Mercy General Hospital
1000 N Village Ave
Friday, September 2
10:30 a.m.
Olivia walked down the hallway to the last door on the right and knocked and opened the door, "Ashley, it's Detective Be- she stopped in mid sentence when she noticed the room was empty, she checked in the bathroom, but no one was there. She left the room and headed to the nurses station, "Excuse me do you know what happened to the girl in room twelve? Her name was Ashley Johnson." she asked a nurses standing behind the counter.
"Let me check." the nurse answered as she walk over to a computer and typed her name in. "She checked herself out this morning" the nurse said.
"Okay thanks," Olivia said. She decided that she would head back over to Ashley's apartment figuring that's where she was.
Apartment Building 32nd St.
Ashley Johnson Residence
11:27 a.m.
Knock Knock Olivia knocked on the door, "Ashley, it's Detective Benson open up"
She opened the door, but only a little bit, "What do you want?"she asked.
"Can I come in? We need to talk. Please?"
The girl hesitated for a moment, but then she stepped back away from the door allowing Benson to come in. They both walked into the living room and sat down on the couch.
"Why can't you people just leave me alone?"
"It's our job and were not going away until you tell us what happened so that we can arrest him." The girl sat there in silence looking down at the floor. "If we don't arrest him, he could go out and rape someone else."
"You don't get it, if I tell you he'll kill me"
"He's never going to hurt you again, we will protect you."You've got to trust me"
There was a long silence as Olivia stared at the young woman, who continued to look down at the floor.
"All you've got to do is come with me down to the station, and make a statement. You want have to testify against him." After a few minutes the woman agreed.
"Fine as long as you people will stop harassing me." she said getting up and grabbing her jacket off the couch.
"Can I get you anything?" Olivia asked
"A coke "
"Okay I'll be right back." Olivia said as she left the room she headed down the hall to the vending machine heading back she was stopped by Elliot.
"I see you finally got the victim to come in to make a statement."
"Uh-Hmm" she said smiling toward him
Entering the room she noticed Ashley standing by the window staring outside obviously lost in thought
"Here ya go." Olivia said sitting the can down on the table
Ashley shuffled over to the table and sat down"It was my ex boyfriend she began, catching Olivia off guard she continued, "We broke up last week after an argument in which he hit me, he's always had a bad temper but it's just kinda escalated since we've been together I mean that was the first time he'd ever hit me and he's usually only like that we he's drunk. When I left him the next day, he threatened me and he told me that I was gonna pay and that nobody leaves him, but I never thought he would be able to find me. So I was surprised last night when he showed up at my door, and when I opened the door to tell him to leave that's when he forced his way inside . . . "She said her voice trailing off.
"Then what happened?"
"He grabbed me by my hair and dragged me to the bedroom, and threw me on the bed and-and started raping me I tried to fight him but he would just start hitting me so I stopped and just closed my eyes." She said with tear filled eyes.
Olivia just wanted to grab the woman and hug her and comfort her but she knew she had to keep questioning her she had to get her to tell them his name.
"What's his name?" she asked in a gentle voice
"Jimmy."
"What's Jimmy's last name?"
"Douglas" she said continuing to cry.
"You did great sweetie." She said as she patted Ashley's hand and gave her a gentle smile. "Now all you have to do is just write down exactly what you told me." She said sliding a notepad and pen toward her, she took the pen and wrote her statement down.
