had her arrested by calling police and claiming she ran away from home. i want to take a few minutes to get a sense of what we need to do to accomplish what i anticipate is your desire to go home. yes. okay. so one of the things that particularly concerns me is that not too long ago you had a very similar charge. you were charged with running away, right? yeah, but this time it was a misunderstanding. okay, well how do we explain when the judge asks, kymyada, now we re here again. what s different this time? it was a misunderstanding because at this time i don t stay with my mom. i stay with my god mom.
you won t get on the birth control pills. you re not doing anything i ask. all the sudden because you locked up you want to make changes. no, no, that s not true because i was making changes before this even happened. not in the streets, yada. you can t make changes in the streets. okay, i slipped up. i know that. how long are you going to be in this slip-up? no, you re going to stay there. being arrested on a friday means kymyada will be detained until she can see the judge on monday. a weekend in juvenile is more than enough for any one person, but when days stretch into weeks, the stress and loneliness of lockup can create volatile situations. the command center receives a call from e wing about an offender possessing dangerous contraband. he pulled the screw out of the desk you know that long bolt a probably like eight or ten-inch bolt.
so i have been making progress. okay. judge, that s all i have. kymyada, where had you been with the baby all night? over at my cousin s house. we spent the night over there because it was late. is that a habit of yours to take this baby and drop it off different places? no, that is not a habit. no. huh-uh. and how old s your boyfriend? he s 18. is he in school? no, ma am. are you seeing a pattern here? you re not detecting a pattern of doing things in your life that isn t in your best interest? but i can t look at what he s doing. i got to do for me. yeah, we going together but people going to do what they want to do. i have no further questions, judge. kymyada, you may have a seat back there. next witness. judge, i m going to call kim foster to the stand, please. ms. foster, so the court can get
juvenile court. mother and kymyada have met and talked, and mother believes now that it s in kymyada s and her best interest to have kymyada released back into mother s custody today. miss foster? a couple weeks back you indicated you felt you really couldn t commit to taking kymyada home with you. tell us what s happened since then. during that short time i have made phone calls, done some research, finagled and moved around schedules so there could be someone in the home, because i felt it was the best interest of kymyada along with the family and her daughter for her to be more at home. why did you do all those things and make all those changes? because i love my daughter. have you met with kymyada or talked with her since she s been away? yes, i have. tell me about that. yada understands that it was her behavior that puts her in this situation. she has some maturing to do, but other than that she s been fine. she needs to raise her baby. that s her baby, that s
at least better understanding of who kymyada is, tell us about your daughter. she s always had issues. i ve always tried to address those issues. doing and being the best mom i possibly could. unfortunately for kymyada she needs more attention than i can give her because me and my husband both work. to the point where we are now it started with being disrespectful with me. after that we laid down the law. either you abide by our rules, or you need to go somewhere else. she chose to go and be with her god mother. that s fine. i know where you re at. you re safe. we ll work this out. you were okay with that. in fact, you presented that to her as an option? exactly. i trusted that person and i knew she would be safe with that person. so she didn t leave the house without your permission, did she? today the court is