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This story is based on real events and people which have been exaggerated for storytelling purposes. All names have been changed for privacy purposes.

Velasco and Rollins are sitting at their desk discussing Spider-Man: No Way home and Velasco says "Tom Holland all the way. Best Spider-Man ever". Rollins reponds "Nah I reckon Andrew Garfield, Tom is just too clean cut". "Nah man I'm Tobey all the way" Fin chimed in and Amanda responded "Yeah you're only saying that cause you're. Well how should I put this" and Fin replies with "Old" and they all chuckle.

A scraggy teenager boy walks into the station and stutters "e-e-xcuse me. I was wondering if someone can help me. Please". Olivia walks out and says "I'm Captain Benson, why don't you come into my office and tell me everything" and walks through as the detectives look on in shock. The teenager sits down and Olivia says "Okay why don't you start with your name, how old you are and then you can tell me what brings you here".

The boy responds "My name is Damian Gregory. I'm 15 years old and I've been sexually assaulted" Olivia leans in and says "Okay Damian, was it a stranger, someone you know. Where they male or female". Damian responds "Well it was in school last week. I don't have friends at school anymore so I thought I'd join the basketball team and I was never good at sport and I didn't do too well and they said I cost them the game. When we came back we were in the change room and the boys were giving me a hard time but I just ignored them. Then our coach Mr Franklin came in and I thought he was going to tell them off, teachers don't normally share a change room with the students. Then he said - Okay you guys know what to do. Next thing I know is 6 guys rush me, pull off my underwear while Mr Franklin gets a wet towel and starts whipping my while the rest of the boys laugh".

Olivia takes a moment and says "I'm really sorry to hear that, we're going to investigate this I promise. Have you told your parents". Damian replies "I did. They didn't believe me. They think I'm just making it up for attention". "Why would they think that" asks Olivia and Damian responds "Because I hate that stupid school! The kids, the teachers and everything. They think it's the most amazing place ever but I keep telling them it's the cheapest private school around and full of kids kicked out of other schools and dead beats. The same thing happened after I told them about Mr Berman".

Olivia looked inquisitively and said "Who's Mr Berman" and Damian responded "He used to be head of religious studies but this year they promoted him to deputy principal. When I was 12 he went past my bus stop and gave me a lift to school a few times. I thought he was nice but then one time he pulled over and asked to chat to me about my grades and that I wasn't doing well and if I wanted him to up my average I had to let him take photos of me naked". Olivia's eyes widened as she asked "And did you" and Damian nodded as tears ran down his face and said "I had no choice, I was just failing so hard, I needed to do something".

An hour later the team gathered in the meeting room after Olivia had an officer escort Damian home and Olivia began with the briefing. "So we have a 15 year old boy who claims that one teacher in his school took nude photos of him while another had the basketball team team hold him down while the coach whipped him". "And what makes this kid such a target, there must be what, 500 kids in the school" asked Velasco and Fin replied "You know how these private schools are. They let the rich, popular, smart or athletic kids run the yard while the ones that don't fit in just get thrown aside. Some of these people you put in a room of students and suddenly they think they're teenagers".

"Do we have anthying on the school" asked Olivia and Amanda responded pulling up a screen on the projector from her laptop. "Menal College, only been around for 23 years. Still a private school but one of the cheapest ones around with a lot of families being subsidized, living in the projects or single income parents but there's still some that come from wealthy families".

Fin replied "That's all good but doesn't really give us dirt, in fact it makes them look like a bunch of saints". Amanda responded not looking away from the laptop "Says here the school's been in the local paper a few times, something about struggling financially and lack of funds. The school has a high rate of drop outs and expulsion with an average of 40% of people who start in year 7 leaving before graduation. Two years ago a rival school opened in the area that poached some of their best teachers and a lot of parents followed along" then looking up at the team she said "School's not great but not a bad word about the teachers".

Joe Velasco jumped in and said "Okay but how do we know we can trust this kid? He says he told his parents and waited 2 years to out his deputy principal. I'm not doing any victim blaming here but how do we know this isn't some angry teenager playing us". Fin retorted with "Look Velasco I know you're new here and all but..." and didn't finish as Olivia cut him off and said "No Joe, you're right. There's every chance he could be playing us but that doesn't mean we disregard him, we're still going to ask questions. Rollins, Velasco you hit the school. Finn, you're with me. If he did tell his parents I want to hear what they have to say".