It was a pretty busy day for the squad. They had just finished up a case in court with a Step-Father abusing his Step-Daughter. Carisi did a good job with the case. The man ended up getting the maximum in jail and put on the sex offenders lits.
Olivia went into her offce to grab some of her things before she went home to Noah. As she was walking in, a girl around the age of 17 or 18 walked in. She was a little shorter than average hieght.
"Excuse me?" The girl said. "Is this special victims?" she asked Rollins.
"This is. How can I help you?"
"I'm Stacy and I would like to report an assault." she replied.
"Ok, follow me." Amanda said bringing her into the interview room. "Wait right here." she added and walked into Liv's office. "Hey Liv," she said knocking on her door. "I know you're about to leave, but a girl came in wanting to report an assault. I wasn't sure if you wanted to sit in on the interview or anything."
"Ok, yeah, give me 5-minutes and I'll be in." Liv said taking out her phone. She texted Lucy asking if she could keep Noah for a little bit longer. The two women walked in the interview room. "Hi, I'm Captain Benson, this is Detective Rollins." Liv said entering, they both sat down. "You wanted to report an assault?"
"Yeah." she replied.
"So why don't you start from the beginning," Amanda suggested.
"Well it happened in the spring. It only happened once,"
"Ok, can you tell me who assaulted you?" Liv asked.
"My principle, Mr. Wilson, he works at St. Peter's Day School."
"Did you tell anyone after the assault?"
"No. It wasn't until the other day I told my parents, they said I should come here."
"Did he do anything else to you?"
"No, well one time he let me sleep on his couch in his office."
"Alright, we'll open an investigation. In the mean time here's my card, and if anything else comes up call me."
"I will, thanks," she said taking Olivia's business card.
"What now?" Amanda asked.
"Well it's too late to go to the school now. But tomorrow we'll go talk to the principle."
Olivia went home and picked up Noah. They went home and Noah started on his homework and she started making pasta for dinner. After dinner Noah got ready for bed. As Olivia was cleaning up from dinner Elliot called. "Hey El," she said answering.
"Hey Liv, just thought I would call see how you're doing." Elliot said.
"I'm ok. We won the case today. He's getting the maximum."
"Congrats Liv," Elliot said happily.
"Yeah. We caught a new case too. A girl being assaulted by her principle."
"Oh, I'm sorry Liv. What school?"
"Mr. Wilson from St. Peter's Day School. We're going to talk to him in the morning."
Elliot didn't responde. "El? Everything ok?"
"Yeah, just that's the school the kids went to. Are you sure it's Mr. Wilson, he's like old, if not retired."
"Maybe it's his son who's the prinicple now." Olivia looked at the time. "El I have to go, it's getting kind of late."
"No I understand, see you later."
The next morning Fin and Amanda went to the school to go talk to Mr Wilson. "Hi excuse me," Amanda said walking in. "I was wondering if we could talk to Mr. Wilson."
"And can I ask who's asking?" the receptionist asked. Amanda held up her badge. "Mr. Wilson there are some cops here to see you." she said through the phone. "You can go on in."
"Hi Mr. Wilson-" Amanda said.
"Please call me Adam. Mr. Wilson is my father." Adam said.
"Alright, Adam," Fin mentioned, "We were wondering if you could tell us about your relationship with Stacey Robertson."
"Ah, Stacey she was a bright young lady. What do you want to know?"
"She told us you assaulted her," Amanda added.
"Assaulted her? No. She wanted it. And what we did she was 18 and no longer a student here."
"So you're saying that what happened was consentual? Even you allowing her to sleep on the couch. That couch," Amanda said pointing towards the couch.
"Yes. And the only reason why I allowed her to sleep on the couch was because her parents forced her to stay awake all night, to teach her, 'what it's really like pulling an all nighter'. She came to school half awake. I inivted her in to get an hours worth of sleep. If you really want an investigation, you should be looking into her parents. They're crazy, especially the mother."
"What do you mean?" Fin asked.
"Every heard of the YouTube Chanel Party of Eight?"
"No," they both responded.
"Here, let me show you." Adam said walking over to his computer. He opened up his laptop and searched their channel. He showed Fin and Amanda a few clips from their videos exploiting and abusing their children. "See, clearly child abuse."
"And you didn't report it?"
"Look, I can't prove that they're abusing and using their own children for money. But you can." he explained.
"Alright, we'll look into it." Amanda said. "But this doesn't mean your allegations go away."
"Just talk to Stacey, her parents probably told her to come to you guys."
Amanda and Fin went back to the precinct. Fin got started on some paperwork and Amanda told Liv what they found out. "Captain, we have a big issue." Amanda said.
"What's that?"
"Stacey's family, they're part of this big YoutTube vlogging thing, Party of Eight, or something," Amanda said putting their channel on the TV. "See, look, they're five year old daughter sucking a popsicale is the thumbnail. She's 5! And then they're prepubesent 14 year old is exploited with her ance issues. Look how uncomfortable she looks. Liv this is child abuse."
"Wait, click on that video?" Liv asked pointing at one specific video. Amanda clicked on it. The video was of Stacey at her high school graduation and her explaining on how she would sleep in the principles office when she was tired.
"Hey Captain," Jet said walking in. "Here are those forms you wanted,"
"Thanks Jet," Liv replied taking the papers from her.
Jet started walking away when she noticed the TV. "Why are you guys watching Party of Eight? Are you investigating them?"
"No, not yet," Liv replied.
"You should. They are crazy. The parents, specifically the mom abuses her kids. They're super religous too. I'm pretty sure the mom sent her son Dylan to this boot camp out in the wild because he was kicked out of school or something, or maybe he dropped out."
"How old was the son?" Liv asked.
"I don't maybe 16, 17, something like that."
"What else do you know about this family?" Amanda asked.
"They have like 2.5 million subscribers, how do you not know about these people? They're all over the place. I'm pretty sure the mom comes from a big family where a lot of them also do this daily vlogging thing. That's about it. But there's definitely something wrong going on here."
"Thanks Jet," Liv said. "I'll give you a call if we need you."
"Ok." Jet said and left.
"So what do we do now?" Amanda asked.
"First let's talk to Stacey." Liv suggested.
Fin picked up Stacey at her college class at Hudson and brought her to the precinct. He put her in the interview room. "Hi Stacey, thanks for coming." Liv said.
"Yeah, of course," Stacey replied.
"So we talked to Mr. Wilson today. He told us the sex you had was consentual."
"So you don't believe me?"
"No, we do. But we're just a little confused. You told us that you slept on the couch in his office, but he told us the reason was that your parents made you pull an all-nighter."
"Yeah, that's true."
"And is it also true that you had consensual sex with him?"
"Yeah. But my mom said when it's with someone who's higher up than you it's assault."
"It's only assaulting if you didn't want it. Did you want it?"
"Yeah, I did."
"Then it wasn't assault. But do your parents make you and your siblings do stuff that you don't want to do?"
"I mean yeah, sometimes, but they love us."
"So why were your forced to stay up all night?"
"Because I was complaining about how much homework I had, and that I was going to have to stay up all night. I was being overly dramatic, but my mom took it seriously. She made me stay up all night."
"Thank you," Liv said. Stacey left feeling uneasy. "We need to get someone in their house. I'll call Bell, see if we can use Jet and pose as Stacey's college friend."
