00:00We've been going through a lot of problems in the house with Valerie, you know, and yelling and screaming at everybody.
00:04So you said, I hope she doesn't plan on staying through the night.
00:06Right. I told her, I said, I hope you don't have plans on staying the night here.
00:09And she goes, yes, she is, and started cussing at me and F you, you know.
00:13And I said, well, I just want to tell you that I'm going to pay your half of the gas bill, you know, for my boyfriend taking showers, my brother taking showers here.
00:22And she goes, I don't care. I don't want to hear anything from you.
00:25I went in the bedroom, sat on the door in my face, I kicked the bottom of the door once, and I said, look, don't sit on the door, I'm trying to talk to you.
00:32She came out with full fists, pinned me in a corner in my hallway, and started hitting me and pulling my hair and kicking me, and it took three people to pull her off of me.
00:41You have medical bills?
00:42Yes, I do.
00:42Let me see them.
00:44You want to tell me about this assault incident?
00:45Your Honor, my best friend, she's right here, came over because we were going over to some boy's house that night.
00:52She came, she knocked on the door, said to her daughter, oh, she's so cute. Is that your daughter? How old is she?
00:58Hi, Gigi. My name is Marilyn Embry. I'm a friend of Valerie's. I came over to her house. It's been the second time I came over there.
01:04I didn't know the problem was that bad between the two of them. I knocked on the door. She was kind of rude when she opened the door.
01:10I said, hi, is Valerie here? She said, yes, she is. And I said, oh, is that your daughter? She's really cute.
01:13She didn't respond to me. Valerie came outside. I did have an overnight bag.
01:16Stop playing with the papers, please.
01:18I had an overnight bag, but I had no intentions on spending the night. I thought maybe because we were going to come back late.
01:23I didn't know it was going to be that big of a deal. Well, she said, I hope you don't plan on spending the night.
01:26Valerie says, yes, she is. And I don't, I don't think I need to talk about this with, with you anymore.
01:31Um, her and I walked down the hallway into her bedroom. She was still yelling and Valerie's yelling back, I don't want to hear it.
01:37I don't want to hear it. We go into her room. She shuts the door and locks it.
01:41She's still screaming, don't, don't on the door in my face. She kicks the door maybe once or twice.
01:45I really don't know how many times. Valerie opens the door because the door, she thought the door was going to break.
01:51I thought the door was going to break. Well, her daughter's standing right next to her the whole time.
01:54She's doing all this and she's a little, little girl. We opened the door. She pushed Valerie.
01:59Valerie pushed her back. They both started fighting. It was mutual.
02:03Yes, Valerie was hitting her more times than she was hitting her, but, I mean, we assumed that she was really going to hurt Valerie.
02:08She came to the door and kicked the door. I started pulling them apart and then her little brother came out and I just kept trying to break it up.
02:17And then the rest of the roommates came out, but she didn't like want to attack her or anything.
02:23What you're saying was she came to the door, she came to the door, she kicked at the door, when she opened the door, she pushed her first.
02:29She pushed her back and they started to fight. And she was punching, she was punching her more than she was getting punched.
02:38Judge, is that, that's what you just said?
02:40Yes.
02:41That doesn't make any difference.
02:42You're on.
02:42Who was winning the fight doesn't make any difference. What else are you suing her for?
02:47That is all.
02:47Good. It's easy. Does it look?
02:51I have something to add to it, if I might, please.
02:53About what?
02:54About the situation with the altercations, the trouble with Valerie.
02:59What's the difference of the trouble with Valerie? Madam, you're her mother?
03:02Yes, I am.
03:03Why wasn't she living with you and your grandchild?
03:05Because she's an adult and she can't take her own way.
03:08She's not an adult. She's not an adult. She's a teenager with a three-year-old child.
03:11She's quite responsible.
03:13Oh, yes. Who do you work for?
03:15I work for Vons.
03:16And you make enough money to take care of you and your child?
03:18Yes, I do.
03:19Really?
03:20Yes, I do.
03:20Yes, I also am on aid.
03:23So you get welfare.
03:24I'm on aid, plus I work because my child's father does not want to...
03:28Just a second.
03:29Just a second.
03:31You get welfare and you work at Vons.
03:34Yes.
03:34Right?
03:35Yes.
03:35And you think that that's totally responsible.
03:38That's why she's a mature adult.
03:40That's why she's not living with you with her grandchild.
03:42So you allowed your grandchild to go and live in a house where there were eight other people living.
03:46No, there was not eight other people living there at the time.
03:50See, that's what...
03:51Just a second.
03:55How many times did you go over there to see the living conditions?
03:58Numerous times.
03:59Every day I was there.
04:00Well, if you were living there and your daughter is telling me that there were eight people living in this house and a vicious dog,
04:04why didn't you take your daughter and your grandson after a day and say this is not an appropriate place for you to live?
