Court hearing on defamation claim involving alleged abuse reports and massage room allegations

10 id. 12 13 14 L5 16 ne) 18 life) 20 21 22 23 24 25 131 H3vlgiu2 THE COURT: What's next? MR. CASSELL: The motion on Kellen and Marcinkova, our motion to get in adverse inferenc THI Gi COURT: Yes. MR. CASSELL: If I can be heard on that, your Honor. THI ES COURT: Excuse me. Let me go back to where we were. Those statements, the statements of the "victims," are being offered for the truth, are they not? MS. McCAWLEY: Your Honor, I do not believe they'r being offered for the truth because what we're saying -- we're not saying whether or not what those victims said was necessarily true. We're saying was she aware that there were a number -- and they take issue with the number. I don't see a difference between 17 and 30. But was she aware that there were a number of other individuals making reports at the time she said my client must have been lying about being abused as a minor. So whether or not those are true or not, the reports, was she aware that there were a number of reports out there from other little girls saying that they were also brought to the massage room. And that goes to her state of mind at the time she made that statement where she defames my client internationally. THE COURT: Yes. But aware of the reports. How could she be aware of the reports? Aware of the girls and the SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011434