Courtney Lane is a fourteen-year-old sociopath who, along with her best friend Emma Butler, followed a young Romani boy, Nico Grey, after school and took him to a construction site.
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There, they bullied him, harassed him, and shoved him around, but Courtney took a lit cigarette and burned Nico on his chest, arms, even his scrotum, terrifying him and hurting him so much he wet himself. When he told them he was going to tell his mother, Courtney took his scarf and strangled him to death. Emma, despite being horrified and yelling at Courtney to stop, was too confused and afraid to save Nico and still was compelled to cover for Courtney.
Courtney and Emma took his lucky rabbit's foot and went to a mentally handicapped man named Marc Rajic and gave him a handjob and the rabbit's foot, telling him not to tell anyone and they would give him more handjobs in the future.
The detectives figured out Courtney and Emma were the ones responsible and Emma confessed to what Courtney did. When Courtney noticed them taking Emma away in cuffs, she called her a "stupid little bitch" and admitted what she'd done. Her father tried to stop by calling a lawyer, but she tells him its a little for that, something Olivia Benson confirmed before she asked her why she did it, Courtney chillingly replied, "Why not?", showing no remorse for what she did or any sympathy for Nico or his family unlike Emma, who showed heavy remorse. (SVU: "Lost Traveler")