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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.
[trap music from car]
♪
- "What you doing, Chris?"
He says he's "just chilling."
- Send him a pic.
- Mm?
- Nah, not that one.
Yeah, now you talking.
- "I need you.
Now a good time to come over?"
He says yes. - Now me.
Yes, send it. - Ooh!
- "Your bro home? He want some too?"
- Oh, that's good. - Okay, okay.
[chuckles]
- 299 Madison Street.
- Good job. Go.
♪
- ♪ Move with it, I'm about to make them learn ♪
♪ Take them to school with it ♪
♪ I've got a flame that'll make them burn ♪
♪ They'll walk around "Who did it?" ♪
♪ Who did it? Who did it? Who? Bow! ♪
♪ Always gonna keep my lil tool with me ♪
♪ What is this guys won't do for me ♪
♪ Losing my shirt, it was $2.50 ♪
♪ Hey, ma, hey, ma
♪ Chuckin', all of these guys be chuckin' ♪
♪ Chuck it, lying, lying, bluffing ♪
♪ Talking, but it ain't about nothing, nothing ♪
- Yo, that is fire. - Wait, it's not done yet.
- That's your OCD kicking in. - [scoffs]
- It's ready.
- You sure? - Hell yeah.
[doorbell chimes]
- Chris is coming.
Girls are here. We'll post it later.
You know, I gotta be minty fresh.
- Hey, Tori.
[gasps] - [shouting]
- Uh-oh, caught you slipping, man.
Stash and cash, now. - Stop scaring my brother!
- Just do what he says. - Do what I say.
- Hey! - No!
No! [screaming]
- [shrieks] - Do what I say, boy.
- No!
- Boy, get up! You wanna live?
Take me to the safe.
Take me, go, open it up.
Come on, open it up. - [whimpers]
- Come on, let's go! - The safe.
All right, get it open.
- Boy, you better hurry up.
- Get it open, let's go. Let's go.
- Put the money in the bag. - Pick it up.
Come on. - All right, let's go.
Let's go, get out. Get out.
- [whimpers]
[panicked breathing]
- [laughs] - [shrieks]
Come on. We gotta go.
- No. - Let's go!
- No! Wait, come back.
Jasmine! - Jas, come on now!
Let's go! - Don't leave me here!
- Jas! - No, Jasmine!
[wheels squealing]
[whimpering]
- What is going on?
- Carisi's first case as riding DA.
He caught that triple homicide in Alphabet City last night.
- What does this have to do with SVU?
- He just wanted us to meet him here.
- All right. Carisi. - Hey, thanks for coming.
The perps are in the wind, except for an accomplice
who got shot in the leg, left behind at the scene.
But she's refusing to talk. - She?
- Yeah. Tori Warshofsky, 17.
There was a surviving vic.
Chris Miller says that she was the honey trap
that got the shooters inside.
- Did he ID the shooters?
- Chris claims he knew Tori, not the other girl there.
And the rest were in masks.
They took him away to surgery before I could get more.
- So Tori's under arrest? - Yes, and we need her to flip.
- Shouldn't this be on Homicide?
- Yeah, it should.
But the doctor found bruises on her body.
Some fresh, some old,
like she's been systematically beaten over time.
Also, the blood tests revealed
that she had two different STDs.
- So is she a suspect or a victim?
- I don't know.
But she flinched every time a male detective came near her.
[soft tense music]
♪
- Why am I under arrest?
I never wanted anybody to get hurt.
- Why don't you tell us what happened?
Do you know who shot you?
- No.
- 'Cause we know that you texted Chris for a date,
and then you showed up with a crew.
- He made me do it.
- Who did?
- I can't tell you.
♪
He'll kill me too.
[dramatic music]
♪
- TARU went through Tori Warshofsky's phone.
Chris Miller is telling the truth.
She texted him. She asked to come over.
- So she's in this pretty deep. - She was afraid.
She didn't want to ID them.
- Well, she's gonna have to.
She's looking at multiple murder charges.
- What do we know about this girl?
- Well, she's a senior at Edward R. Murrow High School,
made the honor roll, played the flute in the orchestra.
She lives with her mother. - Where's the mother now?
- Um, apparently, she's been in Poland for the last month.
She's on a flight back now.
- Does Tori have a record? - No, clean.
I mean nothing.
This home invasion makes no sense at all
in the narrative of her life.
- Well, she's been running with gangsters,
so she must have crossed over at some point,
- The hospital is ready to release her.
- Okay.
Pick her up. Bring her in.
- I know you've been through a lot, Tori,
but three people were killed during that robbery.
And under New York State law,
you'll be charged with three counts of homicide,
even if you didn't pull the trigger.
- What?
- You sent the text that set everything in motion.
- But you can help yourself out.
You can tell us who you were working with,
how we can find them.
- And I do that, I can go home?
- We can't make any promises.
But Counselor Carisi can speak with his bosses.
- And the more you help us, the more I can help you.
Do you understand?
- Yeah, okay.
- Tori, you said that somebody made you do that.
Who was that?
- Ah, well, I--I just know him as G.
We hang out in parks and trap houses.
- You move around a lot. How about a cell number?
- No, him and his crew change out their burners
every two days too.
- The guy that you texted, Chris,
said that there was another girl with you?
- Yeah, Jasmine Cruz. - Okay.
- But she didn't shoot anybody either.
- Okay, so G made her participate
or she pressured you?
- She used to be my friend.
- Do you know where G is?
Is there a restaurant that he likes or a club?
A basketball court?
- Well, G's a rapper. He goes by Gutta18.
- Is he signed with anybody?
- I don't know about that, but--but him and his crew have
this whole YouTube channel.
G's kind of a star.
- Got him. - Let's get it, let's get it.
[trap music from speakers]
- ♪ I've been gutta my whole life ♪
♪ It's just the way it had be ♪
- Okay, what am I looking at here?
- The music's called "drill." It's made famous
by Chief Keef out of Chicago. It's spread everywhere.
It's like competition on whose crew is the hardest.
♪
- I've seen this crap in Street Crime.
They be shooting each other up all over the city.
- Okay, well, that's clearly Tori.
What about--what about this girl right here?
Is that Jasmine?
- It could be. [computer dings]
- What is that?
- A new video just dropped.
- ♪ Bow! Couldn't slip, ha!
♪ Always stay strapped for the po, the po! ♪
♪ I never lack 'cause I know
♪ Always move, attack on a row ♪
♪ Gah, gah, bow!
♪ I like going in and out your crib, what? ♪
♪ That's something you'll never know, brah! ♪
♪ That's something I really did ♪
♪ That's something I really lived ♪
♪ Brah, brah!
- This looks like a confession.
- Look, Glock with extended mag,
that's probably the same strap they used in the robbery.
And check out G.
He's waving the vic's chain around.
- Can they really be that stupid?
- Man, these kids are clout chasing.
The dummies wanna be famous so bad,
they're doing our job for us.
- ♪ Every other night, I've been with it ♪
♪ We knew that you not the kite ♪
- Yeah, that's G and Jasmine.
Did this just drop?
- Do you know where this is, Tori?
- Yeah, that's the-- that's the alley outside
a trap house in Bushwick.
- You sound sure.
- Well, I've spent a lot of time in the back room.
- Doing what?
- ♪ That's something I really lived ♪
- How about I just give you the address?
[intense music]
♪
[indistinct chatter]
[people shouting]
[coughing]
- NYPD, let me see your hands. Get on the ground.
On the ground now!
- Hey, step away, or I'll shoot.
♪
- Caught you slipping, G. - Mm!
- Get on the ground.
- Well, can I get my damn pants first?
- Get down on the ground.
- That bitch dimed me out, right?
- Give me your hands. - She got you fooled.
Tori planned this whole thing.
And I can prove it.
♪
.
- Tori's tip paid off.
G turns out to be David Graham
from the Flatbush projects.
Sealed juvie record. We got him dead to rights.
- I'll tell the Eighth Floor. Has he lawyered up yet?
- He doesn't seem to care. - Keep me posted.
- Mr. Graham, Captain Benson. Got bad news for you.
The guns in your trap house
matched the ones used in a triple homicide.
- Congratulations, genius, you're gone.
- Cost of doing business.
- That's it? That's all you got?
- And Tori's damn sure gonna go down with me.
- Hold up, you and your boys
shoot up the whole place, and it's her fault?
- That bitch played her part, and she shouldn't get a pass.
- All right.
My curiosity is piqued. Go on.
- Crew that we hit, they disrespected us in this video.
That's how nobodies try to be somebodies,
and I wasn't gonna have it.
- So?
- So it had turned out that Tori
knew Milly2K's little brother Chris from school.
And I told her his bro was moving some weight.
Them dollars and drugs
in their videos weren't just for flash.
- Okay. So the robbery was your idea?
- Nah, man, it was Tori's.
She told us that she could text Chris,
say that she wanted to hook up, find out where they were.
And she said the kid couldn't resist her.
And she was right.
[tense music]
Nobody dies without her.
♪
- Mike was the gangster, not--not me.
It just wasn't my thing.
- What was your thing?
- I'm a movie geek. Horror, Kung Fu.
But I knew I'd never get to film school.
Mike said I could learn by cutting clips for his crew.
- How'd that go?
- I have my own style, and people liked it.
Other drillers started to hire me.
All because of my brother. He always looked out for me.
I got him killed. I can't even look at my mom.
- How is it your fault?
- Tori.
I'm the one who trusted her.
- Tori?
No one had to recruit that girl.
She was looking for action, following us around.
She got hooked. - On what?
- Drugs, sex, the videos.
She was down for whatever, the wildest one.
- Was she also down to turn tricks too?
- Me and G didn't even know Mike and Chris.
She was the connection. - All right.
So you were just along for the ride, huh?
- [scoffs]
What are you? Puerto Rican, Dominican?
Some kind of mix?
- What does that matter?
- Just didn't think you'd fall
for that white girl magic, that's all.
But I guess everyone does.
- How much longer do I have to stay here?
- This is better than Rikers.
- But I cooperated.
Those guys were at the trap house like I said.
- They were.
But G and Jasmine insist
that this whole thing was your idea.
- No, it wasn't.
- Chris confirmed. That's three against one.
- I told you, they made me do this.
- Well, then you're gonna have to explain--
how you met those guys,
how long you've been running with them,
and what exactly they made you do.
- Can I still get a lawyer?
♪
I met Jasmine when I was 14.
We smoked weed together and hung out
with these rap kids in the park by my school.
Then she introduced me to G,
and things changed.
He was cute, and he had this rep,
and I wanted to please him.
- What does that mean? - I let G have sex with me.
- My client was 15. He was 19.
That's rape.
- And then he wanted me to have sex with other guys for money.
- And that's trafficking.
- I tried to get away, but he beat me.
And one time, he cracked my skull.
- Did you go to the ER, to your doctor maybe?
- Yeah, Beth Israel, but I--I was scared.
So I lied, and I said that I fell down the stairs.
- What else did G do to you?
- It was like, uh, he had total control over my mind.
And I knew that he would beat me if I crossed him.
♪
But I--I also wanted him bad.
- None of this is your fault, Tori.
- By this time, I was stripping in a sleazy club in Queens,
and turning tricks in the room above it.
And I gave all the money to G.
- And through all of this, you're going to school?
Making good grades?
- Yeah, school was easy.
Nights were hard.
But I-I couldn't escape.
I had to do whatever G wanted.
He made me text Chris,
and he would have killed me if I didn't go along.
- Okay, so Tori is telling the truth.
She was clearly trafficked. - Yeah, looks like it.
But in New York, that is not a defense for armed robbery,
let alone murder.
- She was scared for her life. She was coerced.
- Not in the moment the crime was committed.
That's the legal standard.
- So there literally had to be
a gun to her head, that's the law?
- Guys, can we get a reality check here?
This is a triple homicide. - Yeah, we get it.
They're not gonna let her walk.
- Carisi, she's a cooperating witness, right?
You can't cut her a deal to testify against G and Jasmine?
- She did lead us to them.
There should be some kind of a deal here.
But this is my first case with the Homicide Bureau.
I don't know these people. I barely even met them.
- You'll figure it out.
- We have multiple suspects in custody.
They will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
- The victims' families and our city deserve no less.
That's all at this time.
- Ms. Maxwell, Mr. Baptiste,
can we talk on the way upstairs?
- Mr. Carisi, nice job on the arrest.
- Thank you. That's actually why I'm here.
We were only able to identify them so quickly
because Tori Warshofsky led us to them.
- Tony Warshofsky, the same girl
that walked the shooters into the apartment?
- Yes, but SVU's investigation has determined
that she was trafficked.
She was raped and beaten by Jasmine and G
for the last two years since she was 15 years old.
- The honor student, the one that the perps
and the vic say instigated the attack?
- Well, it's more complicated than that.
But to charge her with three counts of murder,
when she's cooperating with us, that seems like--
- The law. - Technically, yes.
But given the circumstance--
- Let me give you some circumstances.
G--rather Gutter18's--video has garnered a million hits
in two days.
- That's a lot of eyes on this case.
- I understand that.
- I cannot have this office charge a Black man
with triple murder and cut a deal
with the white woman who set the whole crime in motion.
- But it's not as black and white as you make it sound.
You got to hear her story.
- I'm sure it's tragic, but the jails are chock-full
of sad stories, and nobody gives a damn.
- Counselor, I've been told that you're ready
for the next step in your career.
This is a high-profile case, a chance to make your bones.
- I understand. I won't let you down.
.
- They won't give Tori a deal.
- If I hear the word optics one more time.
You know that Carisi got her a good lawyer.
She's got a fighting chance-- - Excuse me.
Are you Captain Benson?
- I am.
You must be Tori's mother.
- I'm Magda Warshofsky. I need to see my daughter.
I don't understand any of this.
She's being charged with murder.
That's not possible. Tori would never do that.
- Well, she wasn't the shooter, but she was involved.
- This is my fault.
I work so many hours cleaning offices.
I left her alone. I thought she was okay.
What is going to happen to her?
- David Graham, three counts of felony murder.
How do you plead?
- We plead not guilty, Your Honor.
- People on bail?
- This is a brutal triple homicide, Your Honor.
We request remand.
- So ordered. Bailiff, next case.
- Jasmine Cruz, Your Honor.
- Jasmine Cruz, three counts of felony murder.
How do you plead? - Not guilty, Your Honor.
We request the defendant be RORed.
- Again, Your Honor, we request remand.
- So ordered. Bailiff, next case.
Tori Warshofsky.
Miss Warshofsky, on the charge of felony murder,
how do you plead? - Not guilty, Your Honor.
My client is an innocent victim here.
She was shot as well.
- Save it for the trial. Mr. Carisi?
- Remand, Your Honor.
- So ordered. Bailiff, next case.
[somber music]
- George Smith, Your Honor. - Victoria!
[speaking Polish] - [speaking Polish]
- Miss Warshofsky, wait here. I'll be right back.
- So that's that?
The Eighth Floor doesn't care if she's a victim?
- All they care about is the optics.
- Ugh. - I'm sorry.
Look. maybe if Tori's story gets out,
that will be the tipping point.
- So we're done.
The rest is up to Tori's defense.
- Maybe not. We're SVU.
We can open our own investigation into G
as a rapist and as a trafficker.
♪
- I appreciate you coming in, Captain Benson,
but what am I looking at here?
- This is the ER reports. These are the x-rays
from Tori Warshofsky's admission a year ago.
She sustained a grade three concussion
and a skull fracture.
- Okay, and this supports her trafficking story how?
Did the hospital call the police?
- The attending nurse told my detectives
that they were about to when the boyfriend,
who signed her in, dragged her out,
a young Black male matches the description of G.
- Oh, here we go.
The generic "young Black male" strikes again.
- The nurse said she's willing to pick G out of a lineup.
She said that Tori was obviously terrified.
The nurse is also willing
to testify for the defense at Tori's trial.
- Again, counselor, whose side are you on here?
- SVU's sex trafficking investigation into G
has uncovered a credible pattern of abuse
and forced prostitution, correct?
- Yes. - You know better than I do.
But isn't that all Brady material?
- And when the defense sees it, they're gonna call me,
and I'm going to have to testify that, in my experience,
Tori Warshofsky was coerced
and acting under duress from years of abuse
when she played her part in these homicides.
- But the law is clear here.
- Yeah, it is. But juries can be swayed.
I mean, the press certainly can.
Come on, an immigrant's honor student daughter?
She's pimped out, she's beaten,
and then she's forced to stand trial with her abuser.
It doesn't get more lurid than that.
♪
- Okay, Mr. Carisi, you've made your point.
Don't oversell it.
- Thank you.
- Conspiracy in the second degree?
No, that's up to 25 years in prison.
- 25 years?
I'll be here longer than I've been alive.
- You'll be eligible for parole in ten.
You'll still have a future ahead of you.
- And if this goes to trial and you're convicted,
you could be looking at life.
- And I should tell you that Jasmine has been offered
the same deal. She's agreed to take it.
She's gonna testify against you.
- How is this even possible? - Tori...
Tori, three people are dead.
If you hadn't texted Chris, they'd be alive.
That's--that's just reality.
- I didn't know they were gonna kill anybody.
- And that's exactly what she's gonna say on the stand.
And she will testify to the rape,
the abuse, the trafficking.
- My office is cutting her break.
And if you don't take this deal now, it's off the table.
- Okay, Rollins, thanks.
Tori's not taking the deal
after Carisi jumped through all those hoops.
- I don't blame her. It's obvious she was coerced.
- But she's counting on the jury to believe that?
- Well, you don't?
- Look, man, we agree she got turned out,
but once she got a taste of the life?
I had a partner who got gutted
by this sweet faced working girl he was trying to help.
She stuck the blade in his stomach
and twisted it real slow. Anybody can go wrong, man.
- I don't think that's Tori though.
- Why is that?
- Because I get where she's at.
- How?
- Well, when I was 14,
I was running errands with this crew in Juárez, right?
Now, I wanted to be in with the leader, Hector,
any way I could. - Go on.
- So one day Hector says, "Little Joe, I need a favor."
They had to lure some rival into a location.
I guess this guy, Angel, was into boys.
- So Hector was trying to turn you out?
- No, no. I just had to get him there.
And I did, and Hector's crew was waiting for him,
and they took him in the bathroom
and they tortured him.
I think they were burning him.
I could hear this wailing in this high pitch.
Anyway, just like Tori, I got caught up.
And I swore to God that if he lived,
I would only do good from then on.
- So what happened?
- He lived.
Angel gave up his stash, saved himself.
I told my mother I was in trouble.
And, two days later, I was on my way to Nebraska.
Ended up in Washington Heights a year later.
My point is I got away with it, and I kept my promise.
I've never told anyone that.
- Well, I did my share of dirt back in the day.
And a lot of it,
I'm still trying to balance the scales myself.
Peace.
.
- We're reporting live from the hip hop home invasion
murder trial in lower Manhattan.
The question, was defendant Tori Warshofsky
a thrill-seeking teen who set this whole tragedy in motion
or a sex trafficking victim who feared for her life?
- I told you the press would be all over this.
- And you think I wouldn't have figured that out on my own?
We offered a deal.
- One that you knew that she would turn down.
- Honestly, Captain, we thought that Counselor Carisi
would be able to close that out.
Now, I am sure that he was a great detective for you,
but the jury is still out
on whether he'll be a good prosecutor for us.
Have a good day.
- The jury has heard from the police, ballistics,
the M.E.'s office about the brutality of this crime.
Ms. Cruz, can you tell us
what led to these victims being targeted?
- Yeah, it started with bad blood between G and Milly2K.
- Milly2K, that's Mike Miller,
who was murdered by a gunshot wound to the chest?
- Yes.
We saw one of Milly's videos with all this cash and coke.
Tori said she was friends with Milly's brother, Chris,
that she could get him to walk us inside.
Then we rob the place.
- Tory Warshofsky, the defendant?
- Yes, it was all her idea.
- But you went along with it?
- Yeah, Tori told me to send Milly a pic.
I'm sorry I did,
but I didn't think anyone was gonna get killed.
She's trying to play this good Catholic girl,
acting like she didn't know.
But she started the text,
and she was the first one through the door.
- Thank you, Miss Cruz.
- Ms. Cruz, you made a deal with the DA's office
for a reduced sentence in exchange for your testimony.
Yeah?
- Yeah, but I'm also under oath.
- Uh-huh. What is that saying?
First rat gets the cheese?
- Objection. - Sustained.
- Nothing further.
- I was finishing up a new video for my brother
when I got a text from Tori.
- Your Honor, the prosecution puts these texts into evidence.
Exhibit A, is this the text you received from Tori?
- Yes. I was excited.
I had a crush on that girl since, like, sixth grade.
I was like, "Let's get it."
- Can you tell the jury what happened when she arrived?
- I opened the door. She and Jasmine were there.
And then behind them, G and his crew pushed in with guns.
It just popped off. Everyone started shooting.
I got shot in the stomach, and I lost my spleen,
but that doesn't matter, 'cause my brother's gone
'cause of me.
- Murderer! You killed my brother.
- Delia, no. - Sit down, young lady.
I sympathize with your emotions,
but there will be order in this courtroom.
- Thank you, Mr. Miller.
I'm sorry for your loss.
[dramatic music]
- No questions.
- Mr. Miller. You may step down.
- Prosecution rests.
- We'll begin with the defense's case after lunch.
We're adjourned.
♪
- Tori testifies next.
- That's right.
- I don't think you wanna be here for that.
- I've missed too much. I'm not leaving her this time.
- G pressured me into having sex with him when I was 15.
- And by G you mean?
- Sorry, David Graham.
A few months later,
he made me start having sex with other men for money.
- Made you?
- Yeah, I-I tried to get away once, but he beat me.
One time he fractured my skull.
- Defense exhibit H. These are x-rays and photos
of when she was admitted to Beth Israel,
describing her injuries.
What happened after that?
- Well, I was terrified that he'd beat me again or worse.
So I went along with anything he wanted.
He forced me to turn tricks in the back room
of a strip club, trap houses.
It got rough.
I-I was gang-raped several times.
- Were there other things that G forced you to do?
- Yes, this robbery. It was his idea.
I just told him that I knew the guys from the video,
and it was all he could talk about.
And he wouldn't let up until I agreed to text Chris.
- What did you think would happen if you refused?
- Well, he said that he'd sell me
to someone else who would really work me over.
And he had a gun in the car.
I never wanted anyone to get hurt.
I-I feel sick about Chris and Mike.
But I was scared,
and I had to do it.
- Thank you, Tori.
- Miss Warshofsky.
When you first met Jasmine and G,
you were living at home with your mother, correct?
- Yes. - You went to school every day.
You maintained a straight-A average
and then you went home every night.
- I went home after. Yes.
- And you slept in your own bed,
and your mother was there?
- Most nights she worked.
- But you had access to a phone.
You could have called her at any time.
- Yeah.
- You could have told a teacher, a friend.
- I was afraid to tell anyone.
- If you were afraid for your life,
why didn't you call the police?
[dramatic music]
- I didn't think to do that.
- Ms. Warshofsky, did you drink alcohol with Jasmine and G?
- Sometimes. - You take drugs?
- To get through it, yeah.
- Didn't you tell the police in your statement
that G would buy you things?
Designer clothes, shoes, jewelry.
- I didn't want any of that.
- But you kept these gifts. You wore them to school, right?
- Well, he would have been mad if I didn't.
- Didn't you also say to the police in your statement
that you wanted G to love you?
- Objection. - I'll allow.
♪
- Yeah, I did like it at first.
- The drugs, the parties, the excitement, all of it?
- I--I know that this is
difficult to understand, but it--
- No, it's actually not that difficult for me to understand
because I'm a former SVU detective.
I know that G's a bad guy. He's charismatic.
He's manipulative.
I also know how hard it is
to say no to the life once you get a taste.
- I did say no. I tried to say no many times.
- Did you?
You went to Poland with your mother.
You took a two-week vacation from your supposed trafficking,
and then you came back and you resumed your double life.
You were never locked in a room.
You took drugs, you received expensive gifts,
and you partied was celebrity rappers.
In fact, you never told anyone that you were being exploited
until you were arrested for murder.
Isn't that true? - Objection.
- Witness may answer.
♪
- No, I never told anyone.
- So here is the problem, Ms. Warshofsky.
How is this jury supposed to know if what you're saying now
is the truth or just an excuse to avoid going to prison?
- Objection. - Withdrawn.
No more questions.
- The witness may step down.
This court is adjourned until tomorrow.
- That's the way it's done, Dominick.
Nice work.
♪
- I guess your boss is pretty proud of you.
- Hey, don't start with me, Rollins; I already feel sick.
- Never saw you as a bully. - Oh, well, I'm sorry.
I don't get to pick and choose when I do my job.
Are you mad at me about that?
- No, I'm not mad at you.
I'm sad at you.
- I don't even know how to take that.
- That cross might've gotten Tori convicted.
- You really think that could happen?
- Yeah.
There's--there's no one to corroborate her side.
- There might be actually.
Does anybody doubt that Jasmine was turned out the same way?
- Well, Jasmine's G's bottom girl.
They get trafficked first and hardest.
- She's made a deal with prosecution.
- She did.
And she may have told the truth about that night,
but not the whole truth.
♪
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- My client already made a deal.
I don't know what more she can tell you.
- She can explain these.
You've been to the ER four times in the past three years,
broken nose, fractured wrist,
split lip, burst eardrum.
- Guess I'm pretty clumsy.
- Or your pimp G knocked you around?
- That's the way I like it.
And me and G took it to the edge.
- Oh, you guys took it way past the edge.
And we both know exactly who he is.
And it's really rough for a girl like you.
The only way you can survive in that life
is to recruit new girls.
- Or maybe it's because you got jealous.
He gave you over for her.
Snow bunny gets to star in all the videos,
and you're just an extra. - You don't know me.
- We know Tori was looking for a friend,
and you turned her out, sold her off.
Was that your idea or G's,
or can you even tell the difference anymore?
- What are we doing here?
Is this a therapy session
or are you making some kind of an offer?
- We're trying to make a case against G.
And if Jasmine corroborates Tori's story,
we can take it back to the DA.
- Pass. I'm no snitch.
- Nah, you're pretty tough, huh?
I know you're scared of him right now.
[dramatic music]
Even though he's in jail, you still think that
somehow he can reach through that wall and hurt you.
- He placed that fear so deep in you that he controls you.
- Jasmine, look at me.
♪
Look at me.
♪
You're worth more than this.
♪
- No, I'm not.
I'm spending the next decade in here.
And what am I gonna be worth then?
- Then talk to us.
Come on, he's the bad guy, not you.
Help us.
♪
- SVU is talking to Jasmine?
She already took a deal. She testified.
- Yes, she did.
But they're looking to bring additional charges against G
for sex trafficking and rape.
- I assume you informed them the police don't press charges.
- They did not come to me before they talked to her.
But now Jasmine has made a series of new disclosures
to SVU on her own systematic abuse by G,
and the abuse of Tori that she witnessed.
- Counselor, Tori is on her way to conviction.
What are you doing? - I'm giving you a heads-up.
It's one thing for Tori to claim that she was trafficked.
It's another thing for Jasmine to get on that stand
and back Tori's story. Now we wanna avoid that.
We need to get in front of this.
We got to renegotiate her deal and Tori's.
- This office doesn't bargain against ourselves.
- I'm well aware of that. - And according to the law,
none of this has any bearing on Tori's guilt.
- We all know that the law is a lagging indicator.
Society is changing.
We no longer ruin a teenager's life
because he got caught with a joint.
We've moved on from prosecuting sex workers for prostitution
to prosecuting the Johns.
- I'm well aware too,
but you are at the end of a murder trial.
The only question is, are you a closer or not?
- These young women were brutalized,
and we all know it.
We use our discretion all the time
for the rich, for the connected.
Why--why can't we do that here?
- You didn't answer my question, Mr. Carisi.
- Let him finish, Philip.
♪
- Sometimes...
sometimes justice is about compassion.
And all due respect, the question should really be
what kind of office do you wanna run?
♪
- Today the People are dismissing the murder charges
against Tori Warshofsky and Jasmine Cruz,
and are pleased that they've accepted
a deal on robbery charges
that sentences them to 200 hours community service,
mandatory counseling, and ten years' probation.
In this day and age, this office has no interest
in prosecuting women for crimes when they are the real victims.
- The law is a lagging indicator.
Sometimes justice is about compassion and not punishment.
And that's what this office stands for.
- "Lagging indicator"?
That sounds like something you would say.
- I'm just glad they saw the light.
- Rough case. - Mm.
[reporters chattering]
Are we good?
- We are.
- Let's get out of here.
♪
- Please don't tell my mom.
It's the only bad thing I do now.
- Okay.
How are you doing otherwise?
- Looks like I'm gonna graduate on time.
Hoping for SUNY New Paltz.
- So you know why I'm here, Tori?
The counselor said that you missed your last two sessions.
It's a violation of your probation.
And I was thinking that
maybe a part of you believes
that you should be in prison.
- Maybe that is where I belong.
I miss the excitement of the life sometimes.
But then I think about Chris, about his whole family,
and how I'm out here free,
and they've lost everything.
Maybe I could have stopped it.
- It's natural for you to feel guilty.
- I actually don't feel anything.
[somber music]
- Tori, you were 14
when all of this started.
You had to put on a lot of armor to protect yourself.
- I feel like I can't take it off.
- You can, and you will.
♪
But it's gonna be uncomfortable.
It's gonna feel different.
You have to retrain your brain.
Please, be--be patient with yourself.
♪
- Gotta get back inside. - Okay.
Work your program, Tori.
Make the most of this chance.
Okay, it's the one thing I'm gonna ask of you.
- I'll try. - No.
You can do this, Tori.
I know that you can.
♪
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[dramatic music]
♪
[wolf howls]