A twelve year-old boy, Sean Hamill, is dumped on the hospital steps with a stab wound that leaves him paralyzed. The van used to dump him belongs to the pastor at Catholic School Sean attends. Stabler and Benson look to, Charlie, a boy the parents say beat up Sean the week before. Charlie beat Sean up so he would stop picking on his eight year-old step sister, Emma, who was a constant target of Sean's bullying because her mother's were gay. Emma confesses to hurting Sean with the scissors after he tried to kiss her and then cut off her ponytail.