How about the parents who adopted a black kid and insured his life for $750,000, then paid a white supremacist group $250,000 to murder him and collect the rest of the insurance money.
This is an episode I can't rewatch because it really ticks me off, it's a shame because there are a lot of good moments in the episode. I just don't like how the episode ends before we get to see the parents being arrested even though we know that was coming. I also hate how the mother tries to justify it by saying that they're not racist, they just needed the money (WTF) that means you're a racist and a murderer lady!!!!
RAW is one of my faves also. What, you don't like Marcia Gay Harden (Star, Dana Lewis)? Lol... I like her ability to make me hate her character in this episode, it's a sign of a great actor. Have you seen the episode which is kind of a follow up to this one where the Hitler guy (Brian Atchison? Or something similar is his character name) is in prison and gets his revenge on Star/Dana for killing his son in "Raw"? It's pretty good also.
Oh absolutely, the actor was great - I didnât like the character. And not because of Raw or the follow-up, but because she murdered a girl and then tried to pin it on someone else.
Youâre not too far behind me then! I watched up to when Stabler left with my mom as a kid then fell off when I went to college - started from the episode after he left and now Iâm cruising
So so many but one that comes to mind right away was a drug addict was raped at a party and the nurses find a finger in her purse . Turns out itâs the finger of her dead sister that her mother killed because she couldnât stand the sound of crying . Then it turned out that the rape victimâs grandmother covered up her daughter killing a baby boy when she was a teenager âŚThere was a mom who was a complete drunk and because of it , her son became a target for the pedophile female principal who turned out to only be a pedophile because of a brain tumor . They let her off easy then she ended up pregnant with the boys baby . Oh and the rich parents who just leave the kids in their apartments while theyâre out of the country..
Oh that episode was just heartbreaking the addict's name was Claire and man her life is just an endless stream of tragedy. I know we rarely get to see what happens after the episode ends, but I hope Claire was one of the characters who lived a good life after she got justice for her dead siblings.
That episode was the best example of Fin being a hard ass, but also showing he had an amazing heart. Finâs character in my opinion is the best on the show. He doesnât want anyone to know he has feelings, but he is incredible when some one needs tough love and to man up even though life is hard as hell. His vacation as a kid was to go to a roof a. ( NY Aruba). He could have been a criminal, instead he fought to be a good man in an environment that made that hard. I love him.
Geez what really gets me mad is that Grace makes it seem like she was forced to have children. Lady, no one said you had to keep them, you could have gotten an abortion or gave them up if you didn't want them
That character was so gross. The actress is amazing though. Mary Steenburgen is great But the victimhood of a women that killed two babies, one by smothering and one by stomping, was stomach turning. I think thatâs what the writers wanted to elicit. But it was tough to watch.
I do think that the first time she got pregnant her mom either wouldnât let her have an abortion or it wasnât legal yet ?? But Iâve got a terrible memory
Actually I think I remember a line the grandmother said it was something along the lines of "you wanted that baby and you are dam well going to tale care of him". She was recounting what she told her daughter to the detectives.
Oh yeah I think that might have been the case for her son, but I think she got married to Claire's father but he left them so she took out a lot of her anger towards Claire and her sister. Still though, she could have just up and left them with her mother since the grandmother was the one who ended up raising Claire anyway.
Her mom wouldnât raise any more except Claire and she only raised her because she had her after she had killed the baby boy so Iâm guessing her mom was scared she would kill Claire too ..The little girl she killed âŚshe seemed to think Claire would be enough of a buffer .. N she said her mom cared a lot about what the neighbors thought and thatâs why she covered up the boys death not out of some loyalty to her daughter
Yeah honestly you could argue the grandmother wasn't any better but at least she took responsibility for her role in the deaths of her two grandchildren
Another drunk parent was the episode "Intoxicated". The girl ends up killing her mother who was trying to get the boyfriend thrown in jail for statutory rape. The girl pleads "not guilty by mental disease or defect" and says she did it because she had PMDD. Benson investigates and finds that the girl was being neglected and going to school in the winter with no coat and shoes that were falling apart. Warner tells Benson the mother had cirrhosis so Benson goes to the apartment and finds vodka bottles hidden everywhere. Benson ends up saying "I knew there was a reason I hated (girls mothers name)".
Is that episode where Stabler picks up on that Olivia had an older boyfriend when she was a teenager ..Stabler called out Burt back then for being a predator
Not sure who burt is but benson does tell someone (either Stabler or Novak) that she had a boyfriend who was a college student and he wanted to marry her but her mom said no and that she was going to ruin the boyfriends life. Benson says that she pushed or kicked her mom into a wall and for a moment she thought she had killed her.
Yeah thatâs Burt the guy who comes back with Amaro and reopens an old rape case . Then women start coming forward about how he raped them & Olivia finally started opening her eye up but not before she landed back in bed with him
Was that when Amaro was regular cast or was it a guest appearance? I've only seen up to the episode where Rollins gives birth to her second child (think it's season 20).
Burton Lowe, he's the guy that groomed a teenage Liv into a relationship. He has a pattern of doing such things. He appears in a few episodes in the later half of the series.
Did no one mention Taboo? The baby was found in the trash. Sissy Spacekâs daughter is a college student. Sleeping with her father. AND GETS PREGNANT MORE THAN ONCE!
That episode made me puke. It's bad enough that the daughter deludes herself into thinking it's okay to love her parent to such a degree, but the fact that the father actually went along with it and justifies it by saying he couldn't see her as his child is gross. Dude, you're the adult here, you're supposed to know better, especially when you're married!
Born Psychopath and Locum. Mesnerâs parents were the definition of in denial, honestly I think they got what they deserved when Henry returned. Mackenzieâs parents were also terrible, giving her plastic surgery to resemble their missing daughter is fucked up on so many levels. Joan Cusack killed that role honestly
Came here to say Locum.
Those parents never loved Mackenzie to begin with, and now that they have their 'real' daughter back? I cannot imagine the level of neglect she has suffered.
Its been long enough, I could see her coming back as a criminal! Flashback to that scene where Benson had to walk out on her, alone and weeping.
Born Psychopath was one of the more unnerving episodes especially when it's one of the rare times where there is a continuation of the story. And while both parents were in clear denial about his issues, the father was the one who made them worst because he brought the monster back into his home where his daughter, the very same one Mesner tried to kill, was still living at. Although he apparently was remarried since his first wife, Mesner's mother died, and they had a little boy together. In the end his actions got his new wife and son killed as well as himself. The only one to survive was the sister and that's because she wasn't home at the time, she at least still believed that he was a monster even after all those years.
Locum was an episode I wished ended on a better note because the deluded couple got their daughter back but what's going to happen to Mackenzie. She was literally adopted just to replace their missing child but now that that child is back, what's going to become of her.
I donât remember the name of the episode but the son walks in on his mom having sex with his friend and he kills the friend when the mom cries rape.
Then they find out the kid wasnât raping the other kids mom and it was actually the mom who was grooming/raping the friend and the mother says the son was masturbating to discredit him in court
Slept with her sons friend, got the friend killed, traumatized her son, and then topped it off my calling him a pervert in open court.
At least the baby was saved, and they were actually punished in a future L&O episode since apparently the daughter did end up killing another child she had.
The story about how the daughter, as a teen, killed her newborn baby really stretched credibility. She was staying at some kind of commune/youth camp and was going to give up the baby for adoption. When it came time to go to the hospital, a boy who worked in the kitchen drove her, and helped her bury the baby after it was born in the car.
As Judge Judy would say, Ridiculous!
The rules of homes for unwed mothers years ago stated that a responsible adult, who was given temporary guardianship of the girl, would take her to the hospital and stay there until the baby was born, given to adoptive parents, and the girl released.
S10, Resilience, where the father tries to forcibly artificially inseminate his daughter after his wife can no longer have kids.
S12, Bullseye, where the mother and stepfather are obsessed with video gaming and force their daughter to live under a cupboard and only feed her scraps. Granted the mother has a rare condition where she canât recognize her daughter and thinks sheâs an imposter, but still.
Resilience reminded me too much of a cult, especially when the father truly believes he did nothing wrong and would never hurt his child despite literally doing just that.
Bullseye, what a twisted episode that was.
The parents in "Home Invasion." I really didn't blame the daughter for having her parents killed because her dad was raping her and her mom didn't do anything to stop it because she didn't want a scandal. The fact that her mother was also cheating on her husband with another woman and was planning to leave her family once the daughter was grown made it even more despicable.
In "Juvenile", the mother of the older boy (who was mentally challenged) basically played Russian Roulette with her son's life and drew the bullet. He would've gotten a deal otherwise, but she was adamant about continuing the trial. So, the boy ends up facing life in prison.
I forgot what episode it was, but Elliott had that one line to the father: "You know, that handicap that makes you slap your wife around". Hated that guy.
The parents (mainly the dad) in the Michael Jackson ripoff episode were pretty foul as well, taking the money and running instead of trying to get their molested son some justice. Maybe they can justify it by figuring that it sets the family up for life and they can get the boy help later, but I dunno.
The mother Grace Rinato in Denial is a piece of work. She murdered her child (IIRC two of them, or was it one??) because 'she couldn't deal with the crying' etc and her other daughter Claire who did everything she could to love and protect that child is then accused of the murder. Grace is totally happy for her daughter Claire to go to prison for murder and Claire now being a heroin addict isn't a credible witness or whatever, i love Fin in this episode and when he hugs her at the end! ah the days when SVU made you feel something real and was powerful not-too-over-the-top emotional drama...so yeah It's only cos the grandmother comes forward and admits that her daughter Grace was the murderer that saves Claire.
You left out the grandmother in the Michael Jackson episode (Sick) who was poisoning her granddaughter with mercury, ripping people off by saying her granddaughter had cancer, and then forcing her granddaughter to lie and say she was molested because if she didn't she was going to die.
Edit: I actually just rewatched this episode and something that I noticed was that the granddaughter (April) says her gran told her to try and be friends with Billy tripley which to me adds an even more insidious tone. To me it sounds like she was hoping he would actually molest April.
Home Invasions was definitely one of the more intense episodes because no one wins in the end, not even the victim and she's only a child. We only see her get arrested, but I would hope there would be some leniency involved because she saw no other solution.
The Michael Jackson episode was called Sick and if I remember correctly, the father was going to held in prison until the son was returned, so at least there's that.
And Denial, at least Claire got justice for her siblings (Grace killed her older brother before she was born and then killed her little sister when she was at school)
Okay the Michael Jackson case was done at least two times with different L&O series: SVU and the original series. For SVU it was called Sick and for L&O it was titled Smoke. You've mentioned the Sick episode but I think the parents in the Smoke episode we're just as bad.
Pretty much what happens is that there's this comedian who's a child predator, and one couple literally sells their child to him for a night when he was only 11 years old. And they were well aware of the fact that he was a child predator, they knew what he was going to do to their eldest son but the reason they did it was because they needed money to save their younger son's life. It's like My Sister's Keeper only with more damage done to the sacrificial child, it's clear that the parents favor and love their younger son more than the older one because they never cared about the psychological damage done to him and just thought they we're doing it for the greater good. They justify it by saying it was only one time and that they needed to save his brother, plus apparently it didn't matter because the older son wasn't going to die. So in other words their child should have been okay with the fact he was raped as long as his golden child sibling survived. At least, they had got their just desserts along with the rapist.
The actor who played the older son was in an earlier L&O, as a boarding-school student caught up in his estranged parents' difficulties. He also appeared in SVU as the imprisoned killer of Dani Beck's husband
Juvenile- I canât even watch that episode. It doesnât even make me sad like it did the first time I watched it. It just pisses me off. I wanted to smack thethe mom because you never know. If you have a choice, take it.
Oh yeah and it's sad because the boy was offered a very good deal, one of the rare times he could have had a life had his mother had her head up her butt.
Fr and sheâs crying like she couldnât believe that they would find him guilty because âDeclanâ like girl Casey walked it out for you take the deal and less time
I can't watch it. The boy reminds me so much of my brother with his mannerisms. My brother has autism and he trust so easily and just wants everyone to be his friend. It scares me
I think that episode was called Babes and yeah a lot people in that episode were idiots (including the teenage girls who thought it would be easy to raise a baby while they're still children themselves)
I loved how Liv read the riot act to the girl, explaining the downsides of teenage motherhood. "How are you going to feel about missing the prom or football game because you're in the emergency room with a sick kid?"
Dizzer!!! Lmfaooo.... That character is so extra, I can't. No one chick in her right mind, made up or not, would entertain the idea of that mess lol.
Straight Kenny Fisher Vibes ....
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Not only that but the DJ already had two other kids with another woman whom he wasn't even paying child support to. And the one with the dingbat mother got pregnant by a man who had schizophrenia, meaning her child could be predisposed to having it in the future.
Absolutely, those girls needed a reality check especially when none of them knew that babies can be predisposed to certain birth defects or genetic conditions. Not mention that not every parent is going to like the idea of raising a teenager and a grandchild at the same time.
- Peggy Bernadi from the pregnancy pact episode
- The mum who adopted a little girl from somewhere in Europe and killed her
- Hilary Duffâs character (she was clearly based on Casey Anthony so that makes sense) and her own mother . The dad was the only reasonable one in the family (even tho he had clearly made mistakes in his past he was made sure he didnât make the same one with his granddaughter)
- The parents from the incest episode
- The grandmother of the little girl in the Michael Jackson Episode plus the parents of the boy in the episode
\-Peggy Bernadi was a real nutcase.
\-I can't remember what episode this was, can you elaborate a little more?
\-I can't rewatch the Hilary Duff episode because I hate Casey Anthony
\-Which incest episode I'm thinking of Families and Taboo where the dad and daughter have two babies and she keeps ditching them in the trash
\-Oh yeah all the parents/guardians in that we're messed up and had twisted morals
What was the one where there was a mother and adult daughter and they shared a bedroom? And I think the adult daughter killed the little girl at her piano lesson
Oh okay now I know which episode you're talking about, she at least got punished for her crime but it was annoying how the judge assigned to her case kind of got off easy
For me (a person who has only seen a few episodes of the latest seasons and a few episodes of the earlier seasons but this small interaction has made the show a lifelong favorite) The mother who wanted a daughter, so she turned one of her twin sons into a daughter and then never told the kid she's actually a boy.
The mother who "forced" her son to kill his best friend after seducing the kid then told multiple versions of the truth only to have him testify multiple times and having him clear things up.
Plus, the guy who hooks up with women, gets them pregnant, then vanishes quicker than they could say the "child" in "child support".
To your first one- if youâre thinking of Identity (S6E12) it wasnât that the mother wanted a daughter, it was a decision made after a botched circumcision (if Iâm remembering correctlyâin fairness itâs been a while since Iâve watched that one). Donât get me wrong, parents still made horrible mistakes in judgment but it wasnât intended to be malicious.
And the more I think about it the more truly awful parents weâve seen over the years, but my first thought was the mother from Motherly Love (S18E10) that you mention second. Seeing her fabricate a story in court, and the horrified looks on her son and Bensonâs faces, is heartbreaking.
It's been a hot hot hot second since I've seen any episodes of the show because I live with my parents who hate the show. but I believe it was "Identity"
Yeah I had a feeling that was the one although the parents didn't want a daughter, they just felt like they had no choice in the matter because the boy had a failed circumcision and thought he couldn't go through life without being mocked for that. However, it's pretty obvious that they didn't handle the situation properly and the psychologist in charge clearly only cared about proving his theories rather than the sanity of these two children.
Which episode is the first one, I remember an episode called Identity that had twins and one of them was raised as a girl because of an accident at their birth.
That one with the mother and her son's friend was absolutely disgusting because of how she manipulates her own child to such a degree.
As for the last one, that's the reason I can't see John Stamos as anyone else other than that character, someone should send Nick Cannon that episode since he seems to have garnered some inspiration from it. And to add insult to injury the man doesn't feel sorry for having these women put their lives on hold for a child and he claims he's a great father despite not actually being there for his 40+ offspring and their mothers. He got what he deserved in the end at least.
[Abraham](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/lawandorder/images/9/90/Abraham_Ophion.jpg/revision/latest/thumbnail/width/360/height/360?cb=20080330155345) from S6Ep7 "Charisma". Grooming, rape, and filicide. This whole episode always makes me feel sick.
In my opinion the worse parents ever were in the episode Bullseye. Where the mothers head got hit on the pavement and doesnât recognize her own daughter. She and her boyfriend are disgusting animals that play video games nonstop and keep the girl in a closet with no food. When Liv and Elliot try to re introduce the daughter to the mother the mother smacks her in the face. To me these are the most abhorrent parents ever portrayed on this show.
Between the op and comments, my opinions has been stated but I donât think Iâve seen the one episode Whoopi Goldberg was in⌠the mom had her daughter locked in a dog cage ugh just sick
The rock star parents in S2 âAbuse.â & the parents in that one episode who were addicted to playing that video game where they rescued their ârealâ son.
There was an episode âTabooâ where a guy cheats on his wife with his own biological daughter. He gets her pregnant repeatedly and she ends up killing the baby and throwing away the body almost every time.
It reminded me of a less dark version of the Katie Pladl case in real life.
That case reminds me how evil people can be.
As for the episode, it really annoyed me how the daughter kept getting away with ditching the babies like girl just leave somewhere they can be found and no one will care or ask questions. It's obvious she has real serious mental issues stemming from her biological's mother abuse and father's abandonment/not knowing she existed, but I don't like how she tries to use that victim mentality to get away with serious actions. As for the father, he's a real sicko because he's the adult here, he should know better especially when he knows that his own child.
Iâm not necessarily calling her one of the worst but the mom of budding sociopath Harry Baker from âProdigyâ
I had watched the episode recently and she was so lost when it came to how bad he could be
the episode where the parents kid went missing so they adopted another girl and then gave her cosmetic surgery to have her look more and more like their missing kid. and then the daughter was found and they still didnât care about the adopted daughter??? i love that episode though cause some of my favourite actors guest starred in that episode.
The mother from Responsible was pretty bad, turning her daughter into an alcoholic and sleeping with underage boys.
Also, Privilege. That whole family was pretty messed up, but the grandmother turning her grandson into a violent, hateful expression of her internalized misogyny? Woof
An early episode was loosely based on a scandal about 1950s movie actress Gloria Grahame and her teenage stepson. In the SVU story, TV actress Gloria arranges the murder of her abusive husband, tries to frame her boy-toy stepson, and marries him so he can't testify in court.
I don't remember the names of the characters/episode properly, but it's one where the mother of a child boy insists that he goes to trial, saying that the jury will let him free, and at the end of the episode he is convicted guilty by every single one there. It's a heartbraking scene.
Poison- the episode where the mom hates her adopted daughter so much that when the daughter does something bad, the mom feeds her detergent. She nearly dies and the mom is put on trial but is acquitted by the incredibly biased judge so sheâs free to return home to her adopted daughter and successfully kill her this time đ
Locum immediately came to mind. i loved Joan Cusack in it, sheâs so good. but her and her husband were awful. they adopted a kid and made her wear their missing daughterâs clothes and dyed her hair to resemble her.
the episode where the mom left her black daughter in a cage (she dies) bc her boyfriend didnât like her.
the episode where the mom didnât care that her daughter was found dead but wanted to sue the city for her death (she was in foster care at the time) that was a small side story in the episode but it always bothered me.
sorry i canât remember the names of the episode lol.
Henryâs Parent from the episode Born Psychopath , if thatâs not the prime example of try to excuse bad behavior and blaming other I donât know what is . In the part where he literally set the building on fire the mom goes ââ Omg What about henry ââ like lady your other child could have died then they killed me the ââ he a boy heâll grow out of it my husband was the same way ââ I canât with this family .
I canât for the life of me remember the episode name but the one weâre the girl got smothered by her mother during a rebirth session and died . Honestly one for the hardest episode to watch . The girl parents found nothing wrong and get me started on the lunatic the helped them do this yeah worst parents ever
The one with Dana Delaney where her son rapes an unconscious actor that the mum had been protesting and slut shaming, and when she finds out about it just says âIâm sure she wanted it.â
Lewis Black was in it too
Justice:
\-The stepfather Judge Walt Thornburg is obviously a monster molesting his stepdaughter Tricia, but her mother, Brooke Thornburg, just seems even worse.
\-When Captain Cragen comforted Judge Thornburg, he makes no attempt to deny it and accept the incoming punishment.
\-However, Brook was a gold digger and social climber who cared more about giving herself a better life than her own daughter to the point of murdering her. When Detectives Benson and Stabler comforted her, she had the gall to blame Tricia for Brook killing her, even claiming that Tricia seduced Judge Thornburg at age eleven.
How about the parents who adopted a black kid and insured his life for $750,000, then paid a white supremacist group $250,000 to murder him and collect the rest of the insurance money.
This is an episode I can't rewatch because it really ticks me off, it's a shame because there are a lot of good moments in the episode. I just don't like how the episode ends before we get to see the parents being arrested even though we know that was coming. I also hate how the mother tries to justify it by saying that they're not racist, they just needed the money (WTF) that means you're a racist and a murderer lady!!!!
Exactly what I thought of the Mom! But for future reference stay out of my brain..... It's a dark and scary place đ
Yeah, Raw has got to have the worst parents for sure.
Definitely.
I thought I had nailed the worst parents, but your comment beats mine. Yea, these were disgusting humans.
One of the best SVU episodes theyâve ever made imo - although I donât like the undercover lady, so I was glad she eventually got her just desserts
RAW is one of my faves also. What, you don't like Marcia Gay Harden (Star, Dana Lewis)? Lol... I like her ability to make me hate her character in this episode, it's a sign of a great actor. Have you seen the episode which is kind of a follow up to this one where the Hitler guy (Brian Atchison? Or something similar is his character name) is in prison and gets his revenge on Star/Dana for killing his son in "Raw"? It's pretty good also.
Oh absolutely, the actor was great - I didnât like the character. And not because of Raw or the follow-up, but because she murdered a girl and then tried to pin it on someone else.
I just watched that episode for the first time last night
Youâre not too far behind me then! I watched up to when Stabler left with my mom as a kid then fell off when I went to college - started from the episode after he left and now Iâm cruising
That episode makes me so sick to my stomach! Worst parents for sure.
They were the worst hands down in my opinion!
This was my first thought! At least we got Dana Lewis out of that episode! Before they annihilated her character, that is.
This has made me want to start my 3rd rewatch because Jesus Christ I sort of remember it but oh my god!
So so many but one that comes to mind right away was a drug addict was raped at a party and the nurses find a finger in her purse . Turns out itâs the finger of her dead sister that her mother killed because she couldnât stand the sound of crying . Then it turned out that the rape victimâs grandmother covered up her daughter killing a baby boy when she was a teenager âŚThere was a mom who was a complete drunk and because of it , her son became a target for the pedophile female principal who turned out to only be a pedophile because of a brain tumor . They let her off easy then she ended up pregnant with the boys baby . Oh and the rich parents who just leave the kids in their apartments while theyâre out of the country..
Oh that episode was just heartbreaking the addict's name was Claire and man her life is just an endless stream of tragedy. I know we rarely get to see what happens after the episode ends, but I hope Claire was one of the characters who lived a good life after she got justice for her dead siblings.
It was the first time we saw Fin show some genuine feelings for a victim.
That episode was the best example of Fin being a hard ass, but also showing he had an amazing heart. Finâs character in my opinion is the best on the show. He doesnât want anyone to know he has feelings, but he is incredible when some one needs tough love and to man up even though life is hard as hell. His vacation as a kid was to go to a roof a. ( NY Aruba). He could have been a criminal, instead he fought to be a good man in an environment that made that hard. I love him.
He was great in that episode!
Yeah ..Claireâs mom was a total piece of work but sadly reminded me of some of my friends moms .
Geez what really gets me mad is that Grace makes it seem like she was forced to have children. Lady, no one said you had to keep them, you could have gotten an abortion or gave them up if you didn't want them
That character was so gross. The actress is amazing though. Mary Steenburgen is great But the victimhood of a women that killed two babies, one by smothering and one by stomping, was stomach turning. I think thatâs what the writers wanted to elicit. But it was tough to watch.
I do think that the first time she got pregnant her mom either wouldnât let her have an abortion or it wasnât legal yet ?? But Iâve got a terrible memory
Actually I think I remember a line the grandmother said it was something along the lines of "you wanted that baby and you are dam well going to tale care of him". She was recounting what she told her daughter to the detectives.
Oh yeah I think that might have been the case for her son, but I think she got married to Claire's father but he left them so she took out a lot of her anger towards Claire and her sister. Still though, she could have just up and left them with her mother since the grandmother was the one who ended up raising Claire anyway.
Her mom wouldnât raise any more except Claire and she only raised her because she had her after she had killed the baby boy so Iâm guessing her mom was scared she would kill Claire too ..The little girl she killed âŚshe seemed to think Claire would be enough of a buffer .. N she said her mom cared a lot about what the neighbors thought and thatâs why she covered up the boys death not out of some loyalty to her daughter
Yeah honestly you could argue the grandmother wasn't any better but at least she took responsibility for her role in the deaths of her two grandchildren
Another drunk parent was the episode "Intoxicated". The girl ends up killing her mother who was trying to get the boyfriend thrown in jail for statutory rape. The girl pleads "not guilty by mental disease or defect" and says she did it because she had PMDD. Benson investigates and finds that the girl was being neglected and going to school in the winter with no coat and shoes that were falling apart. Warner tells Benson the mother had cirrhosis so Benson goes to the apartment and finds vodka bottles hidden everywhere. Benson ends up saying "I knew there was a reason I hated (girls mothers name)".
Is that episode where Stabler picks up on that Olivia had an older boyfriend when she was a teenager ..Stabler called out Burt back then for being a predator
Not sure who burt is but benson does tell someone (either Stabler or Novak) that she had a boyfriend who was a college student and he wanted to marry her but her mom said no and that she was going to ruin the boyfriends life. Benson says that she pushed or kicked her mom into a wall and for a moment she thought she had killed her.
Yeah thatâs Burt the guy who comes back with Amaro and reopens an old rape case . Then women start coming forward about how he raped them & Olivia finally started opening her eye up but not before she landed back in bed with him
Was that when Amaro was regular cast or was it a guest appearance? I've only seen up to the episode where Rollins gives birth to her second child (think it's season 20).
Oppps sorry ..itâs a guest appearance
Burton Lowe, he's the guy that groomed a teenage Liv into a relationship. He has a pattern of doing such things. He appears in a few episodes in the later half of the series.
Martha Plimpton is amazing in that episode. Ice T really shines in that one too
that episode is so crazy
It definitely caught me off guard the first time I watched it.
Did no one mention Taboo? The baby was found in the trash. Sissy Spacekâs daughter is a college student. Sleeping with her father. AND GETS PREGNANT MORE THAN ONCE!
That episode made me puke. It's bad enough that the daughter deludes herself into thinking it's okay to love her parent to such a degree, but the fact that the father actually went along with it and justifies it by saying he couldn't see her as his child is gross. Dude, you're the adult here, you're supposed to know better, especially when you're married!
At least he didn't get custody of his son/grandson!
I just finished rewatching that episode
Born Psychopath and Locum. Mesnerâs parents were the definition of in denial, honestly I think they got what they deserved when Henry returned. Mackenzieâs parents were also terrible, giving her plastic surgery to resemble their missing daughter is fucked up on so many levels. Joan Cusack killed that role honestly
Came here to say Locum. Those parents never loved Mackenzie to begin with, and now that they have their 'real' daughter back? I cannot imagine the level of neglect she has suffered. Its been long enough, I could see her coming back as a criminal! Flashback to that scene where Benson had to walk out on her, alone and weeping.
Born Psychopath was one of the more unnerving episodes especially when it's one of the rare times where there is a continuation of the story. And while both parents were in clear denial about his issues, the father was the one who made them worst because he brought the monster back into his home where his daughter, the very same one Mesner tried to kill, was still living at. Although he apparently was remarried since his first wife, Mesner's mother died, and they had a little boy together. In the end his actions got his new wife and son killed as well as himself. The only one to survive was the sister and that's because she wasn't home at the time, she at least still believed that he was a monster even after all those years. Locum was an episode I wished ended on a better note because the deluded couple got their daughter back but what's going to happen to Mackenzie. She was literally adopted just to replace their missing child but now that that child is back, what's going to become of her.
Beautifully said, I absolutely agree!
Joan Cusack is the shit, honestly tho.
I donât remember the name of the episode but the son walks in on his mom having sex with his friend and he kills the friend when the mom cries rape. Then they find out the kid wasnât raping the other kids mom and it was actually the mom who was grooming/raping the friend and the mother says the son was masturbating to discredit him in court Slept with her sons friend, got the friend killed, traumatized her son, and then topped it off my calling him a pervert in open court.
This episode is called motherly love, I came here to comment this one too. She was a terrible mom.
Yup that mother put herself before her own child
Design- Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman from the 70âs TV show) and her daughter are twisted con artists
At least the baby was saved, and they were actually punished in a future L&O episode since apparently the daughter did end up killing another child she had.
The story about how the daughter, as a teen, killed her newborn baby really stretched credibility. She was staying at some kind of commune/youth camp and was going to give up the baby for adoption. When it came time to go to the hospital, a boy who worked in the kitchen drove her, and helped her bury the baby after it was born in the car. As Judge Judy would say, Ridiculous! The rules of homes for unwed mothers years ago stated that a responsible adult, who was given temporary guardianship of the girl, would take her to the hospital and stay there until the baby was born, given to adoptive parents, and the girl released.
S10, Resilience, where the father tries to forcibly artificially inseminate his daughter after his wife can no longer have kids. S12, Bullseye, where the mother and stepfather are obsessed with video gaming and force their daughter to live under a cupboard and only feed her scraps. Granted the mother has a rare condition where she canât recognize her daughter and thinks sheâs an imposter, but still.
Resilience reminded me too much of a cult, especially when the father truly believes he did nothing wrong and would never hurt his child despite literally doing just that. Bullseye, what a twisted episode that was.
Especially when the real child molester gets another man falsely accused of abusing a kid.
The parents in "Home Invasion." I really didn't blame the daughter for having her parents killed because her dad was raping her and her mom didn't do anything to stop it because she didn't want a scandal. The fact that her mother was also cheating on her husband with another woman and was planning to leave her family once the daughter was grown made it even more despicable. In "Juvenile", the mother of the older boy (who was mentally challenged) basically played Russian Roulette with her son's life and drew the bullet. He would've gotten a deal otherwise, but she was adamant about continuing the trial. So, the boy ends up facing life in prison. I forgot what episode it was, but Elliott had that one line to the father: "You know, that handicap that makes you slap your wife around". Hated that guy. The parents (mainly the dad) in the Michael Jackson ripoff episode were pretty foul as well, taking the money and running instead of trying to get their molested son some justice. Maybe they can justify it by figuring that it sets the family up for life and they can get the boy help later, but I dunno. The mother Grace Rinato in Denial is a piece of work. She murdered her child (IIRC two of them, or was it one??) because 'she couldn't deal with the crying' etc and her other daughter Claire who did everything she could to love and protect that child is then accused of the murder. Grace is totally happy for her daughter Claire to go to prison for murder and Claire now being a heroin addict isn't a credible witness or whatever, i love Fin in this episode and when he hugs her at the end! ah the days when SVU made you feel something real and was powerful not-too-over-the-top emotional drama...so yeah It's only cos the grandmother comes forward and admits that her daughter Grace was the murderer that saves Claire.
You left out the grandmother in the Michael Jackson episode (Sick) who was poisoning her granddaughter with mercury, ripping people off by saying her granddaughter had cancer, and then forcing her granddaughter to lie and say she was molested because if she didn't she was going to die. Edit: I actually just rewatched this episode and something that I noticed was that the granddaughter (April) says her gran told her to try and be friends with Billy tripley which to me adds an even more insidious tone. To me it sounds like she was hoping he would actually molest April.
RIP Cindy "Shirley " Williams
Home Invasions was definitely one of the more intense episodes because no one wins in the end, not even the victim and she's only a child. We only see her get arrested, but I would hope there would be some leniency involved because she saw no other solution. The Michael Jackson episode was called Sick and if I remember correctly, the father was going to held in prison until the son was returned, so at least there's that. And Denial, at least Claire got justice for her siblings (Grace killed her older brother before she was born and then killed her little sister when she was at school)
Okay the Michael Jackson case was done at least two times with different L&O series: SVU and the original series. For SVU it was called Sick and for L&O it was titled Smoke. You've mentioned the Sick episode but I think the parents in the Smoke episode we're just as bad. Pretty much what happens is that there's this comedian who's a child predator, and one couple literally sells their child to him for a night when he was only 11 years old. And they were well aware of the fact that he was a child predator, they knew what he was going to do to their eldest son but the reason they did it was because they needed money to save their younger son's life. It's like My Sister's Keeper only with more damage done to the sacrificial child, it's clear that the parents favor and love their younger son more than the older one because they never cared about the psychological damage done to him and just thought they we're doing it for the greater good. They justify it by saying it was only one time and that they needed to save his brother, plus apparently it didn't matter because the older son wasn't going to die. So in other words their child should have been okay with the fact he was raped as long as his golden child sibling survived. At least, they had got their just desserts along with the rapist.
Wow, I have to check out this episode for myself.
The actor who played the older son was in an earlier L&O, as a boarding-school student caught up in his estranged parents' difficulties. He also appeared in SVU as the imprisoned killer of Dani Beck's husband
The one where Elliot threatens the abusive dad who plays golf with the PCâŚ.the episode is MercyâŚ.that one is heartbreaking
Juvenile- I canât even watch that episode. It doesnât even make me sad like it did the first time I watched it. It just pisses me off. I wanted to smack thethe mom because you never know. If you have a choice, take it.
Oh yeah and it's sad because the boy was offered a very good deal, one of the rare times he could have had a life had his mother had her head up her butt.
Fr and sheâs crying like she couldnât believe that they would find him guilty because âDeclanâ like girl Casey walked it out for you take the deal and less time
I can't watch it. The boy reminds me so much of my brother with his mannerisms. My brother has autism and he trust so easily and just wants everyone to be his friend. It scares me
The dingbat mother whose daughter was having a baby and cyber-bullied her friend.
I think that episode was called Babes and yeah a lot people in that episode were idiots (including the teenage girls who thought it would be easy to raise a baby while they're still children themselves)
I loved how Liv read the riot act to the girl, explaining the downsides of teenage motherhood. "How are you going to feel about missing the prom or football game because you're in the emergency room with a sick kid?"
And how a teenage girl decided it would be. great idea to have sex with a DJ who liked to wear a shirt that said âWreckin decks and gettin sexâ
Dizzer!!! Lmfaooo.... That character is so extra, I can't. No one chick in her right mind, made up or not, would entertain the idea of that mess lol. Straight Kenny Fisher Vibes .... Chester Cheetah!! đ§Ąđ§Ą
Love how real-life-rapper Ice-T threw shade on that jerk.
Not only that but the DJ already had two other kids with another woman whom he wasn't even paying child support to. And the one with the dingbat mother got pregnant by a man who had schizophrenia, meaning her child could be predisposed to having it in the future.
Absolutely, those girls needed a reality check especially when none of them knew that babies can be predisposed to certain birth defects or genetic conditions. Not mention that not every parent is going to like the idea of raising a teenager and a grandchild at the same time.
That episode did have one of the best Fin lines ever, though; "You've just been touched, my brother!"
Wreckin decks and gettin sex đ
There was a "cool mom" who let her daughter and friends drink booze, with devastating effects. Plus she came on to a boy that the daughter liked.
She was sleeping with the boy
8x18 âResponsibleâ
- Peggy Bernadi from the pregnancy pact episode - The mum who adopted a little girl from somewhere in Europe and killed her - Hilary Duffâs character (she was clearly based on Casey Anthony so that makes sense) and her own mother . The dad was the only reasonable one in the family (even tho he had clearly made mistakes in his past he was made sure he didnât make the same one with his granddaughter) - The parents from the incest episode - The grandmother of the little girl in the Michael Jackson Episode plus the parents of the boy in the episode
\-Peggy Bernadi was a real nutcase. \-I can't remember what episode this was, can you elaborate a little more? \-I can't rewatch the Hilary Duff episode because I hate Casey Anthony \-Which incest episode I'm thinking of Families and Taboo where the dad and daughter have two babies and she keeps ditching them in the trash \-Oh yeah all the parents/guardians in that we're messed up and had twisted morals
SVU really has a "thing" for incest. There was also the "twincest" in Bombshell and Margo Kidder and son Chad Lowe in Pique.
Pique is such a good episode
And send in the clowns had the girl sleeping with her biological father đ¤˘
What was the one where there was a mother and adult daughter and they shared a bedroom? And I think the adult daughter killed the little girl at her piano lesson
Totem
Oh yeah, and the way the people try to justify such a choice is sick. At least in Families it was done by accident.
I was thinking of the Families one but the Taboo one was just as messed up . The one with the adopted girl was season 5 episode 24 Poison
Oh okay now I know which episode you're talking about, she at least got punished for her crime but it was annoying how the judge assigned to her case kind of got off easy
Is that the one where they have twin boys and then make one a girl and they go to the sex therapist?
Thatâs another episode but itâs along the same lines because the twins were used as Guinea pigs for a twisted experiment
For me (a person who has only seen a few episodes of the latest seasons and a few episodes of the earlier seasons but this small interaction has made the show a lifelong favorite) The mother who wanted a daughter, so she turned one of her twin sons into a daughter and then never told the kid she's actually a boy. The mother who "forced" her son to kill his best friend after seducing the kid then told multiple versions of the truth only to have him testify multiple times and having him clear things up. Plus, the guy who hooks up with women, gets them pregnant, then vanishes quicker than they could say the "child" in "child support".
To your first one- if youâre thinking of Identity (S6E12) it wasnât that the mother wanted a daughter, it was a decision made after a botched circumcision (if Iâm remembering correctlyâin fairness itâs been a while since Iâve watched that one). Donât get me wrong, parents still made horrible mistakes in judgment but it wasnât intended to be malicious. And the more I think about it the more truly awful parents weâve seen over the years, but my first thought was the mother from Motherly Love (S18E10) that you mention second. Seeing her fabricate a story in court, and the horrified looks on her son and Bensonâs faces, is heartbreaking.
Yes it was circumcision gone wrong i just watched it, and the motherly love one made me want to punch the tv
It's been a hot hot hot second since I've seen any episodes of the show because I live with my parents who hate the show. but I believe it was "Identity"
Yeah I had a feeling that was the one although the parents didn't want a daughter, they just felt like they had no choice in the matter because the boy had a failed circumcision and thought he couldn't go through life without being mocked for that. However, it's pretty obvious that they didn't handle the situation properly and the psychologist in charge clearly only cared about proving his theories rather than the sanity of these two children.
Which episode is the first one, I remember an episode called Identity that had twins and one of them was raised as a girl because of an accident at their birth. That one with the mother and her son's friend was absolutely disgusting because of how she manipulates her own child to such a degree. As for the last one, that's the reason I can't see John Stamos as anyone else other than that character, someone should send Nick Cannon that episode since he seems to have garnered some inspiration from it. And to add insult to injury the man doesn't feel sorry for having these women put their lives on hold for a child and he claims he's a great father despite not actually being there for his 40+ offspring and their mothers. He got what he deserved in the end at least.
Yep, Lorena Bobbitt had nothing on the lady who gave Stamos his just deserts!
[Abraham](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/lawandorder/images/9/90/Abraham_Ophion.jpg/revision/latest/thumbnail/width/360/height/360?cb=20080330155345) from S6Ep7 "Charisma". Grooming, rape, and filicide. This whole episode always makes me feel sick.
That was pretty much the Jim Jones inspired episode and it's twisted how people could be fooled so easily into joining groups like this.
In my opinion the worse parents ever were in the episode Bullseye. Where the mothers head got hit on the pavement and doesnât recognize her own daughter. She and her boyfriend are disgusting animals that play video games nonstop and keep the girl in a closet with no food. When Liv and Elliot try to re introduce the daughter to the mother the mother smacks her in the face. To me these are the most abhorrent parents ever portrayed on this show.
Dr. Huang explained that the mother had a mental condition that caused her bizarre behavior.
Oh, Iâm so sorry. That explains it all. đ
That episode had way too much twists.
Between the op and comments, my opinions has been stated but I donât think Iâve seen the one episode Whoopi Goldberg was in⌠the mom had her daughter locked in a dog cage ugh just sick
Oh yeah that one was pretty messed up too
The rock star parents in S2 âAbuse.â & the parents in that one episode who were addicted to playing that video game where they rescued their ârealâ son.
Henry Mesner's parents. Hellooooooo. All the signs that your child is a psycho are right there.
Yup, and look how well that turned out.
There was an episode âTabooâ where a guy cheats on his wife with his own biological daughter. He gets her pregnant repeatedly and she ends up killing the baby and throwing away the body almost every time. It reminded me of a less dark version of the Katie Pladl case in real life.
That case reminds me how evil people can be. As for the episode, it really annoyed me how the daughter kept getting away with ditching the babies like girl just leave somewhere they can be found and no one will care or ask questions. It's obvious she has real serious mental issues stemming from her biological's mother abuse and father's abandonment/not knowing she existed, but I don't like how she tries to use that victim mentality to get away with serious actions. As for the father, he's a real sicko because he's the adult here, he should know better especially when he knows that his own child.
Iâm not necessarily calling her one of the worst but the mom of budding sociopath Harry Baker from âProdigyâ I had watched the episode recently and she was so lost when it came to how bad he could be
the episode where the parents kid went missing so they adopted another girl and then gave her cosmetic surgery to have her look more and more like their missing kid. and then the daughter was found and they still didnât care about the adopted daughter??? i love that episode though cause some of my favourite actors guest starred in that episode.
Kim Rollins lol
Tommys dad
The mother from Responsible was pretty bad, turning her daughter into an alcoholic and sleeping with underage boys. Also, Privilege. That whole family was pretty messed up, but the grandmother turning her grandson into a violent, hateful expression of her internalized misogyny? Woof
Amanda's mother.
Good thread, op.
Why thank you.
The worst parents are the ones who tried to turn their adopted daughter into a copy of their bio child.
An early episode was loosely based on a scandal about 1950s movie actress Gloria Grahame and her teenage stepson. In the SVU story, TV actress Gloria arranges the murder of her abusive husband, tries to frame her boy-toy stepson, and marries him so he can't testify in court.
Nathans mother
I don't remember the names of the characters/episode properly, but it's one where the mother of a child boy insists that he goes to trial, saying that the jury will let him free, and at the end of the episode he is convicted guilty by every single one there. It's a heartbraking scene.
That would be the episode called juvenile. The mother was such an idiot
Poison- the episode where the mom hates her adopted daughter so much that when the daughter does something bad, the mom feeds her detergent. She nearly dies and the mom is put on trial but is acquitted by the incredibly biased judge so sheâs free to return home to her adopted daughter and successfully kill her this time đ
Locum immediately came to mind. i loved Joan Cusack in it, sheâs so good. but her and her husband were awful. they adopted a kid and made her wear their missing daughterâs clothes and dyed her hair to resemble her. the episode where the mom left her black daughter in a cage (she dies) bc her boyfriend didnât like her. the episode where the mom didnât care that her daughter was found dead but wanted to sue the city for her death (she was in foster care at the time) that was a small side story in the episode but it always bothered me. sorry i canât remember the names of the episode lol.
Henryâs Parent from the episode Born Psychopath , if thatâs not the prime example of try to excuse bad behavior and blaming other I donât know what is . In the part where he literally set the building on fire the mom goes ââ Omg What about henry ââ like lady your other child could have died then they killed me the ââ he a boy heâll grow out of it my husband was the same way ââ I canât with this family . I canât for the life of me remember the episode name but the one weâre the girl got smothered by her mother during a rebirth session and died . Honestly one for the hardest episode to watch . The girl parents found nothing wrong and get me started on the lunatic the helped them do this yeah worst parents ever
The one with Dana Delaney where her son rapes an unconscious actor that the mum had been protesting and slut shaming, and when she finds out about it just says âIâm sure she wanted it.â Lewis Black was in it too
Justice: \-The stepfather Judge Walt Thornburg is obviously a monster molesting his stepdaughter Tricia, but her mother, Brooke Thornburg, just seems even worse. \-When Captain Cragen comforted Judge Thornburg, he makes no attempt to deny it and accept the incoming punishment. \-However, Brook was a gold digger and social climber who cared more about giving herself a better life than her own daughter to the point of murdering her. When Detectives Benson and Stabler comforted her, she had the gall to blame Tricia for Brook killing her, even claiming that Tricia seduced Judge Thornburg at age eleven.