Sexual Assault 37 Law & Order episodes
Rape and sexual-assault cases, from the investigation through the questions they raise at trial.
- Season 1 · Episode 14
The Violence of Summer
Prosecutors drop a rape case they fear they will lose, and the detectives go back to the scene to rebuild it.
- Season 2 · Episode 8
Out of Control
A sophomore’s rape accusation against two fraternity brothers runs into a wall of silence and questions about her own past.
- Season 2 · Episode 17
Sisters of Mercy
A 16-year-old runaway arrested after a shooting accuses a nun at her rehab shelter of molesting her.
- Season 3 · Episode 6
Helpless
The squad’s own psychiatrist accuses a prominent gynecologist of sexual assault, and her decision to gather evidence herself puts the case at risk.
- Season 3 · Episode 9
Point of View
A woman claims she killed a man in self-defense against rape, but the evidence suggests a contract killing for a mob boss.
- Season 3 · Episode 11
Extended Family
A 7-year-old’s disappearance turns out to be her mother’s doing, and it leaves Stone with an abuse case built on shaky evidence.
- Season 4 · Episode 3
Discord
A college junior says a heavy-metal star raped her in his hotel suite, but her credibility unravels on the stand and strains Stone’s trust in his new partner.
- Season 5 · Episode 4
Family Values
A wealthy publisher disappears in an apparent suicide, and the case exposes her husband’s affair with her teenage daughter.
- Season 5 · Episode 8
Virtue
A young campaign worker’s death after a fundraiser leads to a city councilman and a novel extortion charge over sex demanded for a law partnership.
- Season 5 · Episode 14
Performance
A videotape that seems to show a girl’s rape and murder leads detectives to a high school clique that keeps score of its sexual conquests.
- Season 5 · Episode 20
Bad Faith
A sex crimes detective who grew up with Logan is found shot in Riverside Park, and the trail leads to the former priest who abused boys in their old parish.
- Season 6 · Episode 5
Hot Pursuit
Police end a deadly robbery spree and free the gunman’s female partner, a Connecticut kidnapping victim, but McCoy believes she became a willing accomplice.
- Season 6 · Episode 10
Remand
An arsonist looking for a deal claims a notorious 30-year-old rape and stabbing was the work of a mob collector, setting off a retrial of the man Schiff convicted in 1965.
- Season 7 · Episode 3
Good Girl
A white 18-year-old says she stabbed a young Black man after he drugged and raped her, and his parents pressure the DA’s office to put her on trial.
- Season 7 · Episode 14
Working Mom
A retired cop turned corporate security chief is shot with his own gun on a Manhattan prostitution stroll, and the trail leads to a suburban mother who works as a call girl.
- Season 7 · Episode 18
Mad Dog
When a teenager is raped and smothered weeks after the serial rapist Lewis Darnell wins parole, McCoy becomes convinced Darnell did it and uses every legal tool to get him off the street.
- Season 8 · Episode 6
Baby, It's You
A 14-year-old fashion model dies of an infection caused by an untreated rape, and her wealthy parents’ combative lawyer fights the police while the case reaches back to Baltimore.
- Season 8 · Episode 14
Grief
An orderly left for dead in Riverside Park was beaten by brothers who say he raped their sister, and the case leads to a pregnant coma patient and a mother who kept a terrible secret.
- Season 8 · Episode 22
Damaged
A schoolyard shootout that wounds a teacher exposes three popular boys who had sex with a mentally disabled classmate, while Briscoe’s daughter Cathy testifies against the dealer she supplied.
- Season 8 · Episode 24
Monster
Pressed by Schiff before a primary election, detectives extract a confession from a known pedophile in the rape of a 10-year-old girl, only to find the real attacker works in her building.
- Season 9 · Episode 8
Punk
A corrections officer is executed in a Manhattan playground, and the case leads to a women’s prison, where an inmate Carmichael once sent away says the guard had been raping her.
- Season 10 · Episode 4
Merger
A teenage heiress is found dead behind her neighbors’ townhouse as her sister’s wedding approaches, and the investigation exposes secrets in two wealthy families.
- Season 10 · Episode 7
Patsy
A woman left in a coma after an apparent rape had long accused one man of killing her sister, and the DNA case against him begins to look like a setup.
- Season 10 · Episode 15
Fools for Love
The bodies of two teenage girls lead to a serial rapist and his girlfriend, the older sister of one victim, and a plea deal with her comes back to haunt McCoy.
- Season 11 · Episode 4
Standoff
When the leader of the Latin Lobos is knifed during a staged brawl at Rikers Island, McCoy charges the corrections officer who wanted him dead, and a jury has to weigh a hated victim against a sympathetic defendant.
- Season 11 · Episode 7
Amends
Pushed to raise her squad’s clearance rate, Van Buren has Briscoe and Green reopen the 1981 killing of a 16-year-old girl, and the case leads to an ambassador’s son and a cover-up by Briscoe’s old boss.
- Season 11 · Episode 11
Sunday in the Park with Jorge
A woman is found dead in Central Park on the afternoon of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, and political pressure follows a case that switches suspects in the middle of a trial.
- Season 12 · Episode 15
Access Nation
A young psychologist is stabbed to death by a paroled rapist she was treating, and the prosecutors pursue the online data company that sold him her private history.
- Season 12 · Episode 17
Girl Most Likely
The killing of a principled private-school student points first to the athletes she reported, then to a secret that her best friend was desperate to keep.
- Season 13 · Episode 24
Smoke
A popular comedian’s adopted baby falls to his death from a burning hotel suite, and the investigation uncovers a child sex abuse case the star paid to keep quiet.
- Season 15 · Episode 19
Sects
A survivor of a sect that abused its children kills his former nanny and then shoots himself, and McCoy turns the case against the mother who founded the group.
- Season 16 · Episode 16
Cost of Capital
A junior investment banker’s body is dumped far from where he died, the trail leads to the boss he was secretly sleeping with, and the murder case ends up depending on what her teenage daughter overheard on a late-night call.
- Season 17 · Episode 2
Avatar
Photos of a murdered mother posted on a teen social networking site lead to a mentally ill man who abducts her daughter, then insists the girl recruited him online to kill her mother.
- Season 17 · Episode 8
Release
The bludgeoning of a wealthy heir on a racy party-video bus leads to a college student who says she was fending off a second assault, and McCoy charges the man who first raped her with felony murder.
- Season 18 · Episode 10
Tango
A high school girl is raped and killed after straying from a Manhattan tow pound, and the case turns on whether a pimp or his drug-addicted girlfriend dealt the fatal blow.
- Season 19 · Episode 5
Knock Off
An upstate man is shot in Chinatown, and the case against the woman who accused him of rape unravels into a sheriff protecting his informant, with the governor’s office shielding a key witness.
- Season 20 · Episode 14
Boy on Fire
The burning death of a charter-school student leads to boys from a struggling public high school whose principal, guarding her own record of grade tampering, vouches for their alibi.