Page 99 of Shattered

“Overruled, Mr. Walker, I agree with District Attorney Franks,” the judge replied. “You opened this can of worms, might as well see what crawls out. Continue.”

“Hayden, you spoke about an incident of cheating, do you know a Justine Gabbles?”

“Yeah, now I do,” she answered.

“Your Honor, we have entered the affidavit of Justine Gabbles who came forward after she heard about this case. If we would have been able to do this last week, we could have proved everything the defense said was a lie. The Affidavit explains how one Holly Geithner approached Miss Gabbles at a difficult time in her life. She states under oath that the plan Miss Geithner concocted was to get Nico Lopez drunk and have sex with him. Miss Gabbles was supposed to take pictures and give them to Miss Geithner. Instead, what happened, Your Honor, is Hayden Raferty showed up.”

“I read the affidavit, and I approved it being added to the list of evidence,” the judge said. “Is Miss Gabbles available to testify, so she can be cross examined?”

“Yes, Your Honor.”

“Good,” Judge Wright stated. “Proceed.”

“Hayden let’s pick up where we left off. Let’s talk about your first kidnapping. Okay?”

“Sure,” Hayden answered.

“Can you tell me what this is?” He produced the evidence bag Kalkin had brought with him to the meeting the day before and opened it, pulling out the smaller bag the IUD had been in.

“Yes, that would be a copper IUD found inside of me and removed,” Hayden answered.

“Do you know who put it into you?” Charles asked.

She shook her head. “No. I was kidnapped at five years old. I was brought to this place...” She shook her head. “My aunt and Deputy Logan Wagner found me.”

“And, when did you figure out you had something inside of you, this... IUD?”

“Thanksgiving. Danielle Raferty did a full body scan and found an anomaly,” Hayden said. “Then did she surgery. She pulled the little thing out of me.”

“Objection, Your Honor,” Mr. Walker said. “An anomaly that happens to also be an apparent IUD?”

“Is there something you’re objecting to besides the IUD?” Judge Wright asked.

“Well, yes. How do we know it came out of Hayden? How do we know where it came from? How do we know when it was placed? For all we know your honor, Hayden Raferty put herself on this type of birth control and never told anyone.”

“Overruled,” the judge said. “Again, we went over the specifics of this item and the attached information in chambers. Unless you have proof, she did this after the fact, you are haranguing the court.”

“Were you ever kidnapped again?”

Hayden nodded. “I was. I’d been here, in Window Rock, for about six months, and I was taken outside of the high school as I was walking home.”

“Who found you?”

She grinned. “Nico Lopez did, along with my fathers and my uncles.”

“While you were with your kidnappers the second time, do you remember being examined internally or worse, sexually assaulted?”

“No,” she answered. “I was with them for less than eight hours. Nico gave me a tracker charm, so he was able to find me.”

“So, there was no way for this IUD to be placed within you at that time?” DA Franks pressed.

“No.”

“And you didn’t have it done at a later date?” Charles pressed.

“No,” Hayden answered. “I didn’t have any reason to do so.”

They continued to go back and forth about her kidnappings, before Charles asked her, “When did you realize something was wrong with you reproductively?”

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