Child’s Mother Contradicts Testimony by Yacobozzi : Court: The woman alleges that the attorney is the father and that he secretly visited the boy.

A Huntington Beach woman testified Thursday that attorney William Yacobozzi Jr. fathered her child and that he once gave her $1,500 in cash so that she and her son could find a better place to live, directly contradicting his testimony of earlier this week.

Coleen M. Walters, who was subpoenaed by the district attorney’s office Thursday morning, also testified that Yacobozzi had met her son more than once clandestinely at his Santa Ana office during off hours.

The meetings were “arranged on Saturday when no one was in the office,” Walters said.

Yacobozzi, 50, has been charged with one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, one count of falsifying evidence and five counts of perjury. If convicted he could face up to four years in prison and lose his license to practice law.

Prosecutors allege that he tried to dodge a 1988 paternity suit filed by Walters, who claimed that he was the father of her son, now 6.

In that case, which has since been settled out of court, Yacobozzi was ordered to take a blood test at a Long Beach hospital. That test concluded that there was a 99.3% chance that he fathered the child.

Yacobozzi subsequently asked for, and was granted, a DNA test, which would precisely determine parentage. The results of the March 5, 1990, test showed that he could not have been the child’s father.

Prosecutors, however, say that the defendant sent a substitute who was given Yacobozzi’s driver’s license for identification, to take the DNA test.

Yacobozzi testified this week that he took the test and did not send anyone in his place. He also has denied in court that he ever had a sexual relationship with Walters and said he had no knowledge of the child being his until 1988.

In her testimony Thursday, however, Walters said they had sex in Yacobozzi’s office after a meeting in September, 1984.

The attorney, with whom she had a platonic and professional relationship for 15 years, had been hugging her at the time to comfort her because of her father’s recent death, she testified, and the consolation “progressed from there.”