Spied On While Giving Birth (Full Episode) | Paternity Court

Hello, Your Honor. Hello. This is the case of Caples V.

Harris. Thank you, Jerome. Good day, everyone!

AUDIENCE: Good day. Miss Caples, you say you are 100% certain that the defendant, is your 15-month-old son, Jayceon's biological father, and today, he's going to put his name on the dotted line right in front of his girlfriend. Is that correct?

Yes, Your Honor. JUDGE LAKE: Mr Harris, you and your girlfriend say there is no way you are Jayceon's father, and once the results are revealed, you want the plaintiff to leave you alone. Is that correct?

Yes, Your Honor. Miss Caples, why do you believe that Mr Harris is denying your son? (SIGHS) Your Honor, I am here today because Mr Harris is going to sign this birth certificate today, right in front of his girlfriend.

She has a lot to do with why he is denying my child. She is very immature and has a lot of growing up to do. When were you all even together?

What was the nature of this relationship? To be completely honest, Your Honor, me and Mr Harris were never in. .

. Never. .

. Never a couple. JUDGE LAKE: Oh, you weren't.

. . Okay.

Never in a relationship. We were never in a relationship, let's clarify that now. We were just.

. . Sleeping together.

Sleeping together. That's pretty much it. JUDGE LAKE: Were you in another relationship?

I was not, no. I wasn't. Fine, now you pregnant.

Obviously, you weren't using protection if there's a question that he's the biological father. Yes, Your Honor. You tell him.

. . Did he immediately deny the baby or, you feel like he's just denying the baby now because of his girlfriend?

You're correct, Your Honor. Tell me the details. Me and Mr Harris started talking.

We used to go to high school together. HARRIS: I didn't go to high school with her. And we were Facebook friends.

Mr Harris, I made him my Man Crush Monday. He was a good guy. Hard-working, good father.

We messaged back and forth on Facebook for a while. After that we exchanged numbers. And after that we started hanging out, getting up.

And it kind of just went from there. So, Mr Harris, do you remember finding out Miss Caples was pregnant? She texted me, and told me she was pregnant.

But then, she disappeared for months. When she texted you and said, "I'm pregnant. " What did you think?

I. . .

That it could be yours? It was a possibility. Are you now with Miss Mayfield in a relationship?

Yes, ma'am. That's when I had got with her in a relationship. She was around five months.

She got jealous of what me. . .

What is there to be jealous about? I don't care about you guys being together. Miss Mayfield, Miss Mayfield, so go ahead.

Well, basically, when we started dating he told me about the situation, it was like, "You know, I was talking to some girl. "I may have a possible baby with her. " Whatever, whatever.

So I, as a woman, I just ended up accepting that. We continued to date, and we fell in love, have our own family and kids. One day, we're out with the kids, bowling, she's wrote him and, "Oh!

That be. . .

" and this and that. Basically, it was always her writing every blue moon about me. And all of a sudden there's another dude in the picture.

So who's this other guy that was in the picture? After me and Mr Harris were done and over with. You were already pregnant at the point you started dating the other man?

Correct. Yes, Your Honor. And I have an exhibit, if I can show you.

Absolutely! Please step over to the podium. Your Honor, as you can see, my son Jayceon, was born January 9th, 2016.

Okay. Me and Mr Harris were intimate for nine months all the way up. .

. All the way up until May. .

. The beginning of May. Nine months?

No! September. We started talking around September, Mr Harris.

Anyways, like I said, all the way up until the beginning of May. If you go back nine months, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, it'll bring you to April. And this is the window of conception when my son was born and.

. . JUDGE LAKE: When he was conceived.

Conceived, I'm sorry. And this is within the timeframe I was still intimate with Mr Harris. And this is the information that you were given at the doctor, and based upon the timeline of when the baby was born, this is your estimated window of conception.

Full term. Yes, Your Honor. All right.

Mr Harris, do you agree you were intimate with Miss Caples in the month of April? I'm not sure, Your Honor. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) I'm not sure.

You don't know? You don't remember the actual month, so it could be true or not. HARRIS: It could be true.

So, it could be. All right. All right.

Thank you so much for that presentation. So, Mr Harris, if you don't remember whether or not you were with her, is it because you were involved with more than one woman? I mean, you don't remember.

HARRIS: Yes, Your Honor. JUDGE LAKE: So you were with more than one woman at that time? Yes, Your Honor.

Okay, so that's why you really can't say for certain who you were with on what date. Yes, Your Honor. Got it!

Now Miss Caples, I have to ask you, were you involved with more than one man? No, I was not and he did not tell me that he was dealing with other women while me and him were talking. So I did not know that he was playing.

. . Men usually don't tell you if they want to keep getting it!

She went through my phone and texted other women back. I went through your phone, I didn't text nobody back, but I did go through your phone. He cut it off.

Yeah. It got salty. Cut me off?

Please! Yeah, that's the time y'all stopped talking. I know, boo, I know the whole story!

I'm sure you do, 'cause you were there, right? And you were there. .

. He don't even know your real name! So, how was that?

You laid up with somebody who didn't even know your real name. Yeah, I didn't. .

. I didn't. .

. Wait a minute! Wait, wait, wait!

Who didn't know whose real name? HARRIS: I didn't know her real name! JUDGE LAKE: Mr Harris, you were sleeping with this woman for all these months and you didn't even know her name?

Not her real name. Well, I saw something about this in my court papers and I really couldn't believe it. Jerome, can you find Dana Taylor, please, and escort her into the courtroom?

JEROME: Sure. Miss Taylor works for this court and, uh. .

. I want to ask her a question. Mr Harris just testified to the fact he didn't even know Miss Caples' name, is that true?

TAYLOR: When we contacted Mr Harris, and told him that Miss Shanteri Caples summonsed him for a DNA test, he said, "I don't know who you're talking about. " I said, "Muffin? " HARRIS: That is correct.

I'm pretty sure I told him my name. Would you remember Shanteri or would you remember Muffin? What I go by around town.

JUDGE LAKE: If you're having sex for that many months, with the same person, without using any protection, you gotta at least know their name! So, Mr Harris, I want to understand your doubts, because the truth is, you've stated in this courtroom, that there could be a possibility that this child is yours. Yes, Your Honor.

JUDGE LAKE: Why do you doubt, specifically? Her best friend, she told me that the kid is not mine. On social media, I was getting messages all other people she knows, her friends.

. . JUDGE LAKE: You said she told you the child was not yours.

She told me not too long ago that she did have sex with one guy. After the fact! She said it was only one time, but that's all it takes.

Why would I bring it up, Your Honor, if it was after his time? I was already pregnant and I didn't even know I was pregnant. That's nasty!

JUDGE LAKE: Hold on now. Let's let all the little side comments go 'cause Miss Mayfield, Mr Harris was out there too. This is where we end up, in this courtroom with a beautiful little baby, trying to figure out who the father is.

Because there was no commitment. No. No.

There's no marriage, there's no nothing. So, it's easy to blame Miss Caples but you also have to look at your man! He wasn't my man at the time.

JUDGE LAKE: It doesn't matter, it's your man now. I was, I was actually there in the beginning, like, buying Pampers and clothes and stuff but, like I said, Miss Caples had a problem, she disappeared for months, no calls, no texts. Okay, so this is another interesting fact I'd like to hear about.

So, Mr Harris, take me to the point when Jayceon was born. Did he get to come to the delivery room? He didn't have a ride, Your Honor.

HARRIS: I was at work. "He didn't have a ride"? I was at the work when she delivered the baby, the next morning I came up there.

You did? When I looked at him, he didn't look like me at all. No, he does not.

I had my doubt. . .

I did have my doubts, but like I said, everybody around town says that she goes around saying it's another guy's baby. So when you came up to the hospital to see the baby, did you sign the birth certificate? No, I did not.

Because you did not want to, or you were not even asked to? Well, I wasn't asked and I had my doubts. JUDGE LAKE: So you didn't ask him to sign the birth certificate, Miss Caples?

And why is that if you knew he was the child's biological father? He wasn't even there for the birth. I was at work.

So what? Were you at work when she went into labor? Probably, but you were at the hospital, right?

I'm his girl and I wasn't banging nobody else. I was at work when she. .

. Is that an excuse? If I'm telling you that I'm in labor, two hours before time.

And my friend had my cellphone and she was texting him the whole time like, "Um, she's in labor. " So by the time he never showed, you were angry and so then you didn't say. .

. I wasn't worried about him signing the birth certificate at that point. You wanna act like you ain't the daddy, we can act like that.

But you are here today saying, now he has to sign it in front of his girlfriend. What does it matter if I'm here or not? What does that got to do?

JUDGE LAKE: But my point is this. . .

Hold on. If it didn't make any difference to you then, do you know now that that was an error? Yes, Your Honor, I'm sorry.

So you've come to the realization that that was you being angry? And now that's why you're here in court today because you know that your child deserves to have mother and father listed on his birth certificate? Yes, Your Honor.

So now, Jayceon is 15 months old. How many times have you seen him? Not a lot.

She won't let me see him. Because of her! Your Honor, let me take this.

His family member sees him all the time. His family members see him all the time, and we'll go over there and go see him. She, "Oh no, I don't want Alexis around him.

" I never even spoke two words to her! You were in my hospital room. No, I don't want you around him.

I have never had a conversation with this woman. Today is the first day! Hold on!

Hold on. What is this about the hospital room, Miss Caples? I'm undergoing surgery, getting ready to have my tubes tied and she.

. . MAYFIELD: That is my job!

That is my job! Could you say, Your Honor, as a woman. .

. I would not want to be in a room with a woman that's having my boyfriend's baby. Okay, so you was a patient.

JUDGE LAKE: So, wait a minute, Miss Caples. You work at the hospital, right? MAYFIELD: Yes, ma'am.

And then that is where they told you your station or where you were supposed to be, you were assigned to. . .

We got our stuff to do, yes, ma'am. You did not let anyone know because it was your job and you were trying to be professional. Yes, ma'am.

If you say you were there to get your tubes tied, then what is there to see? She didn't know your name either, so she probably didn't know who you were. I go to work every day, in the morning, and we go start our routine.

She was looking for me, Your Honor. And we do that and I went upon. .

. And she never said noting either. So I would think any patient that had an issue they'd be like, "I don't feel comfortable, "I don't want this person in here.

" Yada, yada. . .

She didn't do that. Later on down the road I find out that I'm messy, and I'm in her business. How?

What did I do to be in your business? Okay, so now I want to know, since 15 months has passed, and there's been no real attempt to get a DNA test, have you allowed him to be in Jayceon's life in the meantime? Because the baby's a year-and-a-half now.

I did give him the opportunity. But he was always working, so if you're at work, then my baby's at home with her, what's the point in that? Oh!

That's why he wrote you though, at nighttime! He would write me at nighttime when my son's asleep, 10 o'clock at night! What you want to come over and watch him sleep?

That's the time he got! I'll send you a picture of him if you want to see him sleep. Or do you want to come over for me?

Oh, you're saying that he would write you in the evening and say he wants to come over and see the baby. . .

CAPLES: What's the boy doing? 10 o'clock at night, 11 o'clock at night? He's asleep!

MAYFIELD: It's nothing new. HARRIS: It' nothing new. I have wrote her late.

I did that. So, it was kind of hard. So don't say that I was keeping him that's why you didn't see him.

Because you a hard-working. MAYFIELD: All this time? A year and a half later?

Girl, you had weekends where you would drop him off with his family members all the time but he could never see him. You would never let him see him. He would go over to the house.

. . Don't give that excuse.

It's stupid. So wait a minute, Miss Caples, you're letting his family members see the baby? I'm close with his sister.

MAYFIELD: 'Cause you guys go out all the time! I don't go out. .

. That's the only reason! 'Cause you could've easily given him to him when he did!

He don't have to drive from work! He would be out too! You at home with the kids!

What you talking about? No, he don't! (INDISTINCT ARGUING) JUDGE LAKE: All right, one at a time!

One at a time, ladies! Ooh-wee! What's disappointing is that, you all and this back-and-forth is getting in the way of us finding out the answers and trying to achieve some sort of resolution for Jayceon, because if what Miss Caples has asserted is true and you are his biological father, y'all can't do this!

Exactly, it shouldn't even be this way! I mean, you can't do this is front of this child. CAPLES: She's playing innocent.

She's not innocent. What have I done this? "No, you can't do this!

" I don't even know how this is going on, they don't even know each other. You're childish! I don't want to deal with you.

Period. JUDGE LAKE: All right, all right, all right! Have I heard all your doubts, Mr Harris?

A lot of people around town telling me it's not mine. As I said, that's her words. Her words.

So, people are telling you he's not yours, then she even says he's not yours. . .

So to keep pushing me away when I'm trying to be there for the child, it's kind of like he's not. . .

But you don't think he's yours! That is the reason for that! That's why I don't want to include you, one minute you don't think he's yours, the next minute you do.

JUDGE LAKE: All right, that's what we're here to solve today. That's exactly why this courtroom exists, because you all going back and forth on some tit-for-tat nonsense and, "Oh, he don't think this so I ain't gonna let him see him and. .

. " This is all nonsense! And you know what?

I got the results and that's what's gonna help us move onto a better page. Jerome, let me have that envelope. (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) Jerome, yes please, stand there.

I don't want any drama. (JUDGE LAKE SIGHS) These results were prepared by DNA Diagnostics and they read as follows. When it comes to 15-month-old Jayceon Miquel Harris Caples, it has been determined by this court, Mr Harris.

. . You.

. . .

. . are not the father.

(AUDIENCE GASPING) Thank you. MAYFIELD: You didn't sleep with no one else? Baby, let it go, let it go.

JUDGE LAKE: Miss Caples. . .

I would like to publicly. . .

. . .

apologize to Mr Harris. I honestly thought that it was yours. We messed around, we were intimate a lot, you know we were.

It was a very big possibility that it was yours. So, I apologize from the heart, sincerely, I'm sorry about that. I really am.

I accept it. Do you know who Jayceon's father is? CAPLES: Absolutely, absolutely.

Will he want to be a part of his life? Yes, yes. So let's take a moment to just learn from this lesson, because there's been a lot going on here.

I mean, I was annoyed, I was disgusted by the behavior I witnessed in this courtroom between you two women. This has been two years of drama for nothing! When I asked you, Miss Caples, during the case, "Could it be anybody else?

" you said, "No. " And yet, when I read the result, you immediately apologized to Mr Harris, which was the right thing to do, but at the end of the day the mother always bears the burden because we have the children. Yes, ma'am.

That's just how we are. That's just it. And so I think we're in a situation now where I hope that you all have learned.

And I'm glad you're in a good relationship. I hope you all keep that going. But, Miss Caples, I don't want this to ever happen to you again.

You're a beautiful young woman. You shouldn't be out here like this. All right?

CAPLES: Yes. Yes, Your Honor. We have counseling and resources for you all.

Please take care of that beautiful baby. So precious. And I hope his father will want to be a part of his life.

Best of luck to you. Court is adjourned.