Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Crimes

Online Predators 10 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes

Adults who use the internet to find, groom and exploit children, and the detectives who track them.

Season 4 · Episode 15
Pandora

Aired February 7, 2003 · Rape and murder / child pornography

The murder of a woman who posed online as a child to catch predators sends Stabler after a kidnapped teenager in Prague and a child-pornography network in New York.
Season 7 · Episode 21
Web

Aired May 9, 2006 · Child sexual abuse / child pornography

A young boy’s abuse leads detectives to his teenage brother’s child pornography website and the paying predators who help him disappear.
Season 9 · Episode 2
Avatar

Aired October 2, 2007 · Kidnapping and rape

A young woman vanishes from her bed, and her avatar in an online virtual world leads the squad to an ex-convict reliving an old abduction.
Season 11 · Episode 7
Users

Aired November 4, 2009 · Rape and murder

The murder of a 16-year-old in a cheap hotel exposes the therapist who controls her treatment program, and Huang breaks the law to get the case’s key witness off heroin.
Season 14 · Episode 6
Friending Emily

Aired October 31, 2012 · Child abduction and exploitation

When a 14-year-old tourist vanishes from a college party and turns up on a live darknet stream, the squad tracks her captor through the girls he took before her.
Season 15 · Episode 6
October Surprise

Aired October 23, 2013 · Attempted rape; sexting and hush money

When a mayoral front-runner asks Barba, his oldest friend, to help a mutual friend accused of attempted rape, SVU uncovers the candidate’s sexting and hush money.
Season 17 · Episode 10
Catfishing Teacher

Aired January 6, 2016 · Kidnapping and child sexual abuse

A missing 15-year-old seems to have run off with a teacher who has been sleeping with students, but SVU finds he was lured away by his wrestling coach.
Season 23 · Episode 11
Burning with Rage Forever

Aired January 13, 2022 · Kidnapping, child sexual abuse and attempted murder

After a predator lures an eight-year-old from home through an online game, the boy’s uncle stabs the man and is hailed as a hero until SVU learns what he has hidden.
Season 26 · Episode 10
Master Key

Aired January 23, 2025 · Murder and child sex trafficking

The search for a missing 16-year-old from a group home leads to a dead locksmith, a string of lies and the caseworker who was supposed to protect him.
Season 26 · Episode 12
Calculated

Aired February 13, 2025 · Sexual exploitation of minors

What looks like a minor case of a teenager with a classmate’s nude photo grows into a sting on dozens of predators, and Silva fears one of them is innocent.

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