Kelly D'Leah is a college rape victim who suffered a roofie, two rapes in one night, and the hurdles of investigation and her testimony.
History[]
D'Leah met player Joe Templeton, Jr. in college and made a few mild flirts to to keep Jr. at a safe distance, but Jr. never got over the rejection of her refusing to pursue a relationship knowing he liked to sleep around. Recruiting two other girls in the college sorority, biochem major Tess Michner, Jr.'s ex having hated D'Leah, and Jodie Tomlinson, Michner manufactured GHB and Tomlinson spiked D'Leah's drink with it using an eye drop bottle and laughing it was a "love potion" and "getting even". Michner had previously spread lies about D'Leah going and trading herself for oral sex to further humiliate her. When D'Leah was sedated enough, Joey made the two women get out of the room and brutally raped D'Leah in her stupor. She lost her virginity to the rape, as well as ended up infected with Jr.'s strain of gonorrhea.
When she made it back to her dorm, Wally Parker was invited up while she was recovering, and since Parkers had a crush on her, he accepted. Devastated and wanting to heal her trauma, D'Leah started to kiss Wally and, without considering her consent or knowing she was already drugged, Wally and D'Leah had intercourse, Wally raping her under legal statue given her intoxication. She then stumbled outside and passed out between some bushes, where two jogging students found her and called the medics so she could be transported to the ER.
She was in shock and terrified of a rape exam, but her roommate Dana Kimble gave her full support and brought her a new change of clothes. The detectives helped her out of her shock to test her STDs, collect semen, and screen her blood for drugs. A homeless man named Harry was eliminated despite stealing her wallet, but Michner and Tomlinson tried to stonewall the investigation by accusing her of "lap dancing" in front of Jr. D'Leah starts worrying she "made mistakes" that night when the humiliation starts getting to her, even though she didn't drink too much alcohol or act promiscuous that night.
She's nearly convinced by the dean to take it up with the college disciplinary committee, but D'Leah agrees in the end to a criminal investigation, horrified to find out the rapist could be one of the guys she was around. When Jr.'s not only revealed to be D'Leah's rapist but a rapist of numerous other women at the college, the college courts barely making a statement, Jr.'s arrested and interrogated with counsel present.
Jr.'s gonorrhea matches, but not his DNA to the semen on D'Leah's person. Everyone soon finds out Michner and Tomlinson made and poured the GHB before Jr. raped D'Leah. But Parker's revealed to be the other rapist when the semen matches him. All four are taken to trial, and D'Leah gives an emotional testimony of her shock and scarring trauma from being raped and coming to realize the rape. She gets terrified when the defense provides doubt about motive and situation.
In the end, the two women are found guilty of possession and use of the GHB, but the two rapists are acquitted in court over "not suspecting" D'Leah's drugged state. She realizes she's maybe pregnant because she didn't take the morning after pill. Benson, who supported and commended her the whole way through, say she's not the best person to ask and to tell her family, not revealing Benson herself is a child of rape. (SVU: "Consent")