St. Victor's Academy is a Catholic school in Manhattan, where there was tumult among the students.
History[]
Sean Hamill bullied Charlie Monaghan over his obesity, but he seemed to have stopped when Charlie beat Sean to make him shut up. Charlie's half-sister Emma Boyd was harassed with worse from Sean because their mutual mother, Kate, was in a relationship with another woman. Sean called her a "dyke" regularly and sent her harassing emails threatening her with as much as physical and sexual violence. Sean tried to forcibly kiss Emma in the art room, before he cut off her ponytail when she pushed him away. Emma snapped and impaled Sean's spine with the scissors, cutting his nerves to his waist down and paralyzing him. Charlie saw what she did, so he stole the car of the councilor, Father Justin Miller, dropped Sean off at the hospital, and threw out the scissors and other evidence to protect Emma.
Investigating Sean's assault lead to the revelation that Principal Parker struggled to stave off the conservative parents of students objecting to Emma's enrollment and attendance, as the more orthodox Catholic instruction was what many of them supported. Emma had attended St. Victor's for three years with no incident until her mother was afflicted with lupus, necessitating Kate's partner, Zoe Dunlop, coming to school events. They ultimately won a lawsuit to keep Emma enrolled at St. Victor's, but the bullying she suffered was so bad, she needed therapy twice a week. Father Miller initially kept quiet about the harassment, especially Sean's, so St. Victor's wouldn't receive any more bad press.
Emma was eventually found out, and Sean's father Edgar demanded arrest and prosecution in family court. Father Miller didn't want to see Emma punished over being accused of "aggression", so he recovered Sean's emails saved in the school's private system. The prosecutor was shown them in private in an encouragement to drop the trial, so Emma was pleaded down and sentenced to court mandated counseling.
In the aftermath, Zoe had Emma transferred out of St. Victor's. (SVU: "Alien")
Known Faculty[]
- Principal Parker
- Father Justin Miller (counselor)
Known Students[]
- Emma Boyd (formerly)
- Charlie Monaghan
- Sean Hamill
Known Parents[]
- Zoe Dunlop (Emma's guardian)
- Kate Boyd (Emma and Charlie's mother)
- Ray Monaghan (Charlie's father and Emma's stepfather)
- Edgar Hamill (Sean's father)
- Lenore Hamill (Sean's mother)