Pontiac: A district court judge rejected two $6,500 small claims petitions on Wednesday that involved a transgender woman who had her surgically removed testicles stored in her ex-boyfriend’s freezer for months.
After hearing evidence from Brianna Kingsley, 40, and her 37-year-old ex, William Wojciechowski, Judge Jeremy Bowie ruled that “it’s a wash” during an intractable small claims hearing in Pontiac’s 50th District Court.
In August, Kingsley submitted a handwritten small claims petition claiming that Wojciechowski “retains possession of my surgically extracted testicles, preserved in (a) Mason jar, kept in [the] fridge next to the eggs.” Demand the immediate return of my sample of human remains and the $6,500 in damages.
Wojciechowski asserted in a suit that he had been “humiliated” by publicity of the case by “worldwide news shops” and demanded $6,500 in damages.
Both claims were refuted by Bowie, whose decision on Wednesday cannot be appealed. According to the judge, Kingsley had the chance to find her ovaries back in January 2023 when a deputy for the Oakland County Sheriff accompanied her to Wojciechowski’s Pontiac residence.
Kingsley had just been released from the Oakland County Jail, where she had been held for three days and fined $100 for breaking a personal protection order Wojciechowski had filed against her, when the deputy escorted her to the house.
In circumstances like that, the prosecutor said, “we allow people to go back to find their belongings after a one-time visit with the sheriff’s agent.” “Ms. Kingsley was unable to remove the ovaries from the fridge at that time. She had the chance to seize them if they were so important to her, but she chose not to.
Wojciechowski claimed that he disposed of the body components in July.
Wojciechowski told the judge, “I’ve got food in there that I wanted to eat, but they were rotting in my kitchen, and it was ugly.” “She didn’t keep them in a biohazard container as she should have,” she said.
The prosecutor asked Kingsley why she had come to the $6,500 number and stated that he was unable to grant her request for the testicles to be returned to her because they had been discarded.
Bowie responded, “Precisely why I asked you: I can put a dollar amount on, say, if you were missing job at $16 per hour.” However, I can’t really put a number on testicles.
Kingsley, who was holding a little dark comfort dog the entire reading, claimed that the state footed the bill for the March 23, 2022 procedure at Henry Ford Hospital, despite the fact that she was impaired.
Bowie remarked, “But the state paid for that, you didn’t.” “You won’t be unjustly enriched, I assure you.
“They were my genitalia, we’re talking about my beans,” Kingsley retorted. “Not his refrigerator, but mine, is where I wanted them. He forbade me from using my own body components. I don’t believe that can be measured. The loss of these beans was the cause of the damage.
The Medicaid program covers clinically necessary identity affirmation/confirming health, medical, and pharmacologic treatments and procedures for participants medically diagnosed with gender dysphoria, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The government’s Medicaid program provides health insurance coverage for the majority of low-income people.
The judge once told Kingsley to stop interrupting him during the hearing on Wednesday, saying, “I’ve been calm enough.”
In April 2020, Kingsley and Wojciechowski reportedly met on Facebook Community, and in the fall of 2021, they moved into a Pontiac home that the latter had purchased.
Kingsley claimed that after her procedure, she stored her testicles in the kitchen “because I deal with stress with comedy.” “Shakespeare did it.”
In December 2022, the couple divorced. Kingsley was subjected to a personal protection attempt by Wojciechowski, which she broke one month later. She returned to the house about a fortnight later after she was released from prison and was escorted by the sheriff’s lieutenant to fetch her belongings from Wojciechowski’s house.
Wojciechowski claimed that the next time she tried to enter, he was turned down for harassment. Since she had previously been given permission to get her belongings a month earlier, the judge claimed he had the right to deny her entry.
Kingsley had a hearing on charges of property damage before on Wednesday after she reportedly damaged Wojciechowski’s back entrance. Bowie claimed that reading had been moved to February 28 and that she did not show up.
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