Samantha Geldenhuis

He said that while Lee was a flight attendant, Harris was a successful stockbroker.

So he believed Harris would be better able to provide a stable environment.

The judge also noted what he called Lee's inability to control her impulses in court.

I think I got hyper.

I think I got stressed.

I think I got scared.

I was very scared because I knew something was really, really going wrong.

This is the court order that... Lee says what was most damaging and untrue was the judge's finding that she had been violent toward Harris and his conclusion that her condition might lead to homicide or suicide.

It left me so scared and so cold because when you label somebody as that, that means I'm such a danger to my child.

On February 18, 1994... We didn't think it could happen.

Judge Mallard awarded full custody of nine-and-a-half-month-old Savannah to her father, Harris Todd.

It was hard to believe that it could even happen.

Lee's friends were still reeling from the judge's decision.

Harris came to get Savannah the very same day he was awarded custody.

When they came and took her is when I lost it.

Lee says what worried her the most was something Harris had said in court, that he would take his daughter to a psychiatrist as young as three years old if he saw any signs of her mother's illness.

It sounds like what you're saying, Lee, is you were afraid Harris Todd was going to do to this baby girl what he had done to you.

Yeah.

I knew as a grown woman, if I couldn't

prove that I wasn't mentally ill.