKE: Oh, really? Do you have evidence of that conversation?

CALHOUN: I have evidence, Your Honor. Oh, you do? Yes, ma'am.

Jerome, hand me that evidence. (AUDIENCE CLAPPING) (AUDIENCE CLAPPING) Here you go. You trying this case, ain't you, Mr Calhoun?

Yes, Your Honor. You're trying this case. I know that's right.

So you brought some evidence. From Mr Calhoun. (JUDGE LAKE READING) From Kia, Ms.

Proutt. (JUDGE LAKE READING) (AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING) I posted it, Your Honor. Yeah.

JUDGE LAKE: "You a dumb. . .

" Blank. PROUTT: Yeah, I posted it. CALHOUN: And the only thing.

. . JUDGE LAKE: But now, you're standing here saying, "You're the father.

I don't know why you're denying it. " I know why he denying it. That.

(AUDIENCE CLAPPING) PROUTT: Yeah, I know. Now, Ms. Proutt, you're in court.

I wanna say this. You're in court. So let's just understand that we're here to tell the truth.

Were there any other men? No, Your Honor. There was not.

You don't believe that, Mr Calhoun? CALHOUN: No, Your Honor. I do not.

'Cause the way she. . .

All right. Well, this court has identified a witness and they have something to say. Jerome, will you please escort the witness into the courtroom?

JEROME: Yeah. CALHOUN: Mmm. In the stand, right next to the Judge.

Okay. (CHUCKLES) Watch your step going up. Thank you.

Thank you so much for joining us. State your name for the court. Demetria Dawson.

Ms. Dawson, you are what relationship to Ms. Proutt?

Godsister. You're her godsister? Yes, ma'am.

And you have information as to what the relationship was between Ms. Proutt and Mr Calhoun? That's correct.

Yes, Your Honor. JUDGE LAKE: Please explain to the court. My godsister was having unprotected sex with another man.

(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING) Um, also before he came into the picture, myself and also other members felt that my godsister was already pregnant. AUDIENCE: Oh! Because of her demeanor.

DAWSON: Her mood. . .

JUDGE LAKE: Oh. What do you mean? DAWSON: Her mood changed.

She was very moody. So, when he did come into the picture they had unprotected sex, of course. A week later she took a pregnancy test.

That's not enough time to consider him a possibility. JUDGE LAKE: Hmm. DAWSON: So, my opinion, he is not the father.

So, you were there when this all transpired? Correct. Before she met Mr Calhoun and reconnected with him.

DAWSON: Yes, Your Honor. JUDGE LAKE: Now she admits to the court that she had been dating another man before him but she said she stopped sleeping with that man two, three weeks before she ever met Mr Calhoun. You say that's not true?

No, Your Honor. I know it was an ongoing thing. And so, Ms.

Proutt, you look guilty. (PROUTT CHUCKLES) (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) I mean, Your Honor, I love my godsister but. .

. But you was not. .

. You wasn't there. You know, you can't just say.

. . I mean, I respect her opinion or whatever but she can't just say who I was sleeping with and what I was doing.

How do you respect somebody's opinion that's supposedly a lie about you? I'm just saying. If that's how she feel, I can't change how she feel.

JUDGE LAKE: How she feels or what she knows? Yes. CALHOUN: Mmm.

How she feels, just because me and the other guy was still kicking it doesn't mean we were still having sex. CALHOUN: That's what we were doing. Kickin' it.

No, we were having sex. All we was doing was kicking it. (LAUGHING) JUDGE LAKE: This is exactly why we have to be here.

'Cause you kids are here playing games. Right? I always tell people, sex is not like Monopoly.

It's not better with more people involved. CALHOUN: Mmm. Right?

It just makes a bigger mess. (AUDIENCE CLAPPING) What relationship does Mr Calhoun have with your daughter? He hasn't seen her since she was two months.

JUDGE LAKE: Not since she was two months old? No, ma'am. 'Cause I felt totally humiliated and embarrassed by that Facebook stuff, ma'am.

No, you felt totally humiliated with the child support papers is what it was. I really did. Because even.

. . I wasn't worrying about child support, Your Honor.

Even after she did the Facebook situation, she called me a day or two later and said, "I'm sorry. I did that out of spite. "You know you're Amiyah's father.

" I said, "No, I'm not accepting your apology. Tell me on Facebook. "Apologize to me on Facebook in front of all of them people you just told was her father.

"'Cause you told the world that the other dude was her father. " WOMAN: Mmm-mmm. JUDGE LAKE: You still have that smirk, Ms.

Proutt. Your Honor. .

. Okay, at the end of the day, this other man is there for my child. So regardless of what I'm sayin'.

. . JUDGE LAKE: Is he now?

He's there now. To this day. He's still there.

JUDGE LAKE: So, he has stepped up and acted like a father. Exactly. To this day and I'm.

. . But is this other man.

. . Is the other man you slept with?

Yes, it's him. AUDIENCE: Oh. .

. Well, Ms. Proutt.

CALHOUN: What am I supposed to think? What is he supposed to think? But he knows that he's not her father.

I don't know that. JUDGE LAKE: Have you taken a DNA test? No.

But. . .

Hmm. JUDGE LAKE: So how does he know? We just.

. . It's just.

. . We know that's not.

. . JUDGE LAKE: All right.

I'm tired of y'all. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) I'm ready for the results. (AUDIENCE CLAPPING AND CHEERING) These results were prepared by DNA Diagnostics and they read as follows.

In the case of Calhoun v. Proutt. .

. When it comes to six-month-old Amiyah Calhoun, it has been determined by this court, Mr Calhoun, you. .

. . .

. are the father. PROUTT: Whoo!

Wow. CALHOUN: Wow. CALHOUN: Wow, that's crazy.

That's a little crazy. (SOBS) Why are you so upset, Ms. Proutt?

PROUTT: Y'all don't know what I've been through with this man. This whole beef thing. I can't co-parent like that.

Either we're gonna co-parent the right way or it's just not gonna happen, and we can go to court and figure it out like that. But I just. .

. All right. We don't have to co-parent.

I would like full custody of her. Oh, no. Just like that.

PROUTT: You don't know nothin' about her. At least now that I know she's mine. What size does she wear?

What do you know about her? CALHOUN: I can learn my whole life. That doesn't even make sense.

JUDGE LAKE: Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. You are Amiyah's biological father. Yeah.

It's really a hard pill to swallow, Your Honor. JUDGE LAKE: And why do you say that? She's a beautiful.

. . 'Cause I got to deal with that for the next 18 years.

AUDIENCE: Oh! PROUTT: Deal with what? I gave you chance after chance to try to do something.

Three weeks after the baby is born, I'm already receiving child support letters. JUDGE LAKE: But, listen. But you set yourself up, Mr Calhoun.

You set yourself up. WOMAN: Yes, he did. I mean, look.

. . If we gonna really call it the way it is, you set yourself up.

Yes, Your Honor. Any time a man has sex with a woman, unprotected, you better understand that having a baby and being on the hook for child support is a very real possibility. You have a responsibility to take care of this child financially but you also have a legal right to see her.

Yes, I know. JUDGE LAKE: And you need to be in her life. Yes, Your Honor.

I plan on being. . .

Are we clear? PROUTT AND CALHOUN: Yes, Your Honor. Court is adjourned.