Emma Butler is a fourteen-year-old girl who, along with her best friend Courtney Lane, was responsible for the death of a young Romani classmate named Nico Grey.
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At school, Emma sees an older student spit on Nico's hand. Afterwards, Emma and Courtney follow Nico and take him to a construction site, where they attacked him. Then, Courtney takes a lit cigarette and uses it to burn Nico's chest, arms, and scrotum. Courtney then kills him against Emma's wishes. They take his lucky rabbit's foot, go to a mentally handicapped man named Marc Rajic, and give him a handjob and the rabbit's foot, telling him not to tell anyone and they would give him more handjobs in the future. When the SVU detectives go to their school to question the students about Nico, Fin questions them and they tell him that they live on the same block as Nico did.
Later, when Amaro and Rollins question Emma and Courtney about Rajic, Emma tells Amaro that she worried about what would happen to Rajic after his mother died. She also tells Amaro that Rajic is creepy, while Courtney informs Rollins that she saw Rajic with Gray's rabbit foot. When Emma and Courtney go to Nico's parents house with flowers, they tell Amaro and Benson that the school is going to plant a tree for Nico. Emma proceeds to tell them that even though Rajic is locked in his room, he is able to get out at any time through the backdoor. Later, the detectives realize the two of them followed Nico. Emma is brought into the precinct with her mother Sandra, while Courtney is brought in with her father. When Amaro interrogates her, Emma tries to maintain that Rajic killed Nico but Amaro tells her that he knows she is lying. When Amaro tells her that he knows what she and Courtney did with Rajic, she asks him not to tell Sandra. When Amaro shows her a picture of Nico's dead body, she starts to cry and admits that Courtney tortured and killed him. She is then arrested but unlike Courtney, who showed no remorse for her actions or any sympathy for Nico and his family, Emma showed remorse and was disturbed by Courtney's horrific actions. (SVU: "Lost Traveler")