“You want to have your birthdays in Children’s Village? Do you like going to the bathroom in front of people? Is your bed soft and comfortable at home? I’ll tell you this, if you two don’t have a nice lunch with your dad and make this up to your dad, you’re going to come back here after lunch and I’m going to have the deputies take you to Children’s Village.”
According to The Daily Tribune, the father invited the two children to the court cafeteria, but the younger boy said, “I’ll go with my brother [to the detention center] then.”
Gorcyca threatened that the boy would be kept apart from his older brother at the detention center, but to no avail.
His sister also refused to have lunch with her father, and an exasperated Gorcyca said, “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Tsimchoni’s attorney has since withdrawn from the case, claiming he hadn’t been paid the $16,220 fee he was owed.