There is a passing mention in the beginning about the protagonist fighting back against a kid who was flipping girls' skirts in a kindergarten class. SPOILERS: We find out over the course of the book that the main antagonists have a tradition of hunting "fallen women" for sport. Many of these women are vulnerable, poor, racialized, queer, etc. An antagonist leaves the protagonist in a situation where he assumes she will die, and he brags about going off to rape two other women.