After sixteen-year-old Lauren Westley loses her unborn child due to a severe abdominal beating, her father's insistence that Lauren was raped leads detectives to the baby's father, but it isn't long before the detectives realise that Lauren was an active party in her own beating, and the two teens had found it necessary to take the steps they did because the abortion clinic kept putting off Lauren's request for an appointment. Novak faces a tough opponent in her own office when she and Branch disagree over the appropriate action to be taken against Wayne Mortens, the young girl's boyfriend.
- Directed by
- Peter Leto
- Written by
- Patrick Harbinson
Guest stars
Keri Lynn Pratt
Lauren Westley
Adriane Lenox
Judy Carlton
Fred Thompson
Arthur Branch
Robert Foxworth
Dr. Lett
Annie Potts
Sophie Devere
John Patrick Amedori
Wayne Mortens
Skipp Sudduth
Phillip Westley
Charles Techman
Elderly Man
- J
J. Paul Nicholas
Linden Delroy
Francis Jue
Dr. Fong
Joanna Merlin
Lena Petrovsky
Judith Light
Elizabeth Donnelly
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S7 E1Demons
Sep 20, 20058.342 min
Twenty years after being convicted of the rape of a teenage girl, Ray Schenkel is released, much to the dismay of retired detective William Dorsey. When a teenage girl is raped on the route Schenkel would have taken home, Stabler goes under
S7 E2Design (I)
Sep 27, 20057.743 min
Benson saves April Troost from committing suicide, but feels responsible when Troost dies during the trial of the man she accuses of raping her and getting her pregnant. It isn't long before detectives learn that Barclay Pallister wasn't th
S7 E3911
Oct 4, 20058.643 min
Benson is on her way out for the evening when a call comes in from a little girl who says she's all alone. While trying to draw the girl out, Benson is drawn deeper into the little girl's life, and although the other officers begin to suspe
S7 E4Ripped
Oct 11, 20056.942 min
When the teenage son of Stabler's old partner comes under suspicion for attacking a classmate, Stabler's inability to treat this like any other case gets him suspended.
S7 E5Strain
Oct 18, 20058.143 min
The discovery of the bodies of two young gay men who were both meth addicts as well as victims of a new strain of AIDS that can kill its victims in less than a year leads to an investigation. Tutuola learns that his son, Ken, is gay, and ha
S7 E6Raw
Nov 1, 20058.243 min
After a six-year-old boy dies in a school shooting, detectives trace the gun used back to a white supremacist's gun shop. Munch and Tutuola both face hatred and prejudice from the major suspects in the case, but their investigation soon tak