"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Lessons Learned (TV Episode 2012) - Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson

[to a support group for sexual abuse victims]

Detective Olivia Benson : Gentlemen, if I may? I've been doing this for a long time, and I understand the shame and the stigma. But keeping the abuse secret... doesn't make it go away.
Rafael Barba : [about Manor Hill] Nice campus. As a kid growing up in the South Bronx going to Catholic school, I would've given anything to go here.

Detective Olivia Benson : Smart guy like you couldn't get a scholarship?

Rafael Barba : Only kids they took from my neighborhood were the athletes. With all due respect, this was a waste of time. I'm a prosecutor, not a healer.

Detective Olivia Benson : All due respect, as a prosecutor, don't you want to make a case? I know something criminal went on here. So do you.
Brett Forrester : My grandfather, my father, myself, my son all graduated from Manor Hill. Four generations. We created leaders in art, science, business, politics.

Detective Olivia Benson : It also created victims who suffer with failed relationships, unemployment, substance abuse. I could go on.

Brett Forrester : They drink too much and get divorced? A lot of people have disappointing lives. These failures are just trying to excuse their own behavior.

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson