It was Friday afternoon at Wilmington Elementary in downtown New York City where twelve-year-old Mackenzie Harper was walking to the buses, late as usual.
"Mackenzie!"
"Mackenzie turned around to see Mr. Hunter, her language arts teacher from last year.
"Hi Mr. Hunter." She says innocently.
"Hi Mackenzie, would you mind helping me get a few things from the supply closet, just for a second I know you're late?"
"Sure Mr. Hunter, but it'll have to be quick I don't wanna be so late that I miss the bus." Mackenize went into her old language arts classroom and put her backpack down. She turns to Mr. Hunter and sees him opening the supply closet.
"So what do you need to get out of the closet Mr. Hun-" She's cut off as Mr. Templeton, a friend of Mr. Hunter, wraps duct tape around her mouth. Mackenzie, shocked and terrified, to loosen it but is unable to and Mr. Templeton throws her down on the ground and walks to the door to stand guard.
Mr. Hunter walks over and begins to rape her. She tries to squirm away but can't, she cries and tries to say stop but she can't because of the duct tape.
Suddenly he stops and gets up and leaves her crying on the ground to see what all the commotion is outside. Mr. Templeton runs in the room saying, "Mrs. Kennedy is coming, we gotta run."
Mr. Hunter turns back to look at Mackenzie, lying on the floor shocked and horrified, crying, he then grabs her and puts a knife to her throat right as Mrs. Kennedy walks in the room. He mutters something quickly to Mr. Templeton and he runs quickly out of the room, pushing Mrs. Kennedy out of his way.
"Oh my gosh!" She says gasping as she runs to her classroom, frantic. She digs through her purse, finds her cell phone, calls 911 and quickly explains what is happening.
15 minutes later SVU detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler rush to the scene, prepared for anything to happen.
"What happened?" Benson asks a police officer standing nearby.
"Call came in, a woman saying theres a little girl being held hostage by a teacher at Wilmington Elementary." He explained.
"Well why call us?" Stabler asks.
"Teacher said her clothes were all messed up, said she was raped."
Olivia sighs, "Have the parents been notified?"
"We went to get them, found them dead, along with her brother. One of the teacher's friends went there and shot them, he was found fleeing the scene. My partner took him in for questioning."
Olivia pulls Elliot aside and asks, "What should we do?"
"I say we do it my way and just bust down the door. Agree?" He says calmly.
"Agreed." Benson and Stabler both pull out their guns ready to fire. Elliot kicks down the door and points his gun at Mr. Hunter.
"Adam Hunter, let Mackenzie go, and we can work out a deal." Olivia says calmly, trying not to alarm the girl more than she already is.
Adam throws the child and down and runs towards Elliot ready to atttack him. He wrestles him to the ground, but Elliot takes control, rolls him on his back, and handcuffs him.
Olivia runs to Mackenzie, takes the duct tape off and as soon as she does she starts crying. "Shh, shh, sweetie its okay, everythings okay now." She picks her up and carries her out of the room.
"Adam Hunter, you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law…" Stabler reads Mr. Hunter his rights as he's dragged out of the room and taken into custody.
Once they were back at the station, things had calmed down a little bit. Fin and Elliot were questioning Hunter in an interrogation room and Oliva had gone with Mackenzie to the hospital to get a rape kit done.
After the rape kit was done, Olivia took Mackenzie back to the station. When they got there, Elliot greeted Mackenzie.
"Hi Mackenzie. Do you remember me from this afternoon?" Stabler says to the little girl.
Mackenzie just stands there quietly, grabs Olivias arm and hides behind her back. Olivia looks down at the little girl worried about her. She looks back up at Elliot then says, "Mackenzie why don't we go over here to the interview room and talk a little bit okay?"
Mackenzie nods and follows Olivia into the room. Elliot comes in a little bit later with a soda, he gives it to Mackenzie then stands in the back corner of the room.
"Mackenzie, sweetie, where would you like to stay the rest of the week?" Olivia asks softly.
"With mommy, where is she?" Mackenzie asks.
Olivia looks confused for a second, then realizes what she means. "Elliot can I talk to you for a second outside. Mackenzie I'll be right back okay?"Olivia gets up and closes the door behind her after Elliot. "Mackenzie doesn't know her parents are dead. What are we going to do?" She asks.
"We have to tell her. There's no other way. She has an aunt that lives down in Texas, I'll call her, explain everything, and have her fly out here to be with Mackenzie until everything settles down." Olivia nods in response then walks back into the interview room with Mackenzie to tell her the bad news while Elliot goes to his desk to call her aunt.
"Mackenzie, there's something I need to tell you."
"What's wrong Olivia? Where's mommy?" She says worriedly.
"Mr. Templeton, Mr. Hunter's friend, killed your parents and brother. I'm so sorry Mackenzie. My friend Elliot is calling your aunt in Texas to come and stay with you during the trial."
Mackenzie begins to cry and shakes her head no. Olivia gets up from thet able and hugs her, silently crying to herself.