1 00:00:00,746 --> 00:00:02,873 In the criminal justice system... 2 00:00:02,948 --> 00:00:06,884 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: 3 00:00:06,952 --> 00:00:08,749 The police who investigate crime... 4 00:00:08,821 --> 00:00:11,618 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,689 --> 00:00:13,384 These are their stories. 6 00:00:18,396 --> 00:00:20,489 Wendy here? You mean Bughead? 7 00:00:20,565 --> 00:00:21,589 Is she here? 8 00:00:21,666 --> 00:00:24,157 Yeah, she's got her head stuck in the tailpipe. 9 00:00:24,235 --> 00:00:25,827 She's trying to kill the lice. 10 00:00:25,904 --> 00:00:28,031 We're leaving, kid. You on or off? 11 00:00:28,673 --> 00:00:29,833 Okay. 12 00:00:38,749 --> 00:00:42,708 I went to her apartment but Beatrice didn't answer the door. 13 00:00:42,786 --> 00:00:46,187 The lady across the hall hasn't seen Wendy for two days. 14 00:00:47,057 --> 00:00:48,547 Well, who's Beatrice? 15 00:00:48,625 --> 00:00:51,185 Beatrice Hines is Wendy's foster mother. 16 00:00:51,261 --> 00:00:53,991 I tried calling over there but there wasn't an answer. 17 00:00:54,064 --> 00:00:56,964 Well, maybe they just went away for a couple of days. 18 00:00:57,033 --> 00:00:58,432 They didn't go away. 19 00:00:58,501 --> 00:01:00,799 Beatrice was in there. I heard her moving around. 20 00:01:00,870 --> 00:01:02,497 But something's happened to Wendy. 21 00:01:02,572 --> 00:01:04,506 Well, it could be she's just sick in bed. 22 00:01:04,574 --> 00:01:08,066 She would've called me. She would've had me bring her homework. 23 00:01:08,144 --> 00:01:12,308 Well, don't you think that Wendy's foster mom would have called us? 24 00:01:12,682 --> 00:01:16,118 She doesn't care about Wendy. But I do. 25 00:01:16,352 --> 00:01:20,287 That woman does not take care of that child. I've seen it myself. 26 00:01:23,391 --> 00:01:26,918 You know how kids are today. They come, they go. 27 00:01:27,028 --> 00:01:29,861 This one goes for two days, and you don't think to call us? 28 00:01:29,931 --> 00:01:32,456 Look, she'll turn up. She always does. 29 00:01:33,235 --> 00:01:35,931 You find any kind of a note, like maybe she ran away? 30 00:01:36,004 --> 00:01:37,494 No, nothing. 31 00:01:37,572 --> 00:01:39,199 When did you see her last? 32 00:01:39,274 --> 00:01:41,333 Day before yesterday, when she came home from school. 33 00:01:41,409 --> 00:01:43,103 I told her to get busy on the laundry. 34 00:01:43,177 --> 00:01:45,202 You know, we got the self-service down the block. 35 00:01:45,279 --> 00:01:48,305 And yesterday? Bells didn't go off when she didn't come home? 36 00:01:48,382 --> 00:01:51,351 Look, I thought maybe she went to visit her friend Janel. 37 00:01:51,418 --> 00:01:55,411 I work nights. I can't pay attention to everything that girl does. 38 00:01:57,458 --> 00:01:59,221 My towels aren't here. 39 00:01:59,460 --> 00:02:01,155 Now you're worried, huh? 40 00:02:01,462 --> 00:02:03,760 I guess maybe you better look for her. 41 00:02:04,031 --> 00:02:06,658 A 10-year-old girl, gone two nights. 42 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:08,797 No problem. 43 00:02:58,182 --> 00:03:01,049 Yeah, she was here around dinnertime Monday. 44 00:03:01,118 --> 00:03:03,916 She sorts by colors. She knows how to use bleach. 45 00:03:04,088 --> 00:03:06,613 Do a lot of people send their kids to do their wash? 46 00:03:06,691 --> 00:03:08,386 If they could, they'd send their dogs. 47 00:03:08,459 --> 00:03:10,086 You see her talking to anybody? 48 00:03:10,161 --> 00:03:12,391 Just me. We joke around. 49 00:03:12,563 --> 00:03:15,656 Sometimes I buy her a soda or give her half my sandwich. 50 00:03:15,732 --> 00:03:19,259 All she ever has is money for the machines, nothing extra. 51 00:03:19,336 --> 00:03:20,803 Did you buy her a soda on Monday? 52 00:03:20,870 --> 00:03:23,464 I had five dryers down. I nearly had a riot. 53 00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:24,939 What time did Wendy leave? 54 00:03:25,008 --> 00:03:27,806 I don't know but she left her dark load in the machine. 55 00:03:27,877 --> 00:03:30,243 What am I supposed to do with this stuff? 56 00:03:30,313 --> 00:03:32,713 We hit every store on the block with her picture. 57 00:03:32,782 --> 00:03:35,342 And nobody saw the little washer girl? 58 00:03:35,652 --> 00:03:38,415 The foster mother, she give you a list of the girl's friends? 59 00:03:38,487 --> 00:03:40,546 I don't think she knows or cares. 60 00:03:40,622 --> 00:03:42,749 She seemed to miss her towels more than the kid. 61 00:03:42,825 --> 00:03:45,851 What about the girl's real mother? We're on our way. 62 00:03:50,599 --> 00:03:53,159 Since I got the call, I've been sick with worry. 63 00:03:53,235 --> 00:03:55,328 I've been trying to get custody again. 64 00:03:55,404 --> 00:03:58,567 She's my little girl. Her foster mother didn't seem too worried. 65 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,334 That bitch Beatrice. 66 00:04:00,541 --> 00:04:04,238 She just cares about Wendy for the check. I'm her mother, I'm blood. 67 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,846 And she'd be living here if there wasn't a problem, is that correct? 68 00:04:09,951 --> 00:04:12,215 I used to drink. I'm getting off it. 69 00:04:12,286 --> 00:04:14,015 Yeah? How's it going? 70 00:04:15,123 --> 00:04:16,613 This is just a beer. 71 00:04:18,459 --> 00:04:20,518 When's the last time you saw her? 72 00:04:21,596 --> 00:04:24,462 A couple of weeks ago, she came, she spent the night. 73 00:04:24,531 --> 00:04:26,226 And since then? 74 00:04:27,968 --> 00:04:30,402 My little girl, they got her all messed up. 75 00:04:30,470 --> 00:04:33,268 And who would "they" be? Children's Services. 76 00:04:34,341 --> 00:04:37,833 This is her home. I knew this would happen. 77 00:04:38,178 --> 00:04:39,839 What would happen? 78 00:04:41,148 --> 00:04:44,743 She'd run away because of Beatrice's boyfriend. 79 00:04:47,453 --> 00:04:49,717 Oh, you don't know? A guy named Brian. 80 00:04:51,457 --> 00:04:53,823 He'd get drunk and he'd beat her up. 81 00:04:53,893 --> 00:04:55,884 He got arrested but nothing ever happened to him. 82 00:04:55,961 --> 00:04:59,260 I complained to Children's Services but... 83 00:05:00,099 --> 00:05:03,068 they gonna listen to me? I'm only her mother. 84 00:05:04,770 --> 00:05:08,228 I don't know where she is, and I don't care where she is. 85 00:05:08,307 --> 00:05:10,501 We heard you cared enough to slap her around. 86 00:05:10,575 --> 00:05:12,099 Hey. Her mother's lying... 87 00:05:12,177 --> 00:05:14,645 to try to get her back, so she can collect the welfare check. 88 00:05:14,712 --> 00:05:16,839 She probably put the kid up to it. 89 00:05:17,382 --> 00:05:20,249 Did she put the DA up to arresting you? 90 00:05:20,585 --> 00:05:23,782 I'm out on bail. I never did anything to her. 91 00:05:23,855 --> 00:05:25,379 Your trial's coming up. 92 00:05:25,457 --> 00:05:27,925 Be nice for you if the star witness disappeared. 93 00:05:27,992 --> 00:05:31,393 I never go near her. That's one of the conditions of my bail. 94 00:05:32,029 --> 00:05:34,497 I can't even stay over with my own girlfriend. 95 00:05:34,565 --> 00:05:37,329 You do any laundry Monday, about 6:00? 96 00:05:37,401 --> 00:05:39,028 I was here until 8:00. 97 00:05:39,103 --> 00:05:42,072 Underneath a Toyota with a leaky transmission. 98 00:05:42,339 --> 00:05:43,772 They can tell you. 99 00:05:44,708 --> 00:05:46,608 Look, the kid lied. 100 00:05:47,678 --> 00:05:50,442 It runs in the family. You saw what her mother was like. 101 00:05:50,514 --> 00:05:53,415 Brian never hit her. She just made it all up. 102 00:05:53,617 --> 00:05:55,015 Yeah, maybe. 103 00:05:55,118 --> 00:05:57,746 I mean, the kid's got this kind of weird imagination. 104 00:05:57,820 --> 00:06:00,983 She just sits in her room all day just telling stories to the wall. 105 00:06:01,057 --> 00:06:03,048 I got a hard enough time getting her out of there... 106 00:06:03,126 --> 00:06:04,559 so she can come and do her chores. 107 00:06:04,627 --> 00:06:07,289 You smack her yourself once in a while to give her incentive? 108 00:06:07,363 --> 00:06:10,992 I never touched her. Brian never touched her. 109 00:06:11,267 --> 00:06:13,633 When he's here, we got better things to do. 110 00:06:13,703 --> 00:06:16,831 Well, Beatrice, if we start asking the neighbors... 111 00:06:16,906 --> 00:06:20,807 are we gonna find out that Brian's been coming around, ignoring his bail order? 112 00:06:20,876 --> 00:06:24,835 Because if he does, he goes straight to jail, and you lose custody of the kid. 113 00:06:24,913 --> 00:06:26,813 Yeah? Well, that would be terrible. 114 00:06:26,882 --> 00:06:28,850 Yeah, your check stops coming. 115 00:06:28,917 --> 00:06:30,817 Know how I got Wendy? 116 00:06:30,886 --> 00:06:34,378 I used to get a sandwich at a coffee shop where her mother was a waitress... 117 00:06:34,456 --> 00:06:36,617 when she could stand up. 118 00:06:36,691 --> 00:06:37,953 We became friends. 119 00:06:38,026 --> 00:06:40,051 She was having trouble down at Children's Services. 120 00:06:40,128 --> 00:06:44,587 She knew I liked kids. Peggy gave Wendy to me. 121 00:06:44,798 --> 00:06:47,596 What, was she on the menu under Live-In Servants? 122 00:06:47,668 --> 00:06:50,466 I'm the best thing that ever happened to that kid. 123 00:06:54,308 --> 00:06:56,799 Beatrice Hines was qualified as a foster parent. 124 00:06:56,877 --> 00:07:00,540 The birth mother's consent papers were in order. They were friends. 125 00:07:00,814 --> 00:07:04,874 Is it departmental policy that children can be exchanged as gifts? 126 00:07:05,351 --> 00:07:07,478 Peggy Sylvester used to send her daughter out... 127 00:07:07,554 --> 00:07:10,079 to shoplift cigarettes and six packs for her. 128 00:07:10,156 --> 00:07:13,182 Moving Wendy out of that environment was a considerable improvement. 129 00:07:13,259 --> 00:07:16,990 Oh, really? Well, did you ever drop by and take a look at that foster home? 130 00:07:17,063 --> 00:07:20,897 I investigated the child abuse report and talked to Wendy in person. 131 00:07:21,134 --> 00:07:22,726 Followed up with a phone call. 132 00:07:22,802 --> 00:07:25,293 I was assured that Brian Sprague was staying away. 133 00:07:25,371 --> 00:07:27,463 Did Wendy ever talk about running away? 134 00:07:27,539 --> 00:07:30,235 She did run away once, about four months ago. 135 00:07:30,309 --> 00:07:33,278 She came back about a day later. Did she say where she went? 136 00:07:33,345 --> 00:07:35,643 She told me that her father owned Central Park. 137 00:07:35,714 --> 00:07:38,649 She was going to live in Belvedere Castle but it didn't work out. 138 00:07:38,717 --> 00:07:40,207 Who is her father? 139 00:07:40,285 --> 00:07:43,118 She has no idea. Her mother's not too sure, either. 140 00:07:44,590 --> 00:07:48,117 Our teacher's got us putting these up all over the neighborhood. 141 00:07:48,694 --> 00:07:51,059 Maybe somebody will recognize her. 142 00:07:51,562 --> 00:07:52,995 Do you think she ran away? 143 00:07:53,064 --> 00:07:55,532 I mean, was she saving her money up for it? 144 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,092 Beatrice never gave her nothing, just worked her. 145 00:07:59,537 --> 00:08:02,597 I lent her some of my clothes, so she wouldn't freeze... 146 00:08:02,673 --> 00:08:04,732 and my mom let her come over for dinner. 147 00:08:04,809 --> 00:08:07,073 So she never talked about running away? 148 00:08:07,144 --> 00:08:09,840 Yeah, but there's no way she would've gone now. 149 00:08:10,114 --> 00:08:14,209 We had a trip to the Museum of Natural History to see the dinosaurs. 150 00:08:14,284 --> 00:08:15,717 Oh, she liked that sort of thing? 151 00:08:15,785 --> 00:08:18,379 Yeah, she was crazy about that stuff. 152 00:08:18,755 --> 00:08:21,087 Did she have any other friends? 153 00:08:21,291 --> 00:08:23,122 You mean real ones? 154 00:08:23,193 --> 00:08:25,423 What, she had some other kind? 155 00:08:26,296 --> 00:08:27,524 Well... 156 00:08:28,298 --> 00:08:32,701 you got to promise you don't tell nobody, but she wrote letters to Carol. 157 00:08:32,769 --> 00:08:34,532 It's just a made-up somebody... 158 00:08:34,604 --> 00:08:38,130 like there was a big sister somewhere else that she was writing to. 159 00:08:38,207 --> 00:08:40,334 Well, we might want to look at those letters. 160 00:08:40,409 --> 00:08:42,775 She didn't want anybody to know about them. 161 00:08:42,845 --> 00:08:46,440 Well, we won't tell anybody and it might help us find her. 162 00:08:48,784 --> 00:08:50,445 Her school locker. 163 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,385 Right 23, left 10... 164 00:08:55,224 --> 00:08:56,714 right 14. 165 00:08:58,259 --> 00:08:59,988 Sometimes she writes letters... 166 00:09:00,061 --> 00:09:03,360 sometimes she writes poems to this imaginary friend. 167 00:09:04,365 --> 00:09:07,630 "Riding a pony in the snow Another place to go 168 00:09:07,702 --> 00:09:11,160 "Smiling and laughing on TV Another place to be 169 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:16,101 "Flying away on a giant beast With my suitcase in its teeth" 170 00:09:16,678 --> 00:09:21,341 Okay, so we check pony stables, TV studios, and Big Bird. 171 00:09:22,616 --> 00:09:23,844 Well, somebody liked it. 172 00:09:23,917 --> 00:09:26,943 They wrote, "Excellent work, Wendy. Very imaginative." 173 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,578 That's great, but it's dark out, and it's night number three. 174 00:09:31,892 --> 00:09:36,192 Here's more writing in the margin, spelling and grammar corrections. 175 00:09:36,763 --> 00:09:38,788 Teacher? Yeah. 176 00:09:39,333 --> 00:09:41,893 One she liked enough to tell her secrets to. 177 00:09:42,636 --> 00:09:45,763 Yes, I recognize the margin notes. Arnette Fenady. 178 00:09:45,971 --> 00:09:47,632 They must be from last semester. 179 00:09:47,707 --> 00:09:49,334 You can date the ink? 180 00:09:50,109 --> 00:09:53,636 Miss Fenady gave a poetry workshop for our more gifted students. 181 00:09:54,980 --> 00:09:58,939 Despite Wendy's appearance, and the fact that she was often exhausted... 182 00:09:59,018 --> 00:10:01,145 and that she had to be treated for head lice... 183 00:10:01,220 --> 00:10:03,381 she had the potential to be an A student. 184 00:10:03,456 --> 00:10:05,651 Where is this teacher now? In class? 185 00:10:05,725 --> 00:10:07,851 No, she's currently on a leave of absence. 186 00:10:07,926 --> 00:10:10,520 She's a published poet herself who donates her time. 187 00:10:10,595 --> 00:10:12,688 Would she have gotten to know Wendy pretty well? 188 00:10:12,764 --> 00:10:14,789 There are only half a dozen kids in the class. 189 00:10:14,866 --> 00:10:17,334 Practically a 1-1 situation. Ideal. 190 00:10:17,435 --> 00:10:18,527 Ideal how? 191 00:10:18,603 --> 00:10:20,730 Here we have 40 children to a class. 192 00:10:20,805 --> 00:10:23,933 Our school system encourages these volunteers from the community. 193 00:10:24,008 --> 00:10:25,999 So you'd have her address? 194 00:10:30,948 --> 00:10:33,746 That's terrible. How long has she been missing? 195 00:10:33,817 --> 00:10:35,216 Since three days ago. 196 00:10:35,285 --> 00:10:37,048 Miss Fenady, if she did run away... 197 00:10:37,121 --> 00:10:39,316 would you have any idea where she might have gone to? 198 00:10:39,390 --> 00:10:42,382 No. I just know she was very unhappy. 199 00:10:42,593 --> 00:10:44,322 Have you talked to her friend Janel? 200 00:10:44,395 --> 00:10:45,623 Yes, we did. 201 00:10:45,696 --> 00:10:47,755 Did Wendy talk to you much about her problems? 202 00:10:47,831 --> 00:10:50,129 No, I just had to read her poems. 203 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:51,428 What do you mean? 204 00:10:51,502 --> 00:10:54,231 Well, there is a real survivor's spirit there. 205 00:10:54,303 --> 00:10:58,740 She lives in miserable circumstances but she never gave up on herself. 206 00:11:00,009 --> 00:11:02,375 Dear God, I hope she's all right. 207 00:11:02,678 --> 00:11:04,976 Do you have any children, Miss Fenady? 208 00:11:05,214 --> 00:11:08,445 No. No, I'm not blessed with children. 209 00:11:08,918 --> 00:11:11,318 Well, it's an awful lot of house here for one person. 210 00:11:11,387 --> 00:11:15,880 Yes, it's been in the family nearly a century. I hold poetry workshops here. 211 00:11:15,991 --> 00:11:17,424 So Wendy's been here? 212 00:11:17,492 --> 00:11:20,484 Yes, but I haven't seen her since last term. 213 00:11:20,662 --> 00:11:23,859 You must give me your number. There's a chance she might contact me. 214 00:11:23,932 --> 00:11:26,059 She has your phone number? Yes. 215 00:11:26,868 --> 00:11:29,632 All my children do. Well, we'll be in touch. 216 00:11:30,405 --> 00:11:33,033 If there's anything I can do. Thank you. 217 00:11:34,876 --> 00:11:37,844 I could have used a few teachers like her at PS 189. 218 00:11:37,912 --> 00:11:40,938 Oh, yeah? I don't know, something about her. 219 00:11:41,782 --> 00:11:43,647 What? She donates her time helping kids. 220 00:11:43,717 --> 00:11:46,550 She gives her phone number to her students. Why would anyone bother? 221 00:11:46,620 --> 00:11:48,383 What, that makes her too good to be true? 222 00:11:48,456 --> 00:11:51,016 Hey, humor me, will you? Let's check her out. 223 00:11:51,392 --> 00:11:55,556 One arrest, February 1990. Endangering the welfare of a minor. 224 00:11:55,629 --> 00:11:58,029 The charges were dropped, so the record was sealed. 225 00:11:58,098 --> 00:12:00,861 Which means we can't find out what the charge was about. 226 00:12:00,934 --> 00:12:04,802 Could be she took her students to the pony rides, and then some parent panicked. 227 00:12:04,871 --> 00:12:08,170 Well, sealed or not, there's a file sitting in someone's desk. 228 00:12:08,241 --> 00:12:10,903 I'll call Kincaid. Get her working on a judge's order. 229 00:12:10,977 --> 00:12:14,378 The clock's running out on this kid. We don't have time to wait for a judge. 230 00:12:14,447 --> 00:12:17,314 Well, then find out who the arresting officer was. 231 00:12:18,518 --> 00:12:21,282 Oh, yeah, the rich poet. You've seen the place she lives? 232 00:12:21,354 --> 00:12:24,083 Yeah, so how did she endanger the welfare of a minor? 233 00:12:24,156 --> 00:12:26,420 Drinking a sherry while playing Pick-Up Sticks? 234 00:12:27,693 --> 00:12:30,025 The complaint was from the parents of a 6-year-old. 235 00:12:30,095 --> 00:12:32,723 One of her little poets. She tried to kidnap the kid. 236 00:12:32,798 --> 00:12:33,992 Tried how? 237 00:12:34,066 --> 00:12:38,059 She kept her overnight, and then denied she had her when the parents showed up. 238 00:12:38,136 --> 00:12:39,467 And when you showed up? 239 00:12:39,538 --> 00:12:42,769 She was packing the kid into her car for a trip upstate. 240 00:12:43,475 --> 00:12:47,934 It was weird. It took us three hours to get her to admit it wasn't her kid. 241 00:12:54,185 --> 00:12:57,643 Your lecture about your commitment to children was fascinating. 242 00:12:58,956 --> 00:13:01,652 Why did you leave out the part about kidnapping? 243 00:13:01,993 --> 00:13:04,757 Well, that's not what I did at all. I was protecting her. 244 00:13:04,829 --> 00:13:05,955 From what? 245 00:13:06,030 --> 00:13:09,294 Well, Molly was malnourished. She hadn't had any proper food. 246 00:13:09,366 --> 00:13:11,834 Some people don't deserve to be parents. 247 00:13:11,902 --> 00:13:13,927 You ever hear of Children's Services? 248 00:13:14,004 --> 00:13:17,098 Yes, of course. But they have their procedures. 249 00:13:17,707 --> 00:13:20,540 The child could have died if I hadn't done something. 250 00:13:20,610 --> 00:13:24,706 And a drive upstate in the middle of winter, that was going to save her life? 251 00:13:25,782 --> 00:13:28,478 I was frightened and I overreacted. 252 00:13:29,119 --> 00:13:33,384 But everyone knows I did the right thing. Molly was placed in foster care. 253 00:13:33,455 --> 00:13:35,514 The charges against me were dropped. 254 00:13:35,591 --> 00:13:39,186 Which brings us to Wendy. Is she your latest cause? 255 00:13:39,261 --> 00:13:41,229 I am very worried about her. 256 00:13:41,997 --> 00:13:44,693 Why can't you just believe that I want to help? 257 00:13:45,868 --> 00:13:47,961 You see a little girl getting slapped around... 258 00:13:48,037 --> 00:13:50,062 a lot of people would take her into their home. 259 00:13:50,139 --> 00:13:52,164 Yeah, and those people usually call the cops. 260 00:13:52,241 --> 00:13:54,607 Well, your hunches aren't gonna get us a search warrant. 261 00:13:54,677 --> 00:13:59,010 Well, we got the notebooks. Let's see if there's anything about Fenady in there. 262 00:14:04,419 --> 00:14:08,321 "Flying away on a giant beast With my suitcase in its teeth" 263 00:14:09,057 --> 00:14:11,685 That doesn't sound like Fenady to me. 264 00:14:12,293 --> 00:14:13,624 Wait a minute. 265 00:14:14,062 --> 00:14:18,998 "On leather wings, I fly beyond Atop my friend the pteranodon" 266 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,332 The flying beast is a dinosaur. 267 00:14:22,603 --> 00:14:24,366 So a brontosaurus did it. 268 00:14:25,005 --> 00:14:28,441 No, Fenady's comments are on this poem, and Wendy's friend said... 269 00:14:28,508 --> 00:14:31,909 they didn't learn about dinosaurs until a couple of weeks ago. 270 00:14:33,347 --> 00:14:37,010 Fenady said she hadn't seen Wendy since last term, right? 271 00:14:38,185 --> 00:14:40,914 Flying dinosaurs won't get you into Fenady's house. 272 00:14:40,987 --> 00:14:43,217 Did you follow up on the endangering charge? 273 00:14:43,289 --> 00:14:45,484 Yeah, that kid wound up in a foster home... 274 00:14:45,558 --> 00:14:47,788 and the DA chose not to indict Fenady. 275 00:14:47,860 --> 00:14:50,055 Yeah, well, they didn't give her a medal, either. 276 00:14:50,129 --> 00:14:52,495 Let's put her under 24-hour surveillance. 277 00:14:52,565 --> 00:14:56,501 And canvass the neighborhood, maybe someone saw her with the little girl. 278 00:14:57,903 --> 00:15:02,237 She's a very caring person. She even donated money to plant trees. 279 00:15:02,408 --> 00:15:04,534 Well, did you ever see any kids go in there? 280 00:15:04,609 --> 00:15:06,634 All the time. She loves children. 281 00:15:06,711 --> 00:15:09,111 Last year she built a whole playroom upstairs. 282 00:15:09,180 --> 00:15:10,670 You get the full tour? 283 00:15:10,749 --> 00:15:12,910 Yes, she's always remodeling for the kids. 284 00:15:12,984 --> 00:15:16,511 Last month, she had cinder block and cement in front of her house. 285 00:15:16,588 --> 00:15:20,319 Some of the neighbors complained. I said, "Come on, it's for the kids." 286 00:15:20,392 --> 00:15:24,192 Speaking of kids, we're looking for this little girl. She's 10 years old. 287 00:15:24,262 --> 00:15:27,924 Was she around on Monday? Yeah, I think so. 288 00:15:27,998 --> 00:15:30,831 I saw them coming out of the car. 289 00:15:30,901 --> 00:15:33,062 Now, are you positive about that? 290 00:15:33,137 --> 00:15:35,332 I only saw them from the back. 291 00:15:39,176 --> 00:15:41,235 Can't this wait until after I eat my lunch? 292 00:15:41,311 --> 00:15:43,040 It's about a missing child, Your Honor. 293 00:15:43,113 --> 00:15:45,581 We have an eyewitness who saw her with our suspect. 294 00:15:45,649 --> 00:15:48,948 Now, Miss Fenady lied about the last time she saw the child. 295 00:15:49,286 --> 00:15:52,152 That's this thing here about the dinosaur? 296 00:15:52,689 --> 00:15:55,749 Once again, Your Honor, there's a certain urgency here. 297 00:15:56,959 --> 00:15:59,450 Do you want me to read this or not? 298 00:15:59,529 --> 00:16:01,497 No disrespect, Your Honor. 299 00:16:04,067 --> 00:16:08,231 Your eyewitness is a little iffy. I don't wanna start a witch hunt here. 300 00:16:09,038 --> 00:16:12,166 I'm gonna limit you to a look-see warrant. 301 00:16:15,010 --> 00:16:17,672 Mrs. Stavros couldn't have seen Wendy here. 302 00:16:17,746 --> 00:16:22,206 I'm sure she has the day wrong. I had children here Sunday for a workshop. 303 00:16:22,284 --> 00:16:25,253 Well, the school said you were all through with the workshops. 304 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,585 Well, that doesn't mean that I've stopped helping the kids. 305 00:16:28,690 --> 00:16:31,284 Well, what were you doing Monday, Miss Fenady? 306 00:16:31,993 --> 00:16:35,156 I was working on my books. Children's books. 307 00:16:44,805 --> 00:16:46,773 It's better than Romper Room up there. 308 00:16:46,841 --> 00:16:49,969 I'm sorry it's such a mess. I don't come down here much. 309 00:16:50,544 --> 00:16:52,569 There's a storeroom in here. 310 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:54,308 I checked it. 311 00:16:57,485 --> 00:16:59,315 You doing some construction? 312 00:16:59,686 --> 00:17:03,213 The contractor said we needed a wall to support the playroom. 313 00:17:03,857 --> 00:17:07,122 Look, I know you're doing your job, but I'm really worried... 314 00:17:07,193 --> 00:17:10,162 about all the time you're wasting when you could be looking for Wendy. 315 00:17:10,230 --> 00:17:13,393 Just let us worry about Wendy. We'll be in touch. 316 00:17:16,636 --> 00:17:20,037 Well, her concern is touching. You still sure she has her? 317 00:17:20,106 --> 00:17:21,572 I hope you guys found something. 318 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,234 I'm not exactly looking forward to another eight hours out here. 319 00:17:24,309 --> 00:17:26,038 Well, maybe she'll invite you in for tea. 320 00:17:26,111 --> 00:17:27,271 Well, she knows we're around. 321 00:17:27,346 --> 00:17:30,406 You think if she's got the girl stashed somewhere, she's gonna lead us to her? 322 00:17:30,482 --> 00:17:32,143 I don't think she's gonna let the kid starve. 323 00:17:32,217 --> 00:17:33,411 She could already be dead, Lennie. 324 00:17:33,485 --> 00:17:35,510 Yeah, and she could still be in that house, okay? 325 00:17:35,587 --> 00:17:38,556 Well, we just searched the house. We looked around. 326 00:17:40,893 --> 00:17:43,123 That cinder block wall in the basement. 327 00:17:43,195 --> 00:17:46,061 Fenady said it was for a playroom built a year ago. 328 00:17:46,130 --> 00:17:50,066 Now, we got neighbors who saw cinder blocks on the sidewalk a month ago. 329 00:17:50,601 --> 00:17:53,069 You think maybe she's got a Houdini room? 330 00:17:53,738 --> 00:17:58,004 Well, let's find the contractor and see what kind of shoe this lady's building. 331 00:17:58,209 --> 00:18:00,803 Miss Fenady? Real good people. 332 00:18:00,878 --> 00:18:05,076 Most people won't let you use the toilet. She gave us milk and cookies. 333 00:18:05,817 --> 00:18:07,875 You build a bearing wall in her basement? 334 00:18:07,951 --> 00:18:10,613 Those old brownstones are overbuilt as it is. 335 00:18:10,687 --> 00:18:12,382 She didn't need any structural support. 336 00:18:12,455 --> 00:18:13,888 So you never touched the basement? 337 00:18:13,957 --> 00:18:17,017 No. She asked us about maybe putting in a maid's room downstairs. 338 00:18:17,093 --> 00:18:19,721 I gave her an estimate but she never got back to me. 339 00:18:19,796 --> 00:18:22,356 So how long has it been since you actually did work for her? 340 00:18:22,432 --> 00:18:24,297 About eight months ago. 341 00:18:24,367 --> 00:18:26,562 She ordered some materials through me last month. 342 00:18:26,636 --> 00:18:28,467 Cinder blocks? Cement? 343 00:18:28,538 --> 00:18:31,165 Yeah, copper pipes, fixtures, flooring. 344 00:18:31,740 --> 00:18:34,208 All the makings for a nice, cozy hideout. 345 00:18:35,010 --> 00:18:39,037 This woman has dedicated her life to the children of this city. 346 00:18:39,215 --> 00:18:41,911 There is no reason you should be harassing her. 347 00:18:42,184 --> 00:18:45,449 Unless you back off, I'm gonna slap you with an injunction. 348 00:18:45,521 --> 00:18:48,615 Go for it. Any judge will see our actions are consistent... 349 00:18:48,691 --> 00:18:50,522 with a normal police investigation. 350 00:18:50,593 --> 00:18:53,561 You have no idea how destructive your actions are. 351 00:18:54,062 --> 00:18:57,930 Parents come over with their kids, they see police cars parked outside. 352 00:18:58,366 --> 00:19:00,926 Neighbors are calling, asking what's going on. 353 00:19:01,002 --> 00:19:03,197 Miss Fenady's even gotten calls from the media. 354 00:19:03,271 --> 00:19:06,468 Well, Miss Siegal, you have your job and we have ours. 355 00:19:06,708 --> 00:19:09,939 As long as Miss Fenady remains a suspect in the disappearance of a child... 356 00:19:10,011 --> 00:19:12,309 we have no intention of backing off. 357 00:19:13,147 --> 00:19:15,637 That's your line in the sand. Fine. 358 00:19:19,686 --> 00:19:22,519 Nice performance. It is just a performance. 359 00:19:22,589 --> 00:19:24,489 Unless we get some results... 360 00:19:24,558 --> 00:19:26,890 the minute Siegal gets to a judge, school's out. 361 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,396 Well, before she gets an injunction we're going to need another search warrant. 362 00:19:30,464 --> 00:19:32,398 Judge Romney's a defendant's judge. 363 00:19:32,466 --> 00:19:35,731 He might see a second search as part of a pattern of harassment. 364 00:19:35,802 --> 00:19:39,760 Well, how's he going to see Ms. Fenady lying to us about her remodeling? 365 00:19:41,941 --> 00:19:44,034 One last time, Miss Fenady. 366 00:19:45,611 --> 00:19:47,579 What's behind that wall? 367 00:19:47,947 --> 00:19:50,973 I don't know. I wasn't here when they built it. 368 00:19:51,417 --> 00:19:53,282 It's probably nothing. 369 00:19:53,386 --> 00:19:55,718 It could be dead space on the other side but... 370 00:19:55,788 --> 00:19:57,983 no way through that we can find. 371 00:20:03,895 --> 00:20:07,956 Tommy, tell the press to work from the other side of the street, all right? 372 00:20:11,903 --> 00:20:14,167 Strike out up there? Nada. 373 00:20:14,773 --> 00:20:15,831 Anything? 374 00:20:15,907 --> 00:20:19,138 Yeah, the walled-off part of the basement is right under this floor here. 375 00:20:19,210 --> 00:20:23,010 Your warrant specifies you're not allowed to tear anything up. 376 00:20:26,784 --> 00:20:29,582 Miss Fenady, how many other TVs do you have in the house? 377 00:20:29,653 --> 00:20:33,214 Two. One upstairs in my bedroom and one in the playroom. 378 00:20:33,724 --> 00:20:34,850 Really? 379 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:39,420 Then why do you have four lines splitting off from the cable junction here? 380 00:20:47,637 --> 00:20:50,401 This line goes right through the closet floor. 381 00:20:58,381 --> 00:20:59,973 You wanna tell me now? 382 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:19,828 Wendy? 383 00:21:22,337 --> 00:21:23,998 Are you all right? 384 00:21:29,111 --> 00:21:33,137 "Docket number 286721, People v. Arnette Fenady. 385 00:21:33,214 --> 00:21:35,239 "Charges are kidnapping in the second degree... 386 00:21:35,316 --> 00:21:37,307 "custodial interference in the first degree... 387 00:21:37,385 --> 00:21:39,979 "endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree." 388 00:21:40,054 --> 00:21:41,919 How do you plead? Not guilty. 389 00:21:41,989 --> 00:21:45,015 People request that the defendant be held without bail, Your Honor. 390 00:21:45,092 --> 00:21:47,151 My client is not a violent felon. 391 00:21:47,228 --> 00:21:51,062 She abducted a 10-year-old girl off the street and held her in a basement. 392 00:21:51,132 --> 00:21:53,930 We don't want to put the girl at further risk. Your Honor. 393 00:21:54,001 --> 00:21:57,663 Save it, Miss Siegal. I have three of my own. Bail is $250,000. 394 00:21:58,571 --> 00:22:00,937 Aren't you on the wrong side of the plate here, Rose? 395 00:22:01,007 --> 00:22:05,239 I thought children's rights attorneys defended minors, not their abductors. 396 00:22:05,311 --> 00:22:08,906 Sometimes defending an alleged abductor is in the best interest of the child. 397 00:22:08,982 --> 00:22:12,816 Miss Fenady took Wendy without the consent of her legal guardian. 398 00:22:12,886 --> 00:22:14,854 We've got our prima facie case. 399 00:22:15,155 --> 00:22:16,986 If you're looking for a deal here... 400 00:22:17,057 --> 00:22:20,617 Never crossed my mind. I want you to drop the case entirely. 401 00:22:22,528 --> 00:22:25,156 If you'd look past the statutes for a second... 402 00:22:25,230 --> 00:22:28,688 you'd see that Arnette Fenady was trying to save that child. 403 00:22:29,635 --> 00:22:33,127 Do you have any idea what Wendy's life was like before she took her to her home? 404 00:22:33,205 --> 00:22:36,333 Oh, and it was really improved by being stuck in a cellar? 405 00:22:36,408 --> 00:22:39,036 Look, I know this woman would never hurt a child. 406 00:22:39,111 --> 00:22:42,409 If you have any doubts, have your experts talk to her. 407 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,575 Have them talk to Wendy. 408 00:22:44,916 --> 00:22:47,350 I guarantee you'll see the light. 409 00:22:53,691 --> 00:22:57,320 We had pizza with pepperoni, then she showed me to my room. 410 00:22:57,395 --> 00:22:59,920 She said I'd be safe just as long as no one found out. 411 00:22:59,997 --> 00:23:03,057 Did she make you stay in the room the entire time? 412 00:23:03,134 --> 00:23:04,862 No, I came up for a party. 413 00:23:05,135 --> 00:23:06,261 What party? 414 00:23:06,336 --> 00:23:09,169 A birthday party. She had a cake for me. 415 00:23:09,239 --> 00:23:11,639 It was chocolate with 10 candles on it. 416 00:23:11,708 --> 00:23:13,266 It was your birthday? 417 00:23:14,010 --> 00:23:16,001 My birthday's in October. 418 00:23:16,813 --> 00:23:19,941 I'll be 11. This was Crystal's. 419 00:23:22,018 --> 00:23:23,508 Who's Crystal? 420 00:23:23,887 --> 00:23:26,651 I don't know. That's what it said on the cake. 421 00:23:30,726 --> 00:23:33,194 Did Miss Fenady ever hurt you? 422 00:23:33,262 --> 00:23:34,286 No. 423 00:23:36,265 --> 00:23:39,462 We read poems and played games. 424 00:23:41,003 --> 00:23:43,801 Weren't you worried that Beatrice might miss you? 425 00:23:43,939 --> 00:23:47,033 Miss Fenady said I could use the phone. She said I could call. 426 00:23:47,109 --> 00:23:48,337 Did you? 427 00:23:51,579 --> 00:23:54,412 Thank you very much, Wendy. Welcome. 428 00:24:00,588 --> 00:24:03,580 If she were mistreated, I don't think she'd keep it a secret. 429 00:24:03,658 --> 00:24:06,627 So Fenady honestly kidnaps children to save them? 430 00:24:07,028 --> 00:24:08,120 Children? 431 00:24:08,329 --> 00:24:12,197 Well, she did the same thing four years ago. A 6-year-old girl. 432 00:24:13,367 --> 00:24:15,927 Is there a way I could interview Miss Fenady? 433 00:24:16,470 --> 00:24:19,439 It's possible. I don't think her lawyer would object. 434 00:24:21,475 --> 00:24:24,706 Are you sure you don't want your attorney present? 435 00:24:24,778 --> 00:24:26,769 I don't need my attorney. 436 00:24:26,914 --> 00:24:29,542 I don't understand what all the fuss is about. 437 00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:32,344 Wendy was happier with me. Didn't she tell you that? 438 00:24:32,419 --> 00:24:33,818 That's not the point. 439 00:24:33,887 --> 00:24:37,185 Her mother, her foster mother... 440 00:24:37,957 --> 00:24:39,390 they didn't love Wendy. 441 00:24:39,458 --> 00:24:41,824 It's hard for us to know how they felt. 442 00:24:44,363 --> 00:24:46,797 I know how you're supposed to feel. 443 00:24:46,899 --> 00:24:49,390 Have you had those feelings yourself? 444 00:24:51,704 --> 00:24:53,729 God gives people children. 445 00:24:54,307 --> 00:24:56,707 And he sometimes takes them away. 446 00:24:57,743 --> 00:25:00,302 How would you know anything about that? 447 00:25:00,412 --> 00:25:01,709 I don't, but... 448 00:25:02,614 --> 00:25:04,673 I have a feeling that you do. 449 00:25:06,117 --> 00:25:07,914 Did you lose a child? 450 00:25:11,423 --> 00:25:13,414 How old would she be now? 451 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:15,417 Ten? 452 00:25:19,264 --> 00:25:21,959 It must have been very painful for you. 453 00:25:33,077 --> 00:25:35,705 She was nine months old when she died. 454 00:25:36,947 --> 00:25:38,915 You loved her very much. 455 00:25:41,085 --> 00:25:43,053 I'd do anything for her. 456 00:25:43,954 --> 00:25:46,183 Just like you'll do for Wendy. 457 00:25:53,630 --> 00:25:55,621 You know what they did? 458 00:25:56,899 --> 00:25:59,299 Do you know how they treated her? 459 00:26:01,204 --> 00:26:03,832 Nobody treats Crystal that way, nobody. 460 00:26:12,314 --> 00:26:14,782 You know, if you pray hard enough... 461 00:26:16,351 --> 00:26:18,876 sometimes God answers your prayers. 462 00:26:24,126 --> 00:26:25,889 Hell of a world. 463 00:26:25,961 --> 00:26:27,622 If she weren't a fictional character... 464 00:26:27,696 --> 00:26:30,459 you'd want to toss Mary Poppins into the booby hatch. 465 00:26:30,531 --> 00:26:32,795 Your client is mentally ill, Rose. 466 00:26:32,867 --> 00:26:36,667 Why? Because she takes an abused kid off the street and pampers her? 467 00:26:36,737 --> 00:26:39,228 Because she thinks that kid is hers. 468 00:26:39,307 --> 00:26:41,298 I'm trying to help you, Rose. Great. 469 00:26:41,375 --> 00:26:45,141 We lock Fenady in a state hospital, Wendy goes back to another Beatrice Hines. 470 00:26:45,212 --> 00:26:48,978 Whatever happens, Miss Fenady is not going to get custody of the child. 471 00:26:49,050 --> 00:26:51,814 No. But the press gets a whiff of the real story... 472 00:26:51,886 --> 00:26:54,376 maybe we re-examine the foster care system. 473 00:26:54,454 --> 00:26:57,890 Your client is Arnette Fenady, not the needy children of the world. 474 00:26:57,957 --> 00:26:59,549 And I'm representing her... 475 00:26:59,626 --> 00:27:02,652 with all the zealousness required by the Canons of Ethics. 476 00:27:02,729 --> 00:27:04,458 By sacrificing her for a cause? 477 00:27:04,531 --> 00:27:06,522 Hey, I'm going to win this case. 478 00:27:07,534 --> 00:27:11,664 I'll tell Arnette of your generous offer, and I'll see you in court. 479 00:27:19,478 --> 00:27:21,139 Rose Siegal called. 480 00:27:21,380 --> 00:27:25,180 Fenady would rather spend the rest of her life in prison than in a hospital. 481 00:27:25,250 --> 00:27:28,151 I'm sure she was fully apprised by her attorney. 482 00:27:28,220 --> 00:27:31,587 Well, if the woman doesn't want to plead insanity, we can't force her. 483 00:27:31,657 --> 00:27:34,091 Yeah, but we don't have to try her. 484 00:27:34,393 --> 00:27:38,557 Whether she was sane at the time that she committed the crime is for a jury to decide. 485 00:27:38,630 --> 00:27:42,326 But whether she's even competent to stand trial, that's for a judge. 486 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:43,958 We challenge her competency? 487 00:27:44,035 --> 00:27:46,868 If she's delusional, she can't understand the charges against her... 488 00:27:46,938 --> 00:27:49,338 and she can't help in her own defense. 489 00:27:49,474 --> 00:27:51,101 Isn't this her attorney's job? 490 00:27:51,175 --> 00:27:53,769 That attorney is more interested in making a point... 491 00:27:53,845 --> 00:27:55,836 than helping her client. 492 00:27:55,947 --> 00:27:59,781 Miss Fenady is sick. She belongs in a hospital, not in a prison. 493 00:28:04,121 --> 00:28:07,613 Miss Fenady operates in a world of her own making. 494 00:28:07,691 --> 00:28:10,455 A world where she sets the rules. 495 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,654 Does she understand our rules as they apply... 496 00:28:13,730 --> 00:28:15,755 in the legal proceedings against her? 497 00:28:15,832 --> 00:28:17,265 She won't even try. 498 00:28:17,334 --> 00:28:19,302 All that matters to her is her mission... 499 00:28:19,369 --> 00:28:22,497 to rescue a girl she believes is her dead daughter. 500 00:28:22,572 --> 00:28:25,699 Nothing else is relevant, nothing else is real. 501 00:28:25,908 --> 00:28:27,899 Dr. Olivet, in your expert opinion... 502 00:28:27,977 --> 00:28:29,877 is Arnette Fenady capable... 503 00:28:29,945 --> 00:28:32,106 of understanding her trial... 504 00:28:32,581 --> 00:28:34,674 and assisting in her own defense? 505 00:28:34,784 --> 00:28:36,513 No. She's not. 506 00:28:37,486 --> 00:28:38,976 Thank you, Doctor. 507 00:28:39,955 --> 00:28:41,820 When you interviewed Miss Fenady... 508 00:28:41,891 --> 00:28:43,290 did she know who you were? 509 00:28:43,359 --> 00:28:45,520 She knew I was a psychiatrist, yes. 510 00:28:45,795 --> 00:28:47,456 Does she know who I am? 511 00:28:47,530 --> 00:28:50,327 She knows. I just don't think she cares. 512 00:28:51,132 --> 00:28:53,157 Isn't there a difference, Dr. Olivet... 513 00:28:53,234 --> 00:28:57,466 between believing the law is irrelevant and believing it is wrong? 514 00:28:57,539 --> 00:28:58,631 Of course. 515 00:28:59,007 --> 00:29:03,501 And is a person who believes the law is wrong incompetent to stand trial? 516 00:29:04,712 --> 00:29:08,045 That depends on the person. Let's take Miss Fenady, then. 517 00:29:08,349 --> 00:29:10,839 Doesn't she believe the law is wrong... 518 00:29:11,318 --> 00:29:15,220 because it fails to protect children while prosecuting those who do? 519 00:29:15,289 --> 00:29:17,757 That's part of her belief system, yes. 520 00:29:17,858 --> 00:29:21,624 And isn't she capable of articulating that belief to you... 521 00:29:22,095 --> 00:29:25,030 to me, to a judge, to a jury? 522 00:29:27,768 --> 00:29:28,996 Yes. 523 00:29:31,805 --> 00:29:34,272 And you are a board-certified psychiatrist? 524 00:29:34,340 --> 00:29:37,434 Yes. I'm on the staff of Manhattan Hospital. 525 00:29:37,844 --> 00:29:40,836 And you examined Arnette Fenady at my request. 526 00:29:41,047 --> 00:29:42,036 Yes. 527 00:29:42,148 --> 00:29:45,777 I found her to be passionate about the well-being of children. 528 00:29:45,885 --> 00:29:49,184 Does she hear voices that tell her how to behave? 529 00:29:49,388 --> 00:29:52,551 No. She decides how to behave. 530 00:29:52,625 --> 00:29:54,525 In your expert opinion, Doctor... 531 00:29:54,594 --> 00:29:57,824 does Miss Fenady understand the nature of these proceedings... 532 00:29:57,896 --> 00:29:59,727 and the charges against her? 533 00:29:59,865 --> 00:30:02,993 She not only understands them, she welcomes them... 534 00:30:03,068 --> 00:30:06,697 as a means to raise public awareness of the problems of children. 535 00:30:06,771 --> 00:30:08,102 Thank you. 536 00:30:09,140 --> 00:30:13,167 Doctor, did Miss Fenady decide to break the law? 537 00:30:13,345 --> 00:30:15,006 I believe she did. 538 00:30:17,215 --> 00:30:20,911 And did she decide to mistake Wendy for her dead daughter? 539 00:30:21,018 --> 00:30:22,918 Her belief is figurative... 540 00:30:22,987 --> 00:30:26,115 an extension of her passion to save children. 541 00:30:26,557 --> 00:30:29,993 You are familiar with the interview with Dr. Olivet, correct? 542 00:30:30,060 --> 00:30:32,858 Where she repeatedly mistook Wendy for Crystal? 543 00:30:32,930 --> 00:30:37,196 She identifies the suffering of other children with that of her own daughter. 544 00:30:37,434 --> 00:30:38,833 It doesn't make her delusional. 545 00:30:38,903 --> 00:30:43,805 But if, in fact, Miss Fenady mistook Wendy for her dead daughter... 546 00:30:43,873 --> 00:30:47,400 what is to prevent her from mistaking any other 10-year-old... 547 00:30:47,610 --> 00:30:48,770 for her dead child? 548 00:30:48,845 --> 00:30:53,077 By definition, Mr. Stone, a delusional person will have delusions. 549 00:30:53,249 --> 00:30:55,945 I just don't think that's the case here. 550 00:30:59,756 --> 00:31:03,089 Arnette, do you know what you are charged with? 551 00:31:04,494 --> 00:31:05,892 Kidnapping. 552 00:31:06,595 --> 00:31:08,119 I rescued Wendy, Your Honor... 553 00:31:08,196 --> 00:31:11,461 Just answer your attorney's questions, Miss Fenady. 554 00:31:13,602 --> 00:31:15,536 The charge is kidnapping. 555 00:31:15,637 --> 00:31:18,697 But I intend to prove that I did nothing wrong. 556 00:31:19,207 --> 00:31:21,539 How do you intend to prove that? 557 00:31:21,843 --> 00:31:24,175 With a trial in public. 558 00:31:25,581 --> 00:31:27,845 Then, everyone will know the truth. 559 00:31:28,683 --> 00:31:31,516 But you know that you could go to jail. 560 00:31:33,087 --> 00:31:34,486 Could. Yes. 561 00:31:36,724 --> 00:31:39,056 Do you understand what my function is? 562 00:31:39,126 --> 00:31:40,855 You're my attorney. 563 00:31:41,162 --> 00:31:43,790 Your job is to make sure that I get a fair trial... 564 00:31:43,864 --> 00:31:46,298 to prove that I did nothing wrong. 565 00:31:47,468 --> 00:31:48,833 Nothing further. 566 00:31:49,070 --> 00:31:50,560 Miss Fenady... 567 00:31:50,638 --> 00:31:53,470 you don't think that you did anything wrong... 568 00:31:53,607 --> 00:31:56,440 because it was the will of God, correct? 569 00:31:57,611 --> 00:32:02,378 I believe it is God's will that children not be neglected or abused. 570 00:32:04,884 --> 00:32:06,977 Especially your own child? 571 00:32:10,323 --> 00:32:12,484 My child died 10 years ago. 572 00:32:13,659 --> 00:32:16,560 I did what I did to help Wendy. 573 00:32:20,199 --> 00:32:24,966 I have no doubt that the defendant suffers from a colorful... 574 00:32:25,070 --> 00:32:27,766 assortment of psychological problems. 575 00:32:28,273 --> 00:32:31,504 But that's all they are, problems. 576 00:32:32,344 --> 00:32:37,042 Therefore, I am not convinced under Section 730... 577 00:32:37,682 --> 00:32:40,742 that the defendant is an incapacitated person. 578 00:32:42,220 --> 00:32:45,212 The criminal action against Arnette Fenady... 579 00:32:45,289 --> 00:32:46,620 is to proceed. 580 00:32:55,033 --> 00:32:57,058 If the judge could have heard the way... 581 00:32:57,135 --> 00:32:58,397 Fenady talked to Olivet. 582 00:32:58,469 --> 00:33:02,370 Yeah, well even psychos can act normal when it serves their purpose. 583 00:33:02,439 --> 00:33:04,373 The judge had to go with what she saw. 584 00:33:04,441 --> 00:33:07,535 Not to mention their expert cancelled our expert. 585 00:33:07,611 --> 00:33:10,637 Rose Siegal must be pleased. Her issue's all over the papers... 586 00:33:10,714 --> 00:33:13,512 and she'll have a martyr to the cause when her client goes to jail. 587 00:33:13,583 --> 00:33:15,312 Yeah, if we convict. 588 00:33:15,385 --> 00:33:17,819 I'm not even sure I still want to prosecute. 589 00:33:17,888 --> 00:33:19,549 You want that fruitcake on the street? 590 00:33:19,623 --> 00:33:21,614 I want her in a hospital, sir. 591 00:33:21,758 --> 00:33:24,783 Well, that option went away. Judge ruled against you. 592 00:33:24,860 --> 00:33:26,885 I can still try to cut a deal. 593 00:33:28,764 --> 00:33:31,198 I'll drop it to unlawful imprisonment. 594 00:33:31,267 --> 00:33:34,998 You can drop it to a building permit violation for all I care. 595 00:33:35,071 --> 00:33:37,301 She's not guilty. She needs help, Rose. 596 00:33:37,373 --> 00:33:39,933 No, Ben, the children of New York need help. 597 00:33:40,009 --> 00:33:42,341 Without an insanity defense, you don't have a case. 598 00:33:42,411 --> 00:33:45,141 All I have to do is seat one mother on the jury. 599 00:33:45,213 --> 00:33:47,977 You can play the heartstrings all you like, but the fact remains... 600 00:33:48,049 --> 00:33:51,348 that your client took Wendy Sylvester off the street, held her in a place... 601 00:33:51,419 --> 00:33:55,378 that she was not likely to be found. Read the statute. That's kidnapping. 602 00:34:00,161 --> 00:34:04,393 For the past two years, Wendy's legal guardian has been Beatrice Hines. 603 00:34:04,733 --> 00:34:07,600 But at any time did the defendant ever... 604 00:34:07,936 --> 00:34:11,701 have custody, guardianship, or any legal right... 605 00:34:11,805 --> 00:34:14,205 or authority over Wendy Sylvester? 606 00:34:14,274 --> 00:34:15,332 No. 607 00:34:15,409 --> 00:34:19,175 Now, when Wendy was under the care of Beatrice Hines... 608 00:34:19,246 --> 00:34:23,376 did you ever hear complaints about Wendy being abused? 609 00:34:25,185 --> 00:34:27,779 Wendy's homeroom teacher called Children's Services. 610 00:34:27,855 --> 00:34:30,722 She said that Wendy was coming to school with bruises. 611 00:34:30,791 --> 00:34:34,556 We investigated and took what we considered to be appropriate action. 612 00:34:34,627 --> 00:34:38,723 Did anyone else from the school ever contact you about her condition? 613 00:34:38,798 --> 00:34:42,165 The school nurse, about the same time as the teacher. 614 00:34:43,436 --> 00:34:45,666 But what about Arnette Fenady? 615 00:34:46,139 --> 00:34:49,006 Did she ever voice her concern to you... 616 00:34:49,108 --> 00:34:51,474 about the condition of Wendy Sylvester? 617 00:34:51,978 --> 00:34:55,777 Until she was arrested, I had never heard Miss Fenady's name. 618 00:34:57,282 --> 00:34:58,613 Thank you. 619 00:34:59,317 --> 00:35:00,784 Your witness. 620 00:35:01,953 --> 00:35:06,322 Your investigation of Wendy's case found that she had been beaten... 621 00:35:07,058 --> 00:35:08,923 that she was left unattended... 622 00:35:08,994 --> 00:35:11,986 unfed, unbathed, barely clothed. 623 00:35:12,063 --> 00:35:13,963 Is that correct? Yes. 624 00:35:14,533 --> 00:35:17,433 And what is this appropriate action that you took? 625 00:35:17,768 --> 00:35:19,998 Miss Hines' male companion was arrested... 626 00:35:20,070 --> 00:35:22,800 and placed under judicial order to stay away from Wendy. 627 00:35:22,873 --> 00:35:24,397 Was that order effective? 628 00:35:24,475 --> 00:35:25,703 I don't know. 629 00:35:25,776 --> 00:35:28,939 Why didn't you move Wendy to a safer environment? 630 00:35:29,079 --> 00:35:31,980 Suitable households are hard to find. It takes time. 631 00:35:32,082 --> 00:35:33,344 So while you looked... 632 00:35:33,417 --> 00:35:36,409 your appropriate action was to leave this 10-year-old girl... 633 00:35:36,487 --> 00:35:38,512 in an unsuitable household? 634 00:35:39,089 --> 00:35:40,521 You have to understand... 635 00:35:40,590 --> 00:35:42,990 compared to a lot of the cases that we handle... 636 00:35:43,059 --> 00:35:45,459 Wendy Sylvester was relatively well-off. 637 00:35:45,528 --> 00:35:46,722 Really? 638 00:35:48,464 --> 00:35:49,863 Thank you. 639 00:35:52,035 --> 00:35:54,367 No, I never met Miss Fenady in person. 640 00:35:54,437 --> 00:35:57,497 She called the house a bunch of times to talk to Wendy. 641 00:35:57,774 --> 00:36:00,208 She sounded like a weirdo. Objection. 642 00:36:00,310 --> 00:36:01,675 Sustained. 643 00:36:01,978 --> 00:36:04,707 Jury will disregard that last remark. 644 00:36:05,447 --> 00:36:09,383 Did Miss Fenady ever tell you why she wanted to talk with Wendy? 645 00:36:09,785 --> 00:36:12,185 Yeah. She said it was about her poetry... 646 00:36:12,254 --> 00:36:14,882 but I think she was calling to check up on us. 647 00:36:15,157 --> 00:36:17,250 Miss Hines, why do you say that? 648 00:36:17,326 --> 00:36:20,784 Because one time, she just ragged on the way I was raising Wendy. 649 00:36:20,863 --> 00:36:23,388 She said that I wasn't fit to be a mother. 650 00:36:23,498 --> 00:36:27,490 But did you ever, at any time, give Arnette Fenady permission... 651 00:36:27,702 --> 00:36:28,999 to take Wendy? 652 00:36:29,070 --> 00:36:30,469 No. Never. 653 00:36:31,539 --> 00:36:33,097 Fine. Thank you. 654 00:36:35,509 --> 00:36:39,411 Miss Hines, how many times have you left Wendy alone all night? 655 00:36:39,780 --> 00:36:42,180 I work nights. I got no choice. 656 00:36:42,583 --> 00:36:44,676 Fair to say it was more times than you can count? 657 00:36:44,752 --> 00:36:47,312 Look, she's a smart one. She can take care of herself. 658 00:36:47,388 --> 00:36:51,414 But you didn't even know she was missing until the police notified you. 659 00:36:53,326 --> 00:36:56,056 What do you expect from me? I gotta work. 660 00:36:58,265 --> 00:36:59,926 No more questions. 661 00:37:01,034 --> 00:37:03,594 Court will recess until tomorrow morning. 662 00:37:04,804 --> 00:37:07,796 We set them up, Siegal just knocks them down. 663 00:37:07,974 --> 00:37:10,499 I doubt if Wendy will fall as easily. 664 00:37:10,577 --> 00:37:13,636 I have one more prep session with her this evening. 665 00:37:15,581 --> 00:37:18,641 When I got into the car, she told me to lie down. 666 00:37:18,717 --> 00:37:20,912 Then she put a blanket over me. 667 00:37:22,521 --> 00:37:24,216 Did she say why? 668 00:37:24,290 --> 00:37:26,758 She said that Brian was looking for me... 669 00:37:27,526 --> 00:37:29,460 and that he wanted to hurt me. 670 00:37:29,795 --> 00:37:32,730 And you believed her? He hurt me before. 671 00:37:33,966 --> 00:37:36,661 You know, what happened when you got to her house? 672 00:37:36,734 --> 00:37:38,759 You already asked me that. 673 00:37:39,804 --> 00:37:41,396 Can we stop now? 674 00:37:42,874 --> 00:37:45,308 Okay. I guess we've done enough. 675 00:37:50,381 --> 00:37:53,316 How old were you when you decided to become a lawyer? 676 00:37:53,384 --> 00:37:56,944 I don't know. Maybe in high school. 677 00:37:59,189 --> 00:38:00,952 Bet you had all A's. 678 00:38:01,725 --> 00:38:04,193 No, I got B's in Art. 679 00:38:06,296 --> 00:38:11,063 I want to be a writer. Or maybe a scientist, like a paleontologist. 680 00:38:14,004 --> 00:38:15,869 Anything but a mother. 681 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,301 Having kids sucks. 682 00:38:22,979 --> 00:38:24,674 You know, Wendy... 683 00:38:26,248 --> 00:38:28,682 it doesn't always have to be that way. 684 00:38:31,253 --> 00:38:35,155 So after I answer all those questions tomorrow, what'll happen? 685 00:38:35,958 --> 00:38:39,325 The jury will decide if Miss Fenady did anything wrong. 686 00:38:42,831 --> 00:38:44,799 And if they say she did? 687 00:38:45,133 --> 00:38:47,431 That'll be up to the judge. 688 00:38:50,705 --> 00:38:52,536 I was at the laundry. 689 00:38:52,874 --> 00:38:55,434 It's my job to do the laundry for Beatrice. 690 00:38:55,543 --> 00:38:57,841 And did you finish the laundry? 691 00:38:59,180 --> 00:39:00,306 No. 692 00:39:01,549 --> 00:39:03,414 I went to Miss Fenady. 693 00:39:13,494 --> 00:39:14,722 Wendy... 694 00:39:15,929 --> 00:39:18,295 let's back up a little bit here. 695 00:39:18,899 --> 00:39:22,096 Before you got to Miss Fenady's, what happened? 696 00:39:24,238 --> 00:39:26,001 I was on the subway. 697 00:39:32,512 --> 00:39:35,106 Your Honor, permission to lead the witness. 698 00:39:35,181 --> 00:39:36,842 Objection, Your Honor. 699 00:39:36,916 --> 00:39:40,352 I'm going to allow some latitude on this, Miss Siegal. 700 00:39:44,957 --> 00:39:47,824 Wendy, do you remember telling the police... 701 00:39:47,894 --> 00:39:51,954 that Miss Fenady picked you up in a car at the laundromat? 702 00:39:52,798 --> 00:39:53,822 No. 703 00:39:54,933 --> 00:39:57,993 I took the subway. I was running away. 704 00:40:00,172 --> 00:40:03,369 Miss Fenady said I could stay as long as I wanted. 705 00:40:04,476 --> 00:40:06,307 Wendy, isn't it true... 706 00:40:06,578 --> 00:40:09,547 that Miss Fenady drove you to her home... 707 00:40:09,614 --> 00:40:11,741 and locked you in an underground room? 708 00:40:11,817 --> 00:40:13,842 Your Honor, the District Attorney gets... 709 00:40:13,919 --> 00:40:16,682 to ask the questions not answer them. 710 00:40:17,555 --> 00:40:20,251 She's right, Mr. Stone. That's enough. 711 00:40:24,762 --> 00:40:26,855 Can we adjourn to chambers, Your Honor? 712 00:40:27,798 --> 00:40:29,356 She lied, Your Honor. Why? 713 00:40:29,433 --> 00:40:31,628 Because she's not saying what you want to hear? 714 00:40:31,702 --> 00:40:34,330 Because she's saying what you want her to say. 715 00:40:34,405 --> 00:40:37,067 If you're accusing Miss Siegal of subornation, counselor... 716 00:40:37,141 --> 00:40:39,165 you're gonna need a little more proof. 717 00:40:39,242 --> 00:40:41,642 Your Honor, Wendy told me numerous times in prep... 718 00:40:41,711 --> 00:40:43,645 that Miss Fenady picked her up in her car... 719 00:40:43,713 --> 00:40:46,045 covered her with a blanket so no one could see... 720 00:40:46,116 --> 00:40:47,845 and took her to her house. 721 00:40:48,852 --> 00:40:53,255 That might make her the first kid ever to tell a fib to please an adult. 722 00:40:53,623 --> 00:40:55,488 Your Honor, if I could just talk with her. 723 00:40:55,558 --> 00:41:00,119 Be my guest, if you want to be disbarred for tampering with a witness. 724 00:41:00,195 --> 00:41:02,459 She's still on the stand. It's okay, Your Honor. 725 00:41:02,531 --> 00:41:04,761 If Mr. Stone is finished questioning Wendy... 726 00:41:04,833 --> 00:41:07,461 I certainly don't plan on cross-examining her. 727 00:41:08,637 --> 00:41:10,400 Talk all you like. 728 00:41:11,140 --> 00:41:14,234 Wendy, I know you know the difference between a truth and a lie... 729 00:41:14,309 --> 00:41:16,641 and what you did in court was lie. 730 00:41:17,713 --> 00:41:19,772 You told me what really happened. 731 00:41:19,848 --> 00:41:22,248 I said Miss Fenady never hurt me. 732 00:41:22,551 --> 00:41:24,279 Not like Brian did. 733 00:41:24,819 --> 00:41:26,411 But you want to put her in jail. 734 00:41:26,487 --> 00:41:28,580 No, we want to get her help, Wendy. 735 00:41:28,656 --> 00:41:30,817 You think she's crazy. Why? 736 00:41:30,892 --> 00:41:34,157 Because she took care of me? Because she wants to adopt me? 737 00:41:34,362 --> 00:41:36,990 She told you that's what she wants to do? 738 00:41:37,064 --> 00:41:38,122 Yeah. 739 00:41:39,634 --> 00:41:42,432 But she's gotta be nuts to want me, right? 740 00:41:42,603 --> 00:41:45,867 No, Wendy, she's gotta be nuts to think you're not Wendy... 741 00:41:46,406 --> 00:41:48,306 to think you're someone else. 742 00:41:50,877 --> 00:41:53,072 Surprised by our own witness, the victim. 743 00:41:53,146 --> 00:41:55,137 The jury's wondering what the hell we're doing. 744 00:41:55,215 --> 00:41:56,580 You said she was prepared. 745 00:41:56,650 --> 00:41:59,983 It isn't Claire's fault. The girl willfully committed perjury. 746 00:42:00,053 --> 00:42:02,521 So what do we do, indict a 10-year-old? 747 00:42:02,789 --> 00:42:05,781 We could put her back on the stand and treat her as a hostile witness. 748 00:42:05,859 --> 00:42:07,850 And the jury sees us putting words in her mouth. 749 00:42:07,928 --> 00:42:09,690 Rose Siegal is gonna love that. 750 00:42:09,762 --> 00:42:12,026 Might as well send a car and drive Fenady home. 751 00:42:12,097 --> 00:42:15,533 It's not fatal. We established our case with the other witnesses. 752 00:42:15,601 --> 00:42:19,867 And the jury remembers that, after they wipe the tears from their eyes. 753 00:42:24,276 --> 00:42:28,007 Wendy Sylvester was passed on by a mother who didn't care... 754 00:42:29,481 --> 00:42:32,176 and passed over by a system that should have. 755 00:42:34,085 --> 00:42:36,986 Arnette Fenady could not watch this neglect. 756 00:42:37,255 --> 00:42:40,053 She believed that Wendy would not survive. 757 00:42:41,459 --> 00:42:44,519 Rather than turn a blind eye, she did what, I believe... 758 00:42:44,596 --> 00:42:47,394 most of us have the urge to do, get involved. 759 00:42:48,466 --> 00:42:51,924 The law provides for the Arnette Fenadys of this world. 760 00:42:52,370 --> 00:42:56,203 It allows that otherwise illegal conduct is justified... 761 00:42:56,540 --> 00:42:59,703 if it saves a child's life. 762 00:43:05,148 --> 00:43:09,380 She could have called the police, but instead she lied to them. 763 00:43:11,188 --> 00:43:14,680 She could have called Children's Services, but instead... 764 00:43:15,859 --> 00:43:17,485 she evaded them. 765 00:43:17,893 --> 00:43:21,727 So Miss Fenady's so-called good intentions... 766 00:43:21,797 --> 00:43:24,493 were, in fact, just deceit. 767 00:43:27,270 --> 00:43:31,229 Fortunately, no harm came to Wendy Sylvester. 768 00:43:33,009 --> 00:43:35,204 But what about the next time? 769 00:43:36,946 --> 00:43:39,574 We live in a society bounded by law... 770 00:43:39,915 --> 00:43:43,406 and there is a system, and it does work. Not perfectly... 771 00:43:44,052 --> 00:43:45,781 and not in every case. 772 00:43:46,521 --> 00:43:48,284 But those of you... 773 00:43:49,090 --> 00:43:52,685 who care for children, you must ask yourself this question: 774 00:43:52,961 --> 00:43:57,022 Do you want the Arnette Fenadys of this world... 775 00:43:57,932 --> 00:44:01,231 to judge the quality of that care? 776 00:44:02,170 --> 00:44:05,195 And if she judges that care as lacking... 777 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:09,942 and your child is removed and hidden from you... 778 00:44:10,344 --> 00:44:14,576 to whom do you appeal that judgment? 779 00:44:26,292 --> 00:44:28,487 As to the first count of the indictment... 780 00:44:28,561 --> 00:44:31,655 kidnapping in the second degree, how do you find? 781 00:44:31,731 --> 00:44:33,096 "Not guilty." 782 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,165 As to the second count... 783 00:44:35,234 --> 00:44:38,533 custodial interference in the first degree, how do you find? 784 00:44:38,604 --> 00:44:39,866 "Not guilty." 785 00:44:40,273 --> 00:44:43,834 As to the final count, endangering the welfare of a child... 786 00:44:43,910 --> 00:44:44,934 how do you find? 787 00:44:45,011 --> 00:44:46,376 "Not guilty." 788 00:44:50,215 --> 00:44:51,807 So say you all? 789 00:44:53,385 --> 00:44:54,545 Court is adjourned. 790 00:45:02,728 --> 00:45:05,754 Arnette Fenady applied for custody of Wendy Sylvester. 791 00:45:05,864 --> 00:45:09,925 She must be crazier than we thought. No way a court grants her application. 792 00:45:10,469 --> 00:45:13,460 No way she was supposed to be acquitted, either. 793 00:45:13,671 --> 00:45:16,469 What kind of mother could she possibly be? 794 00:45:18,008 --> 00:45:20,203 For Wendy's sake, I hope a good one.