Chapter Four The First Discovery

A look of concern draped across the detectives' faces. Eliot said,
"So what do we do now?" Olivia said, "I think that we should go back
to her school." Eliot said, "Again? We just came from there. What else
do you expect us to find there?" Then Olivia said, "Well maybe there's
something that we overlooked." Then Fin said, "Like what?" Olivia
said, "I don't know, but we won't know unless we go back there.
Something is definitely going on with Katy, and the family is definitely hiding something. We won't know what that is until we do more to find out." Then Munch said, "Well we've done a lot to try and find out already, but the girl won't talk, and her family won't let her talk to us, and the school can't give us anything, what else can we do?" Then Olivia said, "The school can't or won't give us anything." Captain Cragen said to Olivia, "We don't want to waist any more time. So are you sure that we could get more out of the school if we were to go back there?" "I don't know, but I have a feeling that we didn't talk
to the right people, or that we didn't ask the right questions."
Captain Cragen said, "All right. Go back to the school and see what you
can come up with, but go easy. We're dealing with something that we
don't deal with everyday. I say this respectfully, but we don't
exactly deal with the Amish culture everyday."

When detectives Benson and Stabler arrived at the school that day,
it was in the afternoon, about ten minutes to twelve o'clock. Munch
and Fin stayed behind at the SVU squad to try to look for any
additional information that they could find on Katy's family.
Detectives Benson and Stabler saw a girl who looked a little like
Katy, and thought that she might be her sister. she wasn't, but she
was Katy's best friend Christin. Christin was sitting on one of the
benches outside. She looked like she was waiting for someone. Olivia
said, "Excuse me. Hi. My name is Olivia Benson. I'm a detective, and
this is my partner Detective Eliot Stabler. Can we talk to you for a
minute?" Christin said, "What did I do?" Olivia said, "No. You didn't
do anything. We just want to talk to you about someone named Katy. she
goes to this school." Christin said, "Oh yeah. I know Katy. She's my
absolute best friend!" Eliot said, "Good. Can you tell us a little bit
about Katy?" Christin said, "Sure. Katy's a really great person. She's
always ready to help anyone who needs her. She's a great friend."
She started to trail off after she said the word friend. Olivia and
Eliot gave each other a look of wonder. Olivia said, "What's wrong
Christin?" Christin said, "Nothing's wrong. I have to go." Eliot said,
"Now Christin, if there's something that you need to tell us."
Christin broke in and said hurriedly, "There's nothing to tell. Katy's
fine!" Olivia said, "She's fine? then why won't you tell us what
you're so upset about? If Katy's in trouble, then you have to tell us
so that we can help her. We're trying to help Katy. You're her best
friend. Don't you want to help her too?" Christin said, "How could I
help her? I've done everything that I can." Olivia said, "You can now
also help her by trusting us, and telling us what's going on with her.
We want to help her. You think that you've done everything that you
can, but you haven't." "What else can I do?" "You can tell us. We
haven't done everything that we can, and we want to do everything that
we can to help Katy. So please, tell us." "Okay. I'll tell you."
Before she spoke, Christin took a deep breath, and sighed. She said,
"Well Katy's carriage driver is bothering her a lot." Olivia said,
"How is he bothering her?" "He hits her and makes fun of her for being
visually impaired. He also sometimes touches her too. That's not the
only problem." Olivia asked, "What else is going on with Katy?" "Katy
is a really great friend, but when she's actually here to be a
friend." Olivia asked gently, "What do you mean?" Christin gave a
thankful look to Olivia. She continued, "Katy hasn't been sitting
with me at lunch lately. She has been going off with these boys."
Eliot was writing down Christin's responses. Olivia said, "What boys?"
"There are these new boys who are triplets. they just came here a week
ago, and they are already starting trouble. Katy has been going with
them everyday at lunch, and doesn't return until the very beginning of
the next class. I think that something is going on. I think that the
boys are hurting her." Olivia asked her, "How do you think the boys
are hurting her?" "She just hasn't been acting right. She is more
jumpy than usual. She has all of these bruises all over her. She has
these hikkies too. She also has these burns all over her too." "How do
you know that these injuries are being caused by these boys? "I guess
I don't." "When did you start to notice these injuries?" "A week ago.
Wait. Katy has always been a little banged up, as long as I've known
her. But she just has been different lately." "Where does Katy usually
meet these boys at?" "Up in the secret hills in this school." "Well
it's almost lunch time. Why don't we take a little walk up there and
see what we can find."

Eliot, Olivia, and Christin, all walked up to the hide out where
they expected to find Katy and these boys. They were almost at the
top, when Christin gave a look of worry. Olivia said, "What's the
matter Christin?" "Nothing. It's just, we're almost at the top. What
if they are really hurting Katy?" "Then you did the right thing by
telling us so that we can now help Katy." They got to the top, but
they couldn't find Katy. They were very quiet. All of a sudden, they
heard a scream. Eliot stayed with Christin. She wanted to go with, but
the detectives insisted that she stay behind with Eliot, just in case
of danger. They didn't need anyone else hurt. So Eliot stayed with
Christin, and Olivia went to check out the scream.

She listened again. She listened really hard, but she couldn't hear
anything. Then she heard the scream again. Then she saw Katy. the boys
were trying to rape her. They were trying to rip her clothes off. She
was screaming, "No. Please. Don't!" Olivia ran over to her and said,
"Police! Back away from her! Get your hands up. Get em up now! The
boys didn't put their hands up. One of them said, "Make me bitch!"
then the boy started trying to run for Olivia. He reached his arms out
for her, as if he was about to hit her. Olivia grabbed him and cuffed
him. She told him that he was under arrest for attempted rape. She also
arrested the other two boys and told them the same thing. then Eliot
took Christin back to her classroom. Her parents came and got her for
the day. They would go and see Katy at the hospital later. Meanwhile,
Eliot took the boys in to the squad car and to the station house.
Olivia waited with Katy while the ambulance got there to take her to
the hospital. She was conscious and able to talk. While they were
waiting, Olivia asked her what happened. Katy told her that the three
boys had been eyeing her from the moment that they came to the school
a week ago. She told Olivia that they would make her come up to the
hill and that they would do bad things to her. She told Olivia that
they would try and make her smoke with them and do drugs, and when she
wouldn't do those things, then they would hit her and burn her.
Olivia could se the small burns on her arms and face. Katy told Olivia
that they had only burned her once. She told Olivia that especially
when she wouldn't have sex with the three of them, then that's when
they tried to rape her. That was the second time that they tried to
rape her, she told her. She also told Olivia that for the first day,
that the three boys were really nice to her. Then when it was time to
go back to class that day, that was when the boys told her that the
next time that they got to the top of the hill with her, that that was
the time where they were going to tell her all of these new rules that
they had laid out for her. By then, the ambulance got there, and
Olivia rode with her to the hospital.

Katy's mother got to the hospital and thanked Olivia for not giving
up on finding out what was going on with her daughter. They talked for
a while. Sarah said, "You know, it would not hurt if we had someone to
help get our children to school. Now that we know about the carriage
driver, we are going to have to find another one. I was wondering, if
you could come and stay with us?" Olivia looked shocked at Sarah. "You
want me to come and stay with you? Olivia said in surprise. "Yes. this
way, you can help us find a bus driver and help us background check
him. You could also help get the children to school. Katy obviously
likes you, and so I just know that the children will like you too."
Olivia thought for a moment. She said, "Well, it's all right with me,
but I have to check with my captain and see what he says." "I'll talk
to him if you want me to." "Okay." "I'm going to go and check on
Katy." "And I'll go and talk to my captain."