Malik Williams became the sole legal guardian of his adolescent sister Tiana by the time she turned 14-years-old. Two years later, Malik gets into an argument in a bodega, and is falsely accused of trying to rob its owner. Malik claims that he was trying to call for help for the gang-rape of his sister. Tiana is found nearly unconscious on a playground and is hospitalized. The police soon learn that Malik is a pimp and was paid to allow three adolescent boys to have sex with his sister. Olivia tries to convince Tiana to testify against her brother, but Tiana is blind to Malik's increasingly abusive behavior due to her love for him. Tiana changes her mind when she finds out that her "loving" brother was behind a poisoning scheme that was intended to permanently silence Tiana.
—Dimos I