History Recap / Dragnet1967S2E22TheLittleVictim

Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in Juvenile division. While giving a speech on abused children, Friday and Gannon receive a call from a hospital. A mother comes into a hospital claiming that her baby fell down the stairs, but the doctor believes the baby was abused. The investigation finds that the husband is abusing the baby.

Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in Juvenile division. While giving a speech on abused children, Friday and Gannon receive a call from a hospital. A mother who comes into a hospital claiming that her baby fell down the stairs but the doctor believes the baby was abused. The investigation is found that the husband is abusing the baby.

* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: When Louise starts to divorce Walter when in jail, she later on admits that she missed him. When he showed up one day at her house after he is released, she takes him back. Only for Walter to kill Andy.
* AbusiveParents: Big time, Walter hurts his child, Andy, to the point of being admitted to the hospital while the mother, Louise, stands by and does nothing. It is implied that she is also abused.

* BystanderSyndrome: Ruth Fowler doesn't want to get involved with the Marshall's as she believes Walter spray painted her door to read ''mud'' due to his temper. She changes her mind when she hears Walter kill Andy.

* ChildHater: Walter Marshall does not like his son. Believes that he is the cause of all the problems with his life. Louise also comes to this conclusion. When Andy dies, she believes that all the problems to the two have were caused by Andy.
* CutHimselfShaving: Louise keeps telling everyone that Andy fell down the stairs. However, everyone is not convinced due to location of his injuries and that hospital doctor notes that x-rays showed healed broken bones.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Andy is killed, Walter knows he is going to jail and did not mean to kill Andy. Louise thinks they can go back to normal before Andy was born but Walter knows it won't happen. Walter is sent to jail for life according to [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue epilogue]].
* TimeSkip: One of the biggest in the series. The story skips ahead 1 year and 5 months between the beginning of the case and the end.
* WouldHurtAChild: The father, Walter Marshall, hits his child, Andy, so hard that it forces Andy to be in the hospital. Andy does recover, but when Walter visits his son a year later, he kills his son.

* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: When Louise starts to divorce Walley when in jail, she later on admits that she missed him. When he showed up one day at her house after he is released, she takes him back. Only for Walley to kill Andy.
* AbusiveParents: Big time, Walley hurts his child, Andy, to the point of being admitted to the hospital while the mother, Louise, stands by and does nothing. It is implied that she is also abused.

* BystanderSyndrome: Ruth Fowler doesn't want to get involved with the Marshall's as she believes Walley spray painted her door to read ''mud'' due to his temper. She changes her mind when she hears Walley kill Andy.

* ChildHater: Walley Marshall does not like his son. Believes that he is the cause of all the problems with his life. Louise also comes to this conclusion. When Andy dies, she believes that all the problems to the two have were caused by Andy.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Andy is killed, Walley knows he is going to jail and did not mean to kill Andy. Louise thinks they can go back to normal before Andy was born but Walley knows it won't happen. Walley is sent to jail for life according to [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue epilogue]].

* WouldHurtAChild: The father, Walley Marshall, hits his child, Andy, so hard that it forces Andy to be in the hospital. Andy does recover, but when Walley visits his son a year later, he kills his son.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Andy is killed, Walley knows he is going to jail and did not mean to kill Andy. Louise thinks they can go back to normal before Andy was born but Walley knows it won't happen. Walley is sent to jail for life according to [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue Epilogue]].

* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: When Louise starts to divorce Walley when in jail, she later on admits that she missed him. When he showed up one day at her house after he is released, she takes him back. [[spoiler:Only for Walley to kill Andy.]]

* BystanderSyndrome: Ruth Fowler doesn't want to get involved with the Marshall's as she believes Walley spray painted her door to read ''mud'' due to his temper. [[spoiler:She changes her mind when she hears Walley kill Andy.]]
* CensoredChildDeath: [[spoiler:When Andy is dead, the blanket in his crib covers his "body".]]
* ChildHater: Walley Marshall does not like his son. Believes that he is the cause of all the problems with his life. [[spoiler:Louise also comes to this conclusion. When Andy dies, she believes that all the problems to the two have were caused by Andy.]]

* HappyPlace: Deconstructed. Mrs. Marshall adores her husband and is happy that things can go back to normal [[spoiler:when Andy is killed.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: The father, Walley Marshall, hits his child, Andy, so hard that it forces Andy to be in the hospital. Andy does recover, [[spoiler:but when Walley visits his son a year later, he kills his son.]]

* [[spoiler:CensoredChildDeath: When Andy is dead, the blanket in his crib covers his "body".]]

Sargent Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in Juvenile division. While giving a speech on abused children, Friday and Gannon receive a call from a hospital. A mother who comes into a hospital claiming that her baby fell down the stairs but the doctor believes the baby was abused. The investigation is found that the husband is abusing the baby.

* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Deconstructed. When Louise starts to divorce Walley when in jail, she later on admits that she missed him. When he showed up one day at her house after he is released, she takes him back. [[spoiler:Only for Walley to kill Andy.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Come back when my husband isn't home.]]

* ChildHater: Walley Marshall does not like his son. Believes that he is the cause of all the problems with his life.

* ValuesDissonance: Due to changing times. A social worker would be in charge of the case than the police and there are many more protections to the child, which the doctors and social worker would be able to take the child away from both parents. However, for its time the episode aired, it shows how difficult it is to prove child abuse. Unless someone witnesses the offender in the act or the offender confesses, most allegations of child abuse cannot be substantiated. And to treat it purely as a social problem denies justice to the victim of the abuse - the child.

Sargent Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in Juvenile division. While giving a speech on abused children, Friday and Gannon receive a call, a mother comes into a hospital claiming that her baby fell down the stairs but the doctor believes the baby was abused. The investigation is found that the husband is abusing the baby.

* ValuesDissonance: Due to changing times. A social worker would be in charge of the case than the police and there are many more protections to the child, which the doctors and social worker would be able to take the child away from both parents. However, for its time the episode aired, it shows how difficult it is to prove child abuse. Unless someone witnesses the offender in the act or the offender confesses, most allegations of child abuse cannot be substantiated. And to treat it purely as a social problem denies justice to the victim of the abuse - the child.