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Shen Lie swallowed a mouthful of the sandwich: "Then how can you let him jump outside?"

Lester smiled bitterly: "Things are not as simple as you think."

Shen Lie said: "I would like to hear the details."

Lester said: "Vincent Osterley, we have been monitoring him since five years ago. We suspected that he was involved in business crimes and tax evasion, but we have never had evidence."

Shen Lie frowned: "It's been five years, and there is no evidence at all? Can he make such a huge business empire so seamless?"

"If you say there is nothing at all, it is lying to you," Lester explained, "Now his company still has our people undercover, and has reached a high-level position, but we have conclusive evidence now It is not enough for him to get the punishment he deserves, that is, a few misdemeanors, and he will be released after a few years of imprisonment, so we must continue to undercover and not be exposed. Preliminary estimates are another four or five years, and it will be almost enough If the net is closed, at least this number can be judged by then."

Lester made a five.

Shen Lie knew that this meant 50 years in prison.

Shen Lie sighed: "Then what should we do in the past four or five years? Just let him go outside? I'm afraid that other children will be ruined by him. How can he let the FBI and the New York Police Department—maybe even the International The criminal police—wonderful for him."

Lester thought so, and then he asked in confusion: "I remember you are in the homicide squad, not in the economics department, how could you have something to do with him?"

Shen Lie said: "He imprisoned and sexually abused at least three underage boys, two were killed by him, and the longest one suffered from Stockholm syndrome. Like you, we have no evidence to prosecute."

"God," Lester said with a look of shock, "I never thought he would be so disgusting! I thought he was just a criminal capitalist, just like thousands of people in the United States!"

Shen Lie just shook his head.

The other road was also cut off. Could it be that they really had nothing to do with Vincent Osterley?Can you just watch him swaggeringly escape from the loopholes in the law?Can we only wait four or five years later?

But in these four or five years, how many Sean and Stephen will there be?

Shen Lie felt tired again.

Is this the law and justice he should stick to?

After returning home at night, Shen Lie simply relayed Lester's words, and Ning Yuan was also extremely shocked.

The two of them didn't bother to cook for this dinner, and the takeaway they ordered was tasteless.

Lying on the bed at night, I just chatted with each other, and didn't even do anything disharmonious.

Shen Lie was stroking Ning Yuan's hair while looking at past legal cases (Ning Yuan always felt that he would be bald before the age of 40 after being touched by him like this.), but the latter seemed to think of something, and sat down for a while. When he got up, Shen Lie lost his hand and looked at him suspiciously.

Ning Yuan turned his face to him: "I thought of one thing."

"What?" Shen Lie also sat up.

"Klein," Ning Yuan said, his eyes sparkling, "If Klein is willing to sue him for rape, we can charge him with rape for a few years! In this way, when the FBI sues, he will already be in jail !"

Shen Lie's eyes lit up as well, but then he shook his head: "The idea is very good, very good, but there is one premise - Klein is willing to sue."

Ning Yuan was stunned for a moment, then murmured: "Yes, that's right, you are right...how could he be willing to sue? A man was sexually assaulted by another man, and the whole country would know about it. will choose to do it.”

"It's not just for this reason." Shen Lie pulled him back into his arms and lay down, sighed, "I used to work in the Special Victims Department for a few months, and then I was transferred to the Homicide Squad. It's much harder to deal with a living victim than a dead one. As a rape victim, if you choose to sue and go to court, without a plea bargain, you go through a grand jury, then a trial, over and over again During the cross-examination, I recalled the painful ordeal countless times... It is very difficult, especially for a man like Klein, it is too difficult."

"I was too impulsive." Ning Yuan calmed down and felt that this was too cruel to Klein. "His treatment has just ended, and his life has just improved a bit. He shouldn't be allowed to go back to hell. What's more..." He Shaking his head, "Think about Linda, I'm afraid Klein won't survive the trial."

Shen Lie wrapped him in his arms, kissed the top of his hair lightly, and said with deep eyes, "Even if I can't imprison him for statutory rape and torture and homicide, I won't let him have a good time."

But sometimes things are really a coincidence.

After Ning Yuan woke up the next day, he didn't go to the police station, but drove to the psychological clinic to have a look.Everything was proceeding step by step, and he was about to go to work at the police station. As soon as he left the office and went down to the first floor, he saw a slender but thin man in a suit, carrying a black briefcase, and heard someone coming down. Lou turned around. He couldn't say how handsome he was, but when he smiled, people couldn't look away from those light purple eyes inexplicably.

Ning Yuan was surprised: "Klein?"

Klein raised his eyebrows: "Have you had breakfast?"

Ning Yuan rubbed his belly: "...Actually, if I try harder, I can still stuff some more."

Klein was amused by him.

The two came to a restaurant not far from the clinic. In order to maintain the recently effective abdominal muscles, Ning Yuan reservedly only ordered a salad and hot milk.

When the food was served, they chatted while eating.

Ning Yuan asked: "How has your sleep been recently?"

Klein said indifferently: "It's okay, let's do that. Anyway, I have resigned now, and I don't need much sleep when I usually deal with legal aid and irrelevant civil cases."

Ning Yuan frowned: "Is there still a flashback?"

"It's very few," Klein smiled, "Now I'm starting to flash back the pictures of other things."

Ning Yuan was puzzled: "...other things?"

Klein didn't continue this topic, but talked about what Ning Yuan was still talking to Shen Lie last night: "I have been paying attention to the development of Vincent Osterley's case. I heard that the charges have been withdrawn?"

"Yes," Ning Yuan dejectedly said, "Because of the illegal search... But in fact, no one would have thought that he could turn the sewer into private property!"

"Yeah," Vincent looked down at the white garland of coffee in the coffee cup, "No one can imagine how capable Vincent is."

"I went to see Stephen last month."

Ning Yuan was very surprised when he heard the words: "Why?"

"I don't know. It might be guilt, or it might be..." Klein smiled wryly. "After that incident, I can empathize."

Ning Yuan didn't know what to say for a while.

Klein's eyes dimmed, and he shook his head: "It's nothing, it's all over."

Ning Yuan couldn't keep asking.

Klein took a few deep breaths, drank two or three sips of the coffee at hand, and asked softly and firmly, "I don't want him to get away with it like this. Is there anything I can do?"