A female pundit is assaulted during a protest, but Benson and Barba struggle to put their political beliefs to the side in order to help the victim get justice.
Rollins and Velasco try to track down a missing teenage sex worker, and they uncover an important clue among several neglected missing persons reports.
When a paroled rapist is shot by his own gun, the detectives discover the murder weapon was used in another crime while the victim was previously incarcerated.
The detectives pursue a criminology professor whom they believe to be the rapist who utilized expert knowledge of forensics in the murder of a graduate student.
After finding the remains of a child who disappeared in 1978, Stabler reopens a cold case involving four Puerto Rican boys who went missing 30 years earlier.
While searching for the person who sexually assaulted a young woman, the detectives are led to a man whose conception was the product of a sexual assault.
When the battered body of a 5-year-old girl is found at a construction site, the detectives begin to investigate the victim's socially withdrawn foster brother.
The detectives work on a case that leads them to suspect that a corrupt police officer has been pulling over women for false traffic violations and raping them.
A kindergartner's painting leads to an investigation of the child's family for sexual abuse; the investigation is altered after the boy's father is found dead.
The detectives realize that they have stumbled upon the trail of a serial pedophile after discovering the decomposing body of a sexually molested girl.
The brutal rape and subsequent death of an FBI informant helping to catch online pedophiles sends detective Stabler on the trail of the victim's last lead.
After finding the body of an 8-year-old beauty pageant contestant, the detectives learn the killer first played out the crime on a virtual-pornography website.
While searching for the person who sexually assaulted a young woman, the detectives are led to a man whose conception was the product of a sexual assault.
When the battered body of a 5-year-old girl is found at a construction site, the detectives begin to investigate the victim's socially withdrawn foster brother.