THE DETROIT NEWS — A district court judge Wednesday denied a pair of dueling $6,500 small claims petitions that centered around a [so-called] transgender woman’s attempt to get her [sic] surgically removed testicles back after they were kept for months in her ex-boyfriend’s refrigerator.
During a contentious small claims hearing in Pontiac’s 50th District Court, Judge Jeremy Bowie ruled “it’s a wash” after hearing testimony from Brianna Kingsley, 40, and her 37-year-old ex, William Wojciechowski.
Kingsley filed a handwritten small claims petition in August claiming Wojciechowski “retains possession of my surgically extracted testicles, preserved in (a) Mason jar, kept in (the) fridge next to the eggs. Demand immediate return of my human remains specimen and damages of $6,500.”
Wojciechowski filed a counterclaim seeking $6,500 in damages because he said he had been “humiliated” by coverage of the case by “worldwide news outlets.”
Bowie denied both claims, a decision he said Wednesday can’t be appealed. The judge said Kingsley had an opportunity to get her testicles back when an Oakland County Sheriff’s deputy accompanied her to Wojciechowski’s Pontiac home in January 2023. Wojciechowski said he threw the body parts away in July.
“They were rotting in my fridge, and it was disgusting — I’ve got food in there I wanted to eat”
When the deputy escorted her to the house, Kingsley had just gotten out of the Oakland County Jail, where she’d been incarcerated for three days and fined $100 for violating a personal protection order Wojciechowski had filed against her.
“We allow a one-time visit with a Sheriff’s officer in situations like that for people to go back to get their belongings,” the judge said.
“Ms. Kingsley failed to retrieve the testicles from the refrigerator at that time. … If they were so important to her, she had the opportunity to grab them, and she didn’t.”
Kingsley, who clutched a small black comfort dog throughout the hearing, said the March 23, 2022 surgery at Henry Ford Hospital cost $20,000, although she said because she’s disabled, the state footed the bill …
