Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Intersecting Lives (2016)

Krystal Joy Brown: Charisse McCabe

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• Charisse McCabe : Until today, Gary just... would make me go down on him, but I said I didn't want to do that anymore; I was back with my boyfriend. He got mad. He hit me. And then he raped me.

  Olivia Benson : How many times did this happen?

  Charisse McCabe : I don't keep count. At least once a week since I got out. I'm on his route. I thought it was bad enough when I was inside.

  Odafin Tutuola : Did he assault you in Rikers?

  Charisse McCabe : He never hurt me, but when he'd take me back from a visit, he'd make a stop in the chapel.

  Odafin Tutuola : There are no cameras there.

  Charisse McCabe : He knows what he's doing. He'd say "You do me a favor, I do you one."

  Olivia Benson : Meaning?

  Charisse McCabe : Meaning I get to see my kids. Don't get stripped searched, thrown into solitary. Don't get my teeth knocked in.

  Olivia Benson : Did you report this?

  Charisse McCabe : In Rikers? The COs and the gangs run that place. Every female inmate there knows that. Every time he'd do me, he'd say "Cry all you want, but you're just a broke, black crack whore. Who's gonna believe you?".

  Olivia Benson : I do, Charisse.

• Olivia Benson : I know that it seems like I'm just someone else coming into your life to take control.

  Charisse McCabe : No, I don't care about you. I don't care about me. I don't care about any of this.

  Odafin Tutuola : But you do care about your daughters.

  Olivia Benson : You keep saying that your life is over, that Munson owns you. I don't want that to be true for you, Charisse. Do you want those two little girls growing up to think there's no chance? Or do you want them growing up and seeing their mother fight?