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NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system,

sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous.

In New York City,

the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies

are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit.

These are their stories.

DOCTOR: You have to tell me, Shane.

Look, I can't.

This is not a cold. It's gonorrhea.

Whoever gave this to you could spread it to somebody else.

All right, but you won't tell my parents?

I'm not gonna tell anyone unless you say it's okay,

but I do have to tell the girl that you slept with.

Look, it's not a girl.

Okay, it's a woman.

Holden tells Phoebe he wishes he could stand in that field of rye

and catch the children about to fall off a cliff.

Anyone want to take a stab at what that means?

Mr. Bluth?

That he wishes someone was there to catch him?

Nice save.

Mrs. Trent? Yes?

Can we speak to you a minute?

Ryan, write three images from Holden's dream on the board

while I'm outside.

If you can stay awake long enough.

How can I help you?

Detectives Benson and Stabler.

Please turn around, face the wall

and put your hands behind your back.

I'm being arrested? For what?

Statutory rape.

I didn't rape anyone.

You had sex with a 15-year-old boy.

That's against the law.

Did Shane tell you that?

No, his pediatrician called the child abuse hotline

after Shane told him that you had seduced him.

That's not what happened.

Shane raped me.

Mrs. Trent's my English teacher, and she came on to me.

We had sex. She just...

SHANE: She made me do it. Made me do it.

I begged him not to, but he forced himself on me.

STABLER: When?

About two months ago.

Where?

In Shane's apartment.

BENSON: In Shane's apartment?

What were you doing there?

Tutoring him for his PSATs.

PSATs. I wanna...

I wanna go to one of the Ivies.

I called Mrs. Trent. She said she could come Tuesdays after school.

My wife and I both work.

We had no idea what happened.

How many times did you have sex with your teacher?

Just once.

Where'd she come on to you?

My bedroom.

SARAH: He shut the door

and started stroking my face.

I told him to stop, but he wouldn't.

SHANE: She started saying all this weird stuff.

Like, you know, how she can't stop thinking about me

and how she's in love with me.

He pinned me against the wall so I couldn't get away.

Then he pulled my skirt down.

Then she was touching me and she was kissing me,

and I guess I couldn't help it, you know?

I got excited.

Sarah, did you save the clothes

that you were wearing that day?

I threw out the torn blouse and I washed everything else.

Why would you do that if you were innocent?

Because I didn't want my husband to know.

Do we have anything besides his word against hers?

Only that she was fired from her last teaching job.

The school wouldn't be more specific.

We're gonna need a subpoena for her records.

NOVAK: What about Shane?

Honors student, no history of acting out, clean record.

Not the kind of kid who suddenly becomes a rapist.

NOVAK: Doesn't leave us with a whole lot of options.

Mr. and Mrs. Mills, this is Captain Cragen, A.D.A. Novak.

Did she confess?

Well, she claims Shane raped her.

No! I swear, I didn't.

She is going to jail, right?

Not tonight. We don't have enough evidence to arraign her.

That woman took advantage of him!

And our best chance to convict her is to build a strong case

before we go to court.

Three days.

You arrest her, or we'll go to the media

and say that you let our boy's rapist go free.

She's good. We can't shake her.

Shane's sticking to his story, too.

I don't suppose Sarah copped to having gonorrhea.

She said, "No way."

CRAGEN: Can we get a court order to test her?

Well, if she's been treated, there's no way to prove she ever had it.

Unless she has some leftover antibiotics in her apartment.

Which would at least tell us whether or not she's lying.

I'll get a court order in the morning.

Ask Doc Warner which meds to look for.

Bedroom's clean. You got anything?

Yeah. Samples of Augmentin.

That's on Warner's list.

And six of these. No labels.

We'll have the lab test it.

JIMMY: Hey, you finally finished fixing that outlet?

Who the hell are you?

Police, Mr. Trent.

What are you doing here?

We're executing a search warrant.

For what?

You haven't spoken with your wife?

No. Is she all right? What happened?

One of her students accused her of rape.

Okay. Well, the kid is lying. All right?

There is no way that my wife would have sex with a student.

Was she taking these for gonorrhea?

What? Are you crazy? No!

She has a urinary tract infection.

Look, what'd you do?

Did you put her in jail?

We released her last night.

You haven't seen her?

No.

I'm a firefighter. I'm just off a 48-hour tour.

Sarah should be at work.

The school suspended her.

Oh, my God.

She didn't pick up when I called last night.

I just figured she was sleeping.

If she tries to hurt herself...

Has she ever attempted suicide?

Once.

She used to cut herself, you know, on her arms.

Before we got married, she...

It just went straight to voice mail.

Did it ring first?

Four times.

Well, then her phone's still on.

We may be able to track her.

What'd you get?

Ruben Morales, meet Mr. Manners, Chester Lake, my new partner.

MORALES: Your gal's somewhere in that building across the street.

That's the best you can do?

We just drove around for two hours

tracking down that cell signal.

Well, yeah, and there's a couple hundred offices in that building.

How are we gonna know which one?

With this gizmo.

It's accurate to within 5 feet.

Signal's coming from down there.

Family Planning Services?

You know, they give out birth control.

And do abortions.

Can I help you? Where's Sarah Trent?

I can't give out patient information.

FIN: Look, lady, unless you want us to bust in there...

Try it and I'll have our lawyer here in two seconds.

He's right down the hall.

Great. I'll go tell him you're obstructing justice.

She can't talk to you now anyway. She's in surgery,

and you're not coming in without a warrant.

It's empty!

I'll check across the hall.

Okay, I got this one.

Hey, have you see any judges around?

It's an emergency, I need someone to sign a warrant.

Judge Bradley, he just headed for the elevator.

Thanks. Olivia?

You got one?

This way!

If we can catch him.

Judge Bradley!

Late for lunch, Ms. Novak?

I need you to sign this. Oath.

I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth

and nothing but the truth, so help me God.

Sarah Trent committed stat rape with one of her students.

She's having an abortion as we speak.

Why do you need the products of conception?

For DNA, to prove who the father is.

Your warrant states both parties admit sex took place.

That fetus is the only physical evidence of a rape.

The information in this warrant is truthful?

It is.

Based on your personal knowledge, Detective?

It is, Your Honor.

It better be.

Thank you. Go.

Fin, warrant's on the way.

STABLER: Where's Sarah?

She got out of surgery about an hour ago.

Must still be in recovery.

Okay, get that over to the M.E.'s office.

Have Warner rush the DNA.

Sarah Trent,

you're under arrest for trying to hide evidence.

Please,

don't tell my husband.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can

and will be used against you in the court of law.

You have the right to an attorney.

If you cannot afford one...

That's not... one will be appointed to you.

Okay?

We need a doctor over here.

JIMMY: Where's Sarah?

Hospital called and said she was unconscious.

Did she try to hurt herself?

No, she fainted.

From what?

The doctor said she had low blood pressure.

How did you know that Sarah was here?

Abortion?

She had an abortion?

Jimmy...

They're lying, right?

Sarah, you would never have an abortion.

I had to. You had to?

You're gonna try to justify this?

I was raped.

It doesn't matter, Sarah.

You killed a child!

Hey, hey, hey! Take it easy.

Jimmy, don't! Please don't hurt him.

Don't hurt him!

BENSON: You okay?

I got him. I got him.

You had no right.

I'm sorry!

I didn't know what else to do!

She took a life and you are arresting me?

I don't see how this makes sense.

Well, I'll clear it up for you.

Assaulting a cop is against the law.

Abortion isn't. Yeah, well, it should be.

Listen to me now, I'm Catholic. I understand...

Then you believe abortion is a sin.

I believe I just saw your wife up there begging you for forgiveness.

We've been trying to get pregnant for so long.

How can I forgive her?

Maybe by realizing how desperate

she had to have been to do what she did.

You know that kid raped her.

Now, listen to me. Sarah's still in trouble.

She needs you.

What are you doing?

Showing you forgiveness. Go to your wife.

Look, I'm sorry. I just lost it in there.

I know.

Change of heart?

Look, he's got enough problems without an assault collar.

He sure does.

Warner just called with the DNA results.

Shane was the baby's father.

Doesn't prove anything.

Now you don't think she's guilty?

Look, you saw the desperation on her face.

'Cause she knew that it wasn't her husband's.

I just got a fistful of why she wouldn't wanna tell him.

Then why didn't she get an abortion before we collared her?

And what were those antibiotics doing in her apartment?

He told us.

That she had a urinary tract infection.

You think she'd tell him if she had gonorrhea?

Probably didn't tell him why she was fired from her last job, either.

Seems she took male students to lunch despite warnings to stop.

You came all the way up here just to tell us that?

No, to show you these.

LAKE: Sent to us anonymously.

Still think she's innocent?

"Docket ending 709, People v. Sarah Trent.

"One count each, Rape in the Second Degree

"and Obstructing Governmental Administration."

Russell Hunter for the defense.

My client pleads not guilty,

and for the record, isn't Rape Two a little over the top here?

Excuse me?

I mean, this boy is a victim only in the statutory sense, isn't he?

If I heard right, you just admitted

your client raped a 15-year-old student.

Get your ears checked. I'm saying no one reported

this so-called rape until two months after the fact.

His doctor's the one who called the police.

Prompting Mrs. Trent to destroy

the evidence by secretly aborting her fetus.

Are you saying my client should have asked

the Government's permission to terminate her pregnancy?

Last time I checked, Roe v. Wade hasn't been overturned yet.

Your Honor, the People are hardly trying to dispute

Mrs. Trent's right to obtain an abortion.

Nevertheless, Ms. Novak, I am dismissing the count

of Obstructing Governmental Administration.

I will hear your application on the rape charge.

Mrs. Trent is not a flight risk.

The People request $50,000 bail.

HUNTER: We object, Your Honor, and ask

that the warrant for the products

of my client's conception be suppressed.

I signed that warrant myself, Mr. Hunter.

On what grounds?

That the seizure of the fetus violates her First Amendment right

to freedom of religion.

And you, sir, are violating the limits of my patience. Counsel approach.

This is not a Chinese restaurant, young man.

You don't pick from Column B if your Column A defense doesn't hold up.

Your Honor, Sarah Trent is a devout Catholic.

She believes life begins at conception

and that even a fetus has a soul.

If she believes that even a fetus has a soul,

then she must believe that abortion is murder.

That's between my client and her God.

But the fact remains, the police seized the fetus

without asking my client whether she wanted to bury it,

abrogating her constitutional right to practice her religion.

Your Honor, this is ridiculous.

This is dangerous ground, Ms. Novak.

I'm not ruling without some research.

But it would help if I knew whether the police made any effort

to find out if Mrs. Trent wanted to bury her fetus.

Of course we didn't ask. Should we have?

According to Sarah's attorney, yes.

If you're gonna abort, then why get all religious afterwards?

It's all about balance.

What? What are you talking about?

Your spirit lives in every part of your body.

Now, if you remove a small part of that,

it knocks you off balance.

Mohawks believe the only way to get it back

is to give the body part a proper burial.

I've heard of Catholics burying a fetus after miscarriage.

NOVAK: This is a legal ploy.

Sarah's lawyer's trying to bury our case.

Yeah, well, he's got his work cut out for him.

Did you find something out?

The lab did. The stuff in those ampoules

from Sarah's apartment is called Lupron.

It's used for in vitro fertilization.

We subpoenaed the Trents' medical records from their fertility clinic.

He's the reason they couldn't conceive.

Slow swimmers.

So Sarah knew Shane had to be the father.

Still doesn't prove which one of them

is telling the truth about what happened.

You said Sarah was a recovering cutter?

According to her husband, yeah.

It's a symptom of borderline personality disorder.

Many of the female teachers who have been

in the news for seducing their students

exhibit varying degrees of BPD,

and borderline personalities can't take rejection.

Which means what?

It means that if she really is in love with Shane,

I don't think she'll be able to stay away from him.

So, let's sit on her, see where she goes.

Let's cover our asses.

We'll sit on both of them.

Shane went in two hours ago and hasn't come out since,

and no sign of anyone else.

Any action there?

FIN: Just a bunch of media vultures circling for Sarah.

While she sneaks out through the basement.

Over there.

Wrong hair color.

It's a wig. That's Sarah.

Belay that last transmission.

Elvis just left the building.

Check it out. Shane's on the move, too.

BENSON: Any idea where Sarah's headed?

Looks like Sarah's taking the A-train.

Two to one, she's headed to the subway.

I'm gonna follow on foot.

Kid's making it easy.

He just got on the bus. We're on him.

Is Sarah going uptown or downtown?

Fin? Do you hear me?

Radio must not be working underground.

10-4. Sit tight till he calls in.

LAKE: Roger that.

As long as we don't lose Shane, we're all right.

LAKE: You still on Shane?

He's just getting off the bus and heading into the Lydia Hotel.

LAKE: That's a couple of blocks from the A-train.

She may already be there.

Five minutes?

Let's see if we can catch them in the act.

Hey, the kid who just came in here, what room?

What kid?

The 15-year-old we're gonna tear this place apart looking for.

Room number.

211.

Was a woman with him?

She showed up first.

What...

BENSON: Put your clothes on, Shane.

Sarah, get up.

My name's Felice.

Shane's with a pross. Sarah's not here.

You shouldn't play with hookers, Shane.

That's how you get the burn.

I was punk'd. You're a rapist.

No, I'm not.

Did you enjoy putting your teacher through hell?

What are you talking about? I didn't do it. Dirtbag.

It was my first time with him.

So how'd you two meet?

He e-mailed my boss.

FIN: Two to one, I got Sarah.

Where?

FIN: She's going to church.

I guess she wanted to avoid being recognized

at her neighborhood parish.

Where'd Shane find the hooker?

BENSON: The Internet.

He said he wanted a massage before we did it.

You know, to help him relax.

Kid was a nervous wreck.

He ask you for anything else?

He wanted me to fight him.

You know, like he was forcing me.

Said he saw it on some Russian website.

But he kept saying he was sorry.

That your first time with Shane?

What's going on here?

FIN: We've been pulling them in since last night.

What? Shane slept with all these women?

A bunch of times with some.

Excuse me. Monique, where you think you're going?

Hey, Casey. Check this out.

STABLER: Go ahead.

I gave the kid the clap.

But I told him to get himself checked.

Well, aren't you the poster girl for public health.

There's more. Just wait. Liv?

Listen to this, go on.

Last time I screwed Shane,

he was bragging that he did his teacher, ripping her clothes off

just how he practiced with me.

Practice makes perfect.

Sarah Trent wasn't fired from her last job for taking boys to lunch.

She was their faculty advisor, it was legit.

So what happened?

Well, principal was putting moves on her.

He did a preemptive strike so she wouldn't out him.

Same thing Shane did when he accused Sarah of rape.

Bibi here just told us where Shane got the idea for rape.

It's enough for me.

I'll dismiss the charges against her.

You go collar Shane.

Shane Mills is not a rapist.

New client, Sophie?

DEVERE: His parents retained me last night.

They're not kidding when they say he's got a problem.

He's a bona fide sex addict.

Which in no way excuses what he did to his teacher.

It will when I prove that he was powerless

to stop himself from attacking her.

NOVAK: All that matters is whether Shane Mills

knew raping Sarah Trent was wrong.

Your Honor, the filth that the police found on the defendant's computer

would make Larry Flynt blush.

This kid spends most of his free time

looking at porn on the Internet.

Every adolescent boy in America looks at Internet porn.

But I would venture that most of them haven't slept

with a couple of dozen hookers.

Excessive as that is, Ms. Devere,

it's hardly grounds for an insanity plea.

We're not pleading insanity.

My client acted under duress.

Nobody put a gun to his head.

The gun was inside his head in the form of uncontrollable impulses

that the neurotransmitters in his brain won't let him resist.

Your Honor, if you let her use this defense,

you're opening the door for every pedophile caught raping a child

to claim his brain made him do it.

Shane Mills is not a pedophile.

His record is clean.

He's a straight-A student.

This is a good kid.

Who raped his teacher

and then accused her of seducing him to cover it up.

Which is why neither of us wants

a conviction overturned on appeal.

You have your defense, Ms. Devere.

I'd be happy for the People's expert

to give his own psychiatric examination of my client.

I was on the computer one day when I was 10, and this pop-up appeared,

and it was a video of this guy and girl screwing.

Do you remember how that made you feel?

Yeah, I got excited.

You know, I wanted to do what they were doing.

Do you think that's why you spend so much time

looking at porn on the Internet?

Yeah. It's amazing. Every day, I just...

I find something new.

Shane's responses indicated an early predisposition

toward sex addiction,

so I drew blood and I ran a series of genetic tests.

The results showed Shane has extra copies of his DRD4 gene,

which helps control one's sex drive,

and a defect in his 5-HTT gene,

which regulates the transport of serotonin.

How many times a day do you masturbate?

I don't know. Five, six, sometimes more.

Even when you're at school?

Yeah, but if I'm in class and I get the urge,

I just ask to go to the bathroom.

HUANG: We did imaging studies on Shane's brain using functional MRI.

His nucleus accumbens, the addiction

and pleasure center of the brain,

and his amygdala and hypothalamus,

associated with aggression and sex drive,

all showed higher than normal baseline levels of metabolic activity.

When we showed him images as tame as women in bathing suits,

those same areas of his brain lit up

like fireworks on the Fourth of July.

How did you feel when you found out you had gonorrhea?

I was scared.

Scared enough to stop having sex with prostitutes?

I tried. I couldn't.

Engaging in high-risk behavior

and knowing the danger is the Rosetta stone of addiction,

and Shane's is way out of control.

Is it possible it caused him to rape Sarah Trent?

Well, it would be rare. I've never seen it.

But, yes, it is possible.

Should Shane be held accountable?

Yes, or you'd have to excuse anyone who commits a crime

and knows that it's wrong.

Thank you. Nothing further.

Doctor, what role does the brain's

prefrontal cortex play in behavior?

It's associated with decision-making and impulse control.

And that part of the brain is fully developed at what point in life?

About age 20.

So a 15-year-old like Shane wouldn't have the same ability

to control his impulses as, say, you or I.

Well, anyone who has children knows that to be true.

Given Shane's genetic predisposition,

isn't it possible that Shane knew what he was doing,

but it was physically impossible for him to stop himself?

What you're asking is the point at which

biological drives overpower reason,

and I can't answer that.

I don't think anyone can.

Why was Shane put on Prozac after he was arrested?

I'm not his psychiatrist. I don't know.

But you do know that an SSRI antidepressant such as Prozac

would raise his serotonin levels

and curb his insatiable appetite for sex,

isn't that correct?

HUANG: It can, yes.

So, if Shane's condition is treatable,

do you think that he belongs in prison?

Objection.

Withdrawn.

Nothing further, Your Honor.

DEVERE: Shane, did you force Sarah Trent

to have sex with you against her will?

Yes, I did.

Can you tell us why?

I don't know.

I just... I couldn't stop myself.

No further questions, Your Honor.

People's eight, Your Honor.

Now, these pictures of Sarah Trent were sent to the police,

found on your computer.

Did she pose for you?

No.

Then where did you get them?

I took her pictures from our yearbook,

and I Photoshopped them onto somebody else's body.

NOVAK: Was this before or after you raped her?

After.

To cover up what you'd done?

Yeah.

Now, how many times did Sarah Trent beg you to stop

when you were raping her?

I don't know. I didn't count.

Oh, no, you were too busy.

I told you I couldn't stop.

What? You couldn't or you didn't feel like it?

I don't know, okay?

I didn't think of it as rape.

You didn't? Now, is that because you know that rape is wrong?

Of course I know rape is wrong!

So, the whole time she was begging you to stop raping her,

you knew what you were doing was wrong.

I just I wish it didn't happen, okay?

I wish it didn't happen.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

No further questions.

PETROVSKY: You may step down, Mr. Mills.

We're in recess until tomorrow.

I need you to do something for me.

I don't know what to say.

Me, either.

Then why'd you come?

Because I'm trying really hard to understand what happened.

I just... I screwed up.

I just... I really hope you can forgive me.

I can't yet, Shane.

But I'm...

I'm working on it.

The medication that they gave me helps.

It stops me from having those feelings all the time.

You mean about sex.

Yeah.

Are you gonna stay on them?

I'm gonna do whatever they tell me.

I just... I don't ever wanna hurt anybody again.

Please don't send him to prison.

I can live with my pain,

but I can't live with destroying Shane's life

if there's a chance he can be helped.

Casey, you know it's the right thing.

He pleads guilty to the rape and assault three.

He does 18 months’ probation in a private, secure treatment center

for juvenile sex offenders.

And if he successfully completes his treatment?

The judge dismisses his rape charge, his record's clean

and he does not spend the rest of his life as a registered sex offender.

You screw up, though, and you're doing the full monty,

seven years for the rape.

She's giving you a second chance, Shane.

Don't blow it.

I promise. I won't.

(PHONE RINGING)

Hello.

Yeah, I'll be right there.

SHANE: He just... He jumped me in the hallway

and then he pushed me into my room.

Did you see him?

No. He pulled a laundry bag over my face.

He kicked the crap out of me first,

and then he threw me on my bed and he raped me.

Would you recognize his voice?

No. He didn't say a word.

How could you let them do this to me?

What time was Shane Mills assaulted?

I'm not sure. My second-in-command called me at midnight.

That's Shane's room.

This is a crime scene.

Why is there a garbage can out here?

Hey, you! You get out, now.

The bed's been stripped.

We've lost all of our trace evidence.

Who is in charge, Mr. Feldron, when you're not here?

My night supervisor, but she went home.

Well, then get her ass back here,

and I want every surveillance tape

you have within the next five minutes.

I'm sorry, but our security system has been down for months

and corporate won't pay to fix it.

Well, then how do you propose we find the perv that raped that boy?

Take your pick. I've got 50 hard-core sex offenders locked up here.

Then I'm gonna talk to every single one of them tonight.

Now you get a guard posted on this door.

I want whoever did this to burn.

Are you sure? Because I wouldn't want to punish someone

who's not responsible for his actions.

Don't you dare put this mess off on me.

I put Shane in this mess because I bought into your sideshow in court.

I gave Shane my best defense. I did my job.

Do yours.

MAN: Treatment center?

Why don't you try waste treatment center.

This place is a cesspool.

NOVAK: Why is that?

Because everybody's doing it.

And when the guys aren't out having sex with each other,

then they're off boffing the staff, men and women.

Which staff members?

What? Are you crazy, lady?

They'll cut my balls off if I give you names.

Let's just say it goes to the top, all right?

The administrator?

No, Feldron's clean. Grab-ass starts at night when he's gone,

and there ain't nobody around to stop it.

It was worse than usual tonight.

Where were the guards?

Where they always are, catching Z's in their office.

It gets scary around here, man.

That kid Shane's not the only kid that's been raped.

How many others?

I hear two.

Do you have any idea who might have done them?

Maybe.

You can tell me.

Everybody else thinks we deserve this crap.

What makes you all bleeding-heart caring?

Nobody has the right to touch you.

Pete was hanging around.

He usually doesn't work nights.

Who's Pete?

One of the guards. I saw him at 7:30.

He's usually gone by 4:00.

Pete Lincoln wasn't approved for overtime yesterday.

Then why was he here for more than three hours after his tour ended?

I'll check, but Pete's as clean as they come.

He's a retired cop from Florida.

First one I'd rule out as a suspect.

Well, is there anyone who works here that you wouldn't rule out?

I don't think I like your tone, Ms. Novak.

Answer the question.

We don't hire criminals.

Really? Then who's responsible

for the two other clients that were raped?

Those animals are doing it to each other.

They're predators.

That kid tonight got what he deserved.

That is right, because he and the rest of them

are nothing but human garbage.

Get away from me. I am gonna find whoever's been

brutalizing these kids, and I'm gonna prove

you've been protecting him to save your own ass, you son of a bitch.

Nobody reported being attacked. BENSON: Hey!

NOVAK: Or maybe you just ignore them because they're animals.

BENSON: What the hell are you doing?

She's crazy.

Make sure you get personnel files

on every one of his employees. Now.

What the hell are you doing?

He ordered his men to clean up the crime scene.

That's my problem. Not yours.

These people didn't even call the police.

That's obstruction of justice!

And grabbing his shirt is assault,

which I, unfortunately, just witnessed.

What are you gonna do? You gonna arrest me?

I may not have a choice.

Casey, you're drowning here,

and unless Stabler can convince that guy to change his mind,

I can't even throw you a life jacket.

I'm a big girl. I know how to swim.

How's Shane?

About to go into surgery.

STABLER: Why?

To put his arm back together.

The bastard who raped him shattered it.

You can't be blaming yourself for this.

Why not?

I convict kids like Shane all the time,

and I have no idea what happens to them afterwards.

I should have checked before I put Shane into that hell hole.

That's not your job.

Whose is it?

Is it yours? The Court's? Legislature?

The best way you can protect these kids

is by nailing the son of a bitch who did this to Shane.

I'm not gonna be much use to you after I take that collar

for assaulting Feldron.

Well, when I told him what a world of hurt

that would bring on him, he backed off.

Thanks.

Doc said the rape kit had plenty of hairs and fluid for DNA.

Bad news is, we can't swab every Kastner Center employee

without probable cause.

So, help us find it in the personnel jackets.

They call this a personnel jacket?

Where's the background investigation, evaluations, fitness reports?

All kept at Kastner's headquarters in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

What kind of corporation is this?

One that states pay to run their prisons.

And it got into the sex offender rehab business a couple years back.

This guard has a menacing and misdemeanor possession of crack.

I'll raise you one criminal mischief and two stolen cars.

Everyone who works in that place has a record.

All except the administrator, the night supervisor

and that guard, Pete Lincoln.

Let's see, 22 years with the Tampa PD,

three years as a guard at the Gulf Coast

Sex Offender Rehabilitation Center.

Then why come all the way up here

for a job that pays minimum wage, huh?

Special Victims, Detective Stabler.

Apparently that's the going rate for everyone at Kastner

except for management.

Must be how they attract the cream of the crop.

Warner just called. DNA's back.

NOVAK: We get a hit?

Earl Romaine, 43, raped a 13-year-old boy.

I don't remember seeing his name

on the list of Kastner Center employees.

Warner's e-mailing his mug shot and rap sheet now.

Can't wait to find out how this dirtbag got in there to rape Shane.

Maybe that guy let him in.

What? Pete Lincoln?

This is the real Pete Lincoln,

and he still works at that Sex Offender Center in Florida.

Well, if that's not Pete Lincoln...

BENSON: It's gotta be Earl Romaine impersonating him.

Okay, it's 2:00 and Romaine's tour starts at 4:00.

He lives in Greenpoint.

What are you staring at?

One sorry-ass white boy.

You got a problem with me, spook, bring it.

That's Detective Spook to you, Romaine.

Earl Romaine, you're under arrest for the rape of Shane Mills.

Screw you.

Sorry, you're not his type.

NOVAK: Romaine stole Guard Pete Lincoln's identity

so he could get a job at the Kastner Center

where he'd have unlimited boys to rape.

Romaine's a registered sex offender in Florida.

The Kastner Center would have found that out

if they'd bothered to run his fingerprints.

We found dozens of e-mails proving

the people who ran the Kastner Center

knew the two other rape victims

had identified Romaine as their attacker,

but did nothing to stop him.

Now, after the Governor found out what had happened,

he ordered all Kastner Center clients moved to juvenile detention,

and the place closed down for good.

We're looking into filing criminal charges

against the Kastner corporation.

Shane didn't finish his treatment.

Are you going to send him to jail?

Ms. Novak and I worked out a deal.

I'm recommending to the judge that Shane be released on probation

and continue his treatment on an outpatient basis.

Same rules apply, though.

You mess up and you're going to prison.

Understand?

Yes.

I really hope I'm not prosecuting Shane

for another rape two years from now.

You don't think the treatment will help him?

It didn't help the scum who raped him.

Romaine's an adult. He needs to be locked up

until we can find a way to fix him, if there is a way.

Shane's a kid. He deserves a second chance.

SARAH: Ms. Novak?

It's all over the news.

Is Shane the kid who got raped at the Kastner Center?

I'm afraid so, yes.

It's not your fault, honey.

He's gonna be okay.

We're actually about to go question his attacker.

Is it true that the Kastner Center is offering

Shane a million dollars not to file a lawsuit?

I hadn't heard.

Yes. Yeah, that's true.

JIMMY: How crazy is the law?

That kid raped my wife

and he gets a million bucks.

What does Sarah get?

She gets nothing, right?

Let's get out of here.

I don't blame him.

You know he didn't mean to hurt her.

Hey! It's not his fault that the law hasn't caught up to science.

Hey. The law's one size fits all.

It's not customized for every brain.

Shane knew right from wrong.

BENSON: You're sure you don't want a lawyer?

Don't need one.

I'd rethink that if I were you, Earl.

It is your DNA inside Shane Mills.

This time you're never getting out.

Too bad all that treatment you had down in Florida didn't take.

I guess I'm just wired bad.

I can't help myself.

You know, like that kid I raped.