F. Walker: Thank you for coming today, Mrs. Jung. Could you please tell me how long you have known Mr. & Mrs. Harris?

D. Jung: I've known them since I was nine years old.

F. Walker: If you don't mind me asking, could you please tell me how old you are now?

D. Jung: I've just turned 29 this year.

F. Walker: Wow so you have known them for 20 years.

D. Jung: I would say maybe 10 years. I did not stay in contact with them after they no longer had Jillian.

F. Walker: How would you describe Mr. & Mrs. Harris?

D. Jung: Mr. Harris was a drunk. He was mean and cruel, he often belittled Mrs. Harris and Jillian in my presence. Mrs. Harris, well, she wasn't mean or anything like that, she totally just acted like Jillian wasn't even there.

F. Walker: Can you tell me your relationship with Jillian?

D. Jung: She had been like a sister since the 4th grade. There wasn't anything I didn't know about her or her about me. She was funny and so smart, but she had a hard time making friends outside of me. As we grew older, she started to come out of her shell more and branched out to more people up until she was forced to move in with Ashton and Christine.

F. Walker: Can you tell me how she handled that change?

D. Jung: She was terrified. She wanted to stay with her parents despite all of the hardships she was going through with them. She ran away several times, only to be taken back to the couple. Once she showed up at my window at one in the morning, clothes ripped, her face battered and bruised. That's when she finally told me what was going on in that house. I forced her to come with me to her parent's house so we could show them and they would take her back home, but they didn't.

F. Walker: What happened?

D. Jung: They called her a liar and told her not to come back.

F. Walker: Did she try to see them again afterward?

D. Jung: Several times with the same results.

F. Walker: No further questions, your honor.

H. Hall: Good afternoon, Mrs. Jung, how are you feeling today?

D. Jung: I'm good. Thank you.

H. Hall: You recently had a baby right, Mrs. Jung?

D. Jung: Yes, a little girl, she just turned a month yesterday.

H. Hall: Congratulations. I bet she's adorable. Have your parents and Mr. Jung's parents met her?

D. Jung: Yes, of course, they have.

H. Hall: So you feel it's important for children to have a relationship with their grandparents?

D. Jung: I feel it's important for my child to have a relationship with her grandparents. But in the case of-.

H. Hall: And why do you think it's important for your child to have a relationship with her grandparents?

D. Jung: Because mine and Hobi's parents are loving and kind and can offer another form of love to my daughter.

H. Hall: Don't you believe Jillian would want that type of love for her daughter too?

D. Jung: Yes, but not-.

H. Hall: Thank you, no further questions.

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F. Walker: Hello Mr. Min, thank you for coming in this morning.

Y. Min: It's no problem, I'd do anything for Jillian.

F. Walker: Why is that?

Y. Min: She's my person, my other half.

F. Walker: It sounds like the two of you were very close.

Y. Min: We are. I mean, we were. She was my soulmate.

F. Walker: I'm very sorry for your loss, Mr. Min. I know Jillian confided in you, can you please tell me about the search for her parents?

Y. Min: Well, it all started late one night. That girl had a knack for getting herself in weird situations. I had been called to pick her up from the cemetery, her and a few of our friends were playing hide and seek. When I had finally found her and got her into the car, I could tell something was up. She was fidgety and nervous so we went back to my studio to talk. She told me she wanted to find her parents and I was totally against it.

F. Walker: Why were you against it?

Y. Min: Because they are terrible people, they gave her away and never once looked for her or tried to help her. But she wanted to close that chapter of her life so she could move on and be happy with the person she loved.

F. Walker: So you helped her. Then what happened?

Y. Min: Once I had found their address, we hopped on a plane and flew out to them. She refused to let me go with her to meet them so I stayed back at the hotel, I'll always regret it.

F. Walker: Why?

Y. Min: Because they broke her. She had worked so hard to move on from her past. She was bright and sassy and super stubborn, but the girl who walked back to the hotel in the pouring rain wasn't the Jillian I had come to know. They had only seen her for an hour and in that short time, they had managed to ruin all the progress she had made. She was again that broken and beaten girl I had first met.

F. Walker: Did she tell you what happened when she met them again?

Y. Min: She did, between her choked-out cries in the bathroom. She told me her mother said she was a mistake, that she wished she had never had her, and if they wanted a relationship with her they would have reached out after Ashton and Christine were arrested the first time. And when her piece of shit of a father showed up, he kicked her out of the house because he didn't want to explain to his sons who she was.

F. Walker: One last question, Mr. Min. After this situation, did she ever bring up her parents again or express an interest in seeing them again?

Y. Min: Never. She had decided to let them go. We had a long talk about it when she was midway through her pregnancy. She was scared of becoming a parent, afraid that she would be like them. After a lot of reassurance, she made me promise to never let them near her or her family again.

F. Walker: Thank you, no further questions.

H. Hall: Mr. Min, you have stated that Mrs. Jeon made you promise to never let her parents around her or her family. But you have been known to lie, no?

Y. Min: Everyone lies. But I would never lie to or about Jillian.

H. Hall: Didn't you, though? Did you not in fact lie about knowing Jillian and her struggles? Did you not befriend her under the ruse of helping her?

Y. Min: You don't know what you're talking about.

H. Hall: Did you not use her own trauma to manipulate her into trusting you? Who's to say that you are not lying now about what happened that day? There is no one who can verify your story.

Y. Min: How dare you, lady. I did lie to Jillian about knowing her and that was our issue and we solved it and moved past that. I would never lie about this. I sat in that bathroom for hours, trying to keep her warm in my arms, as she clutched onto me in her soaked clothes, as a part of her heart broke. I listened to her cry until her voice was raw and her breathing was labored all because those two decided she wasn't good enough. I may have lied to her in the beginning, but I never did again and I swear on everything I am that she would never want those two poor excuses of people in her daughter's life.

H. Hall: No further questions, your Honor.

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