Chung-chung! We're at the apartment of Jane Tyler, and it's May third. Jane is a pretty woman with curly blonde hair and a nasty shiner on her left eye and cheekbone. She's in the middle of her statement: "And I'm sitting there holding this gun on him, and I can't -- even after everything he did to me, I can't pull the trigger." Benson tells her it's okay. Jane tells her that he took her father's watch. Her father's name, Leo, was engraved on it. Benson says that wasn't in Jane's police report. Jane says, "I know. They got here and I couldn't talk." Benson asks what else Jane left out of the report. Jane bursts into tears and puts her head in her hand. Benson sits next to her on the couch and asks if she was raped. Jane nods and sobs. He didn't use a condom, but Jane can't bring herself to say what we all know, so Benson asks, "Did he ejaculate on your stomach?" Jane answers in the affirmative and tells the rest: "Then he made me take a shower. I told the police I'd just gotten out of the shower when I found him." Benson asks why neither the rape nor the stolen watch is in the report. "The police were touching everything, looking for fingerprints, and I wanted them gone. It was so embarrassing. He kept saying, 'Isn't this the way you like it?' when he was -- pushing inside of me. I bought that gun for self-protection, and I didn't even --" She can't continue and just shakes her head in disappointment at herself. Benson knows what's up: "Jane, you did the one thing you're supposed to do when somebody threatens you: survive." WORD. Jane just cries some more.









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