The Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Liaoyang Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Shen Mo wearily pressed a hand to her forehead. This seemingly simple case had taken one unexpected turn after another, and the investigation was going anything but smoothly.
Chang Yuan's and Duan Lang's families had hired lawyers to arrange their release on bail pending trial. There was nothing to object to there. Much as she disliked the two little bastards, she could not deprive them of their legal rights.
The problem was that, after going home, the two little bastards had posted online, exposing the details of their transaction with Song Qiaoqiao and unleashing another wave of online harassment against her.
Just last night, Song Qiaoqiao had left a suicide note and swallowed a large quantity of sleeping pills. Fortunately, her family had found her in time and rushed her to the hospital, where she had been saved.
Song Qiaoqiao came from a poor family. Faced with her stylishly dressed classmates at school, she could not suppress her envy and feelings of inferiority. In the end, she had succumbed to the lure of money and made the wrong choice.
You could call her vain and say she had willingly degraded herself, but that did not mean she had no human dignity. Nor did it mean Chang Yuan and Duan Lang could seek thrills by deceiving and forcing her into sex against her will, then recording it to keep as a trophy.
When Zhou Yi had said, "A crime committed without criminal intent is still a crime," he meant that, although Chang Yuan and Duan Lang both regarded it as nothing more than an exchange of money for sex, their actions had in fact broken the law.
Song Qiaoqiao, meanwhile, embodied the second half of his statement: "An imperfect victim