Child Abuse 13 Criminal Minds episodes
Cases rooted in the abuse of children, whether as the crime being solved or as the unsub’s own past.
- Season 1 · Episode 12
What Fresh Hell?
A girl is lured from a Wilmington park by a man searching for a lost dog, and the BAU, called in late, races the clock while the police first suspect her father.
- Season 2 · Episode 2
P911
When a boy the FBI lost track of a year ago appears in a live online auction, the BAU joins the Crimes Against Children Unit to find him before the sale closes.
- Season 2 · Episode 12
Profiler, Profiled
When Morgan is arrested in his hometown for a boy’s murder, the BAU has to clear one of its own, and the trail leads to the man who mentored him.
- Season 3 · Episode 2
In Name and Blood
With Gideon missing and Hotch and Prentiss on their way out, the BAU and Section Chief Strauss hunt a Milwaukee killer who cuts out women’s hearts and uses his young son to lure them.
- Season 3 · Episode 3
Scared to Death
When a mass grave in Portland reveals victims killed in wildly different ways, the BAU tracks a psychiatrist who poses as a phobia specialist and uses each patient’s worst fear against them.
- Season 3 · Episode 4
Children of the Dark
When Denver-area families are wiped out in their homes, the parents beaten and the children given lethal injections, the BAU hunts two foster brothers acting out their own abuse.
- Season 3 · Episode 5
Seven Seconds
When a 6-year-old disappears inside a Virginia mall a week after another girl was abducted and killed, the BAU searches the locked-down building and finds the danger is closer to home.
- Season 3 · Episode 17
In Heat
When a killer in Miami begins taking the lives and identities of gay men traveling alone, the BAU races to find him, while JJ’s hidden romance with Will comes out.
- Season 4 · Episode 7
Memoriam
Reid stays in Las Vegas to learn whether his father murdered a neighborhood boy two decades ago, as JJ’s baby arrives early back home.
- Season 4 · Episode 20
Conflicted
When male spring breakers are raped and murdered at a Texas beach hotel, the BAU hunts a man-and-woman team, then finds both live inside one troubled worker.
- Season 5 · Episode 3
Reckoner
A dying judge hires a hitman to execute people he believes escaped justice for crimes against children, and the case pulls Rossi back into his Long Island past.
- Season 5 · Episode 12
The Uncanny Valley
Women in Atlantic City are drugged into months of conscious paralysis and dressed like dolls, and the BAU traces the killer to a childhood scarred by abuse.
- Season 5 · Episode 13
Risky Business
A run of teen hangings in rural Wyoming looks like suicide until the BAU finds an online choking contest and the adult secretly running it.