In the name of love

Fortunately, he really didn't want Sam to see his eyes swollen like walnuts.

At this time, Ai Cao had finished her declaration and stood upright on the witness stand.

Yulu saw Ai Ting sitting on the prosecution seat, except for looking away for a while, his face was a little tense, but he didn't have a particularly uncomfortable expression.And Ai Cao looked like she was on the battlefield, with a calm and solemn expression, completely different from the usual Heavenly Soldiers.Yulu was surprised that this little girl would have such an expression, as expected of the daughter of the seat inspector.

Ji Lan looked at him again, and after confirming that he was really all right, she stood up from the defense stand and faced the witness stand.Wormwood was their friendly witness, so it was up to the defense to cross-examine.

"Hello witness, what is your identity?"

Ai Cao straightened her upper body. "My name is Ai Cao, and I am a second-year graduate student at the National Development Institute. After class, I will work as a volunteer in the Juvenile and Children Placement Center assisted by the Social Bureau."

"Do you know the defendant who is in court now?"

Ai Cao nodded, looking directly at Ye Chang, "Yes, I know him, his name is Ye Chang, he is a very good person."

Yulu saw that Ye Chang raised his head slightly, and looked at Ai Cao with complicated eyes, as if he was looking at a familiar yet unfamiliar person, and seemed to be recalling something.

"Under what circumstances did you and Mr. Ye Chang meet?" Ji Lan asked gently.

"I started working as a volunteer in the resettlement center seven or eight years ago, when Chang Ye was there. I just graduated from high school that year, and I didn't understand many things. Mr. Ye was a senior volunteer and taught me a lot. Gradually getting to know him, we have worked together for two or three years and left many good memories." Ai Cao said with a smile on her lips.

"What do the volunteers in the resettlement center do specifically?"

"Generally, I just play with those children. Those children are homeless and have no source of income. Most of them can only stay there. We are responsible for teaching them some things, such as drawing and arithmetic. When the funds are sufficient , We will also cooperate with organizations such as the National Salvation Corps to take children out to play."

"What age do you mean by children?"

"Generally speaking, there are children from the age of six to 13, and there are very few children over the age of 13. It seems that they are over the age of legal punishment, so most of them will not be sent to us for resettlement. We are not a nursery here."

Ji Lan walked slowly around the side of Ai Cao, and stopped at this moment.

"So, in your work, do you often touch children's bodies?"

"Touching the body? Well, it's quite normal. For example, when a child is naughty, we will pick him up and teach him not to do this, or when the child is crying, we will also show love. Hugs and stuff, and we pulled them apart when two kids were fighting. Sometimes some of the younger ones just didn’t adapt to the new environment, and we even helped them bathe and sleep with them.”

"During this process, it is inevitable that children's naked bodies or sexual organs will be seen?"

"Big, probably, how do I take a shower if I don't see it? Do you close your eyes and wash?" Ai Cao said in a straightforward manner, causing a slight laugh from the auditorium.

"Is it Miss Ai Cao that you do this, or are other volunteers doing this?"

"Most volunteers do this," Ai Cao said.

"Then the defendant you know has done the same thing in the past?"

"Yes." Wormwood said with certainty.

There was a whisper from the auditorium, and Ji Lan approached the witness stand where Ai Cao was.

"So, when the defendant Ye Chang was doing volunteer work, in terms of the time you worked with him, have you ever heard or seen any defendant Ye Chang behaved inappropriately towards those children?"

"Improper behavior? Uh, does it count if you play a game with the children who can make the other party make a funny face if they eat the carrot first?"

There was a burst of laughter in the court, and Ai Cao seemed really confused, looking at Ji Lan with her head tilted.Yulu can't help but admire that, in fact, the pre-examination of friendly witnesses in cross-examination, the so-called main examination, is usually within the scope of the prosecution and defense's own control in advance.Therefore, in order to prevent important fortresses from being breached by the opponent, most of them will be rehearsed in advance.

If the essence of cross-examination is to break through the weaknesses and past statements in the witness's statement, then the focus of the main cross-examination is not only to consolidate the foundation, but also to convince the judge that what the witness said is indeed true.

And judges have experienced many battles, and most judges know what kind of witnesses are rehearsed and taught.Compared with the fluent and smooth speech-like testimony that Ai Ting just questioned Ms. Wu, a witness like Ai Cao who has one or two unclear situations can win the trust of the judge more.

Yulu didn't know if this was one of Ji Lan's strategies, but he reasonably believed that Ji Lan deliberately prevented Ai Cao's testimony from being edited.

Moreover, Yulu heard from Ji Lan that she had been in and out of courts since she was a child, and her after-school activities when she returned home from elementary school was to go to the court to watch her father's court session. For ordinary people, the court, which would tremble just by touching the thigh, is like home to wormwood.Even without rehearsal, the wormwood standing on the witness stand is graceful and graceful, without feeling nervous at all.

With this girl's aggressive personality and her familiarity with the courtroom, she is the best example of a friendly witness.Yulu couldn't help but admire Ji Lan's vision again.

"I mean, you have seen defendant Ye Chang's behavior towards those children, especially boys, indecent or sexual harassment. For example, inadvertently touching their sexual organs, stroking their bodies, or kissing them, etc. behavior?"

"What? Touching their genitals?"

Ai Cao exclaimed in the witness stand and covered her mouth with her hands, causing the spectators to laugh again and again.Yulu looked at Ai Ting's face and kept looking at other places.

"Yes, to be more specific, girls refer to lower body and breasts, and boys refer to penis or anus."

Yulu's eyes widened when she saw Ai Cao, as if it was inconceivable that Ji Lan could say these nouns calmly in front of him.

"Of course not! How could our volunteers do such a thing?" Ai Cao said, and then said after a long while: "But the little boys often come to lift my skirt. Is this considered sexual harassment to me?"

"So have you ever witnessed that the defendant Ye Chang has a particularly good relationship with a certain boy, or has a tendency to approach a certain child unusually frequently?"

Ai Cao tilted her head and didn't answer for a while, the court was silent.

"Miss Ai Cao?" Ji Lan could only ask.

"Oh, I'm just thinking about it." Ai Cao said as if waking up from a dream: "You asked me so many questions at once, it was all eight years ago, although I have always had a good memory, I still think about it Well."

There was so much laughter in the courtroom that even the serious-looking young judge with black-rimmed glasses on the left could not help but snort, but he quickly blocked it with his fist, pretending that he was just coughing.

Ji Lan was usually calm, "So, what's the result of your recollection?"

"Hmm... I can't think of what you said. Brother Ye is very good to every child, and he doesn't favor any one in particular. In my impression, Brother Ye is often surrounded by a large group of children, and some children climb on his back. Some pulled his hand, some pulled his hair, and others rushed to tell him what happened today."

The whole court listened quietly to Ai Cao's description, and Ai Cao spoke in a gentle tone.

"He often took the children up the mountain with me and a few older brothers who were volunteers. I remember one time when a child was naughty and threw stones at the beehives on the ground. As a result, all the bees ran out, scaring the children away. That The boy was also frightened and froze, unable to move."

"Of course our brothers and sisters are also fleeing everywhere. Among all of us, there is only one person who has not moved, and that person is Brother Ye. Brother Ye hugged the little boy, and it was obvious that he was also terrified, but he was like this. With both hands, he protected the boy under his body, turned his back to the broken beehive, and refused to let go..."

Ai Cao followed suit, turning her back to Ji Lan.

"Fortunately, people from the mountaineering team came nearby and immediately threw away the smoke to drive away the bees, but Brother Ye and the child were bitten badly. Before the hospital sent them away, I remember that Brother Ye was still there. Looking at the boy's bruised back, weeping while applying medicine for him...I cried and said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

Ai Cao smiled, "At that time we laughed at him and said, you are not a bee, why apologize on their behalf? But Brother Ye is such a gentle person, so gentle that most of the children used to like to bully him for fun, ah, I'm almost the same, after Big Brother Ye left, those kids started to bully me instead."

Ai Cao spoke cheerfully, and many people in the courtroom smiled.

"He is the most popular big brother among our volunteers. He is so popular that we all eat it. After he left the resettlement center, when many children were about to leave the center, they would pull my sleeves and ask me when Brother Ye return."

Yulu glanced at Ye Chang in the dock, and saw that he was also raising his head, listening intently to the description of Ai Cao.

"Then, based on your observation as a witness, is the defendant Ye Chang likely to be a child lover?"

Ji Lan asked word by word, and Ai Cao shook her head deeply.

"I don't think it's possible," she said emphatically.

There was a slight commotion in the courtroom. Seeing that the old judge on the table was talking to the young man beside him, he sat back solemnly in the middle, while the judge on the right