Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Crimes

Grooming 10 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes

Predators who slowly win the trust of a young person, and often the family, before the abuse begins.

Season 12 · Episode 15
Flight

Aired February 2, 2011 · Child rape

A 12-year-old French girl’s rape claim against a billionaire defense contractor uncovers a network of girls brought to his massage room, as he uses his connections to fight back.
Season 20 · Episode 21
Exchange

Aired April 25, 2019 · Rape; child sexual abuse

An exchange student’s rape by a cabdriver leads the squad to discover that her host father groomed her and her sister into believing their own father had abused them.
Season 21 · Episode 18
Garland's Baptism by Fire

Aired April 2, 2020 · Statutory rape

A church bookkeeper caught embezzling accuses Reverend Delman Chase, Deputy Chief Garland’s pastor and mentor, of paying off teenage girls he sexually abused.
Season 22 · Episode 4
Sightless in a Savage Land

Aired January 7, 2021 · Statutory rape and murder

A 13-year-old foster child is found hemorrhaging after a forced abortion, and when her foster father is charged, her wounded veteran father shoots him outside court.
Season 23 · Episode 6
The Five Hundredth Episode

Aired October 21, 2021 · Rape and murder

Former detective Nick Amaro uses new DNA techniques to reopen a 1996 prom-night murder, and the writer behind the case turns out to be Benson’s first love.
Season 23 · Episode 20
Did You Believe in Miracles?

Aired May 5, 2022 · Kidnapping and statutory rape

A teenage girl vanishes with a trusted church friend who has been living under a false name and grooming her family for years.
Season 24 · Episode 5
Breakwater

Aired October 27, 2022 · Rape and manslaughter

A young lifeguard accuses the chief of the Bronx lifeguards of rape, and when he drowns on duty the squad uncovers how the chief qualified his staff.
Season 24 · Episode 7
Dead Ball

Aired November 10, 2022 · Rape and statutory rape

A reporter accuses a soccer superstar of rape and then withdraws, and the squad’s search for other victims leads to his best friend’s teenage daughter.
Season 24 · Episode 20
Debatable

Aired May 4, 2023 · Rape

A teenage debater who torched her team’s bus says she was raped, and the trail leads from her teammates to the married coaches who took her under their wing.
Season 26 · Episode 18
The Accuser

Aired April 10, 2025 · Assault and sexual abuse

A welding shop owner is found sexually assaulted with a date carved into his back, and the investigation uncovers his abuse of a teenage apprentice and a girl whose case against him failed two decades earlier.

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