Mom of Boy Who Died in Hot Car Takes Stand Against Father.
BANFIELD: A crucial day in the trial of that father who left his 22-month- old boy Cooper in the car to die in temperature that raced past 100 degrees. Cooper`s mom. The ex-wife of defendant Justin Ross Harris. She took the stand for a second day today. The defense is hoping that what she says can paint a picture of perhaps a forgetful dad but a loving dad and not a murderous dad. But today, she unloads quite a shocker, saying that he ruined her life. She also spoke of his infidelities, their intimacy issues, and a lot more too.</s>LEANNA TAYLOR, EX-WIFE OF JUSTIN ROSS HARRIS: The problems we were having with the sexual dysfunction in our relationship. Low testosterone level, the shots, he did gel, he did patches. His response was that it was pornography.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Were you aware he was using Craigslist during this time to set up sexual meetings with men and women?</s>TAYLOR: No. I did not.</s>BANFIELD: She knew something. She didn`t know other things. He certainly had a lot of sexual issues. He was involved in the child`s death and she is grieving. You can understand why she would want Justin Ross Harris out of her life once and for all.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How do you feel about your ex-husband?</s>TAYLOR: He ruined my life. He destroyed my life. I`m humiliated. I may never trust anybody again. The way that I did. If I never see him again after this day, that`s fine.</s>BANFIELD: Despite all of this, if you step back and look at her testimony, the mother of this little dead toddler seemingly made efforts in court to keep that father out of prison. And the question is why? Natisha Lance, HLN senior producer. She has been in the courtroom everyday of the Justin Ross Harris trial. That`s the question. I think I asked you yesterday too. She knew all about the sexting, she knew all these issues, and she still defends the guy that she says ruined my life. Why is she doing this?</s>NATISHA LANCE, HLN SENIOR PRODUCER: Ashleigh, that last bit of sound that you played was what the jury was left with before she left the stand, saying that Justin Ross Harris had ruined her life. The defense said early on in this case that if there was anybody who should hate Justin Ross Harris, it is Leanna Harris. But what we learned through her testimony is that she believes Justin Ross Harris was a good dad, that he loved Cooper, he would not never done anything to harm him, and she believes that this was all an accident. And that`s what we`ve seen throughout her testimony.</s>BANFIELD: So Natisha, there was something else other than these beautiful pictures we`re seeing and Leanna crying on the stand. We also got a glimpse into their financial picture. And that was that Justin was having trouble at work. He didn`t get a job he wanted at Chick-Fil-A. He didn`t get a promotion that he wanted at the Home Depot where he was working. And somehow the prosecutors are making a pretty big leap to say, if I didn`t have a child, life would be a lot easier. How are they doing that?</s>LANCE: They`re releasing his picture that Justin Ross Harris` life was spiraling out of control. And this had to do with a message that he had sent to someone that said he was at his breaking point. And these were things that they also try to hit on with Leanna saying that she did know that he was at his breaking point. But, yes, you`re right. He had applied for a job with Chick-Fil-A. He didn`t get the job. She said that he was unfulfilled at work. He liked the work but he had been over for a promotion. And so he was a bit frustrated. They talked about her job saying that she was working about 20 to 30 hours per week, but she wasn`t getting the hours that she wanted to be getting at that time. It didn`t sound like they were having serious financial issues though.</s>BANFIELD: Okay, so something that Leanna did at the funeral of this beautiful little baby we`re seeing on the screen right now. It got a lot of people flipped out. These are the things that she said at her own son`s funeral. Am I angry with Ross? Absolutely not. It has never crossed my mind. Ross is and was and will be, if we have more children, a wonderful father. Ross is a wonderful daddy and a leader for our children. I am happy to have a list of things my son will skip. His first heart break. I won`t have to see that. Junior high and high school. I didn`t like it. Who to sit with at lunch those awkward middle school years? He will not have to suffer through the death of his grandparents. He will not have to suffer through death of me and Ross. I miss him with all of my heart. Would I bring him back? No. To bring him back into this broken world would be selfish. That had so many people asking questions about Leanna Taylor, then Leanna Harris. Lawrence Zimmerman is her attorney. Mr. Zimmerman, thanks so much for being with us. I`m still so curious about who she is.</s>LAWRENCE ZIMMERMAN, LEANNA TAYLOR`S ATTORNEY: Exactly.</s>BANFIELD: . and who she has become. Here she is saying these odd things like, would I want my baby back, no. And then getting on the stand today and saying, Ross ruined my life but he`s no murder. Help me understand where her head is?</s>ZIMMERMAN: Number one, Asheigh, this was not evidence in the trial whatsoever about what she said at the funeral. Secondly, she lost her child. I don`t know how many people you know that have lost children who died in a car in such a tragic way. She was shell shocked. She was emotional. And she had the police breathing down her neck, casting aspersions and suspicions and social media and media showing up at her house. So she was in a very broken place herself. She is also very religious. And so she made those comments because she was at a place in her life where things were very tragic and sad and that`s -- she is a very prayerful, faith-based person. And she just said that. You know, we`re trying to take snippet of someone`s life in the most tragic times and trying to project it out what kind of person they are. She`s a caring person, she`s a loving mother, and she has a great heart.</s>BANFIELD: I think you make a really good point. Mr. Zimmerman, nobody can ever imagine what it is like to grief and everybody griefs differently. People have been indicted because of the way they grieve. And it is not always right or not always fair. I will ask you this. It took about a year and a half for Leanna to finally walk away and divorce Ross. I`m wondering if you have insight. I know you worked with her on the divorce as well. Did she leave him because he is responsible for the death of Cooper? Did she leave him because of his porn and sex fascinations and the cheating? Or did she leave him because he is the reason all of that spotlight was cast on her? He is the reason people took those words from the funeral and began to look askance at her. What was it? What finally made her decide, he is done, he ruined my life, I never want to see him again?</s>ZIMMERMAN: Well, again, Leanna was not going to divorce Ross because for whatever particular reason. She was not trying to do it to make him look better for him or for her. Number one, remember, Ross has been in jail all this time. She was never able to have a private conversation about any of these things she was hearing. Every time she spoke to him, it is always recorded by the Sheriff`s Department and the District Attorney Office views all these videos. So she couldn`t ask him all these questions. Did you do this? Why did you do this? Most people who go through a divorce or lose a child actually got to have a conversation about with the person they`re trying to divorce. So she had to process all this for a really long time. And once you got to the point where she felt comfortable that this man is not for me, after hearing all these things, she finally decided on her timetable, anybody else`s, that she wanted to divorce him. That`s what she did. Some people stay married for 30 years and there`s spousal abuse. So, I mean, she just -- took a year and a half. That`s not really long. Time goes by really fast. Two years now since Cooper passed and the time has flown by.</s>BANFIELD: Yeah, I understand that. Hold on for a moment. I want to update our viewers on a story that we`re tracking tonight here on Primetime Justice. Maybe it`s a good story born of a bad one. Because the survivor in this Stanford rape case has been named one of Glamour`s Magazine Women of the Year. She is Emily Doe. It was a powerful letter that lit a fire against the rape culture in colleges and universities across the country. She is still anonymous and this is what she wrote. She decided that this letter would come after a judge sentenced Brock Turner to just six months in jail for the crimes that he committed. He just served three months of that six-month sentence. It prompted new state laws in California and launch a recall movement against sentencing judge, Aaron Persky. So I want to read for you. I think the most poignant part is actually the last line of her essay in Glamour Magazine right now. Victims are not victims, not some fragile, sorrowful aftermath. Victims are survivors, and survivors are going to be doing a hell of a lot more than surviving.