Mamta Kafle Bhatt's supporters speak outside the courthouse

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: I know you guys have been there since day one searching for Mamda to hear this update today. What was your reaction? He's really heartbreaking, you know, just [00:00:09] Speaker 2: can't believe this, how he can do that. Got pieces in body and put in the trash can. No words. [00:00:24] Speaker 1: I know a lot of you were struggling to even find the words still now. How are you doing? I know you've been sitting next to Gita this entire time. She broke down. How are you doing? [00:00:36] Speaker 3: Not very well. I think because one of the reasons like it wasn't expected that he was going to even testify from yesterday. I think everybody was like we're not ready for him to testify yesterday all day with all the lies and today continues and then confessing. That was a huge and very unexpected. And the explanation what he did, how he did was terrible, heartbreaking. I was about to vomit like and I think sitting next to Gita was the hardest job was to, you know, not only like hold myself tight but hold her too. Um, she broke down very bad. Um, and I also noticed that we had a lunch time. We usually have good food. People have been bringing food and in our culture when somebody dies, people, we do not take salty, any kind of salty food. Uh, water is okay or fruits okay. And she only ate fruits today. And I felt so bad for her. And I realized that she, she maybe accepts accepted that today is the officially announced that her daughter is no more longer. And she only ate fruits. I felt it. I felt it. I felt her. I have requested to all the people who have been around here to hang tight, stay until four and stay with her today. They need our extra support today, tomorrow, coming days. Um, I know we're gonna see cross and everything. It's gonna get only worse before things get better. And I really hope that he is still gonna get charged for all three charges, you know, first degree and everything and the most whatever max, you know, amount of conviction you can get. I've seen all three of you at the searches [00:02:41] Speaker 1: since day one. Were you still holding out hope that she was alive? I did not. We did not know. [00:02:49] Speaker 4: Unfortunately, we learned about a week into it. We didn't expect to find her anymore. You know, we searched for days for her expecting to find her. Um, and then when he was charged in December, officially with the murder, we kind of knew that this day was coming. And even though it's not surprising he admitted what he admitted, it still hurts to hear. Um, it's just, it was shocking. We did not expect him ever to confess. Yeah. Well, what he said also, [00:03:22] Speaker 1: do you believe that Mamta would take her own life? No, not at all. Not at all. He, there was already, [00:03:29] Speaker 3: he started with a lie. No, that didn't happen. And if you remember all of the surveillance cameras and then, uh, you know, the searches at home, they never mentioned about that, the medication that, you know, the pesticide, whatever it is, but that she, she took it probably. No, he, he just started with a [00:03:47] Speaker 4: lie. But all the evidence shows what he did to her, all the evidence, the DNA evidence, the FBI, Tesla evidence, all of it shows exactly what he did. So he can try to lie, but the jury's smarter than that. [00:04:01] Speaker 3: And this is not going to work for juries. It's over already. Um, I, you know, I've been here every day. I, you know, analyze like my, from my perspective, right? I'm a general population. Um, they're overweight. They know, um, also like we all have been waiting for this day. We wanted this to happen. But like she said, you know, like when we hear things that we want to hear, it's hard to digest it because how can you do that? How can you do that? A person in the whole world, how can a human being to that, another human being? And he is saying that, oh, you know what, you know, I didn't want to go to the temple. I'm scared of the God. You're not scared of the God. If you were scared of God, you would never do that. So contraindicated, whatever he did and whatever he says, even around, right? Even then, like he confessed and he's still lying. But you know what? We're here stronger together. We'll get through this together and we're with family. [00:05:05] Speaker 1: I was going to say, I know you all were planning to wear the nurses that are here. We're planning to wear blue today. You never expected this, but why is it so important to now more than ever stand [00:05:16] Speaker 3: together? How are you going to get through this? Of course. So we had a plan for this to come in the Blue Scrub next Monday, but I just had a feeling. I also told her that I just had a feeling and I said, you know what, let's do it today. You know, I have a feeling something's going to happen. So, you know, I changed the date and I said, let's just do it today. And I think the amount of love and support that we already have had all the time and especially Mamta was a nurse, right? And not only that, we're all human beings. Like we do care for people, right? And why can you like, like, look at her. She's been here from the day one and all the other non-Nepali speaker, non-Nepali people, they're all together. So right now, today, it was very important to show that Blue Scrub, to the jury, to the judge, to the people around that overwhelming emotions. When he said something, like we couldn't control, you know, like they had to shut him off, right? Sit down. We couldn't do that. It's obvious, like it's obvious human side. Like, you know, we needed that and it happened. I'm so glad. I'm so proud that all fellow nurses, you know, came together. How can people best support [00:06:30] Speaker 4: Mamta's family at this point? I think continuing to show up and continuing to demand for justice, volunteer at a domestic violence shelter, donate to a domestic violence shelter, do anything you can to help other women not become a victim like Mamta, and just continuing as women to rally around each other, stand by each other, support each other, and just try to save the next [00:06:54] Speaker 3: person. That's all we can do. And love Mamta's daughter. She, we're all, we're always loving her, right? We always, we're already doing it, but she needs us right now and for future forever. [00:07:09] Speaker 1: So, uh, let me ask you this. She's three years old now. You know, I've met her. She's adorable. She's a beautiful little girl. How do you explain this to her? Has that even begun to process in your mind? [00:07:22] Speaker 3: Um, personally, I really think that she should know eventually, not right now, but I think, I personally think we need to, when the time comes, we need to start breaking it down and bring it to her. Good way. Who was her mom was, her legacy, you know, her love to her daughter, right? How good daughter she was, how good mom she was, right? What a good person she was. Exactly. Good person she was. [00:07:56] Speaker 4: And share the TikTok videos and let her see how much her mother loved her. [00:07:59] Speaker 3: And loved by the community and everything. Yeah. Just keep her front and center. Keep her, yeah. It's a center and positive. Um, and try to tell her that your mom was the best person, but she's at the God house right now. Thank you for speaking to me and I'm so sorry. I know it was a tough day. It is tough day for you as well. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much.