Kathy Salvadez:
I was a dancer. That's what I've done since I was six years old. But now that was all about to come to an end. My mother was threatening to give up on paying for my classes. I couldn't let her do that. It would ruin all of my chances of becoming a professional dancer; something that I had always wanted to be. But at least she was going to pay for me and a friend and one of her parents to go down to Las Vegas for a big Dance competition. The one thing I had been waiting my whole life to do. I was an excellent dancer and my mother knew it. She just didn't have the money to pay for the classes anymore.
My father left when I was ten years old. He had a habit of hitting my mom. And when my mom found out that he was sneaking into my bedroom at night, she kicked him out and called the cops. He had already done what she had feared. He had raped me even though I had never said anything in fear that my father would kill my mother and me.
The SVU detectives were brought in on the case and my father was put in Riekers prison. Everything went wacko from then on out but I still had dance to look forward to. Then I met Maureen Stabler. And everything changed.
