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* ADayInTheLimelight: A minor one for T.A.R.U. Technician Ruben Morales. After defying an order from Cragen to shut down Teddy's child porn website, he becomes more emotionally invested in the case than usual. [[spoiler:He tells Stabler how his young nephew was molested by an online pedophile, and Morales feels guilty because he bought and set up his nephew's computer.]]
* BigBrotherBully: Teddy is first seen pushing his little brother Jake away from a video game, and flat-out says to Stabler that he doesn't care if Jake gets molested by their father, who once did the same to him. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that Teddy had been molesting Jake, as well as making child porn videos of him and selling them to pedophiles through his personal website.]]

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* ADayInTheLimelight: A minor one for T.A.R.U. Technician Ruben Morales. After defying an order from Cragen to shut down Teddy's child porn website, he becomes more emotionally invested in the case than usual. [[spoiler:He He tells Stabler how his young nephew was molested by an online pedophile, and Morales feels guilty because he bought and set up his nephew's computer.]]
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* BigBrotherBully: Teddy is first seen pushing his little brother Jake away from a video game, and flat-out says to Stabler that he doesn't care if Jake gets molested by their father, who once did the same to him. [[spoiler:It It is later revealed that Teddy had been molesting Jake, as well as making child porn videos of him and selling them to pedophiles through his personal website.]]



* LikeFatherLikeSon: Teddy is [[spoiler: a sexual predator like his father.]] Fin even Lampshades it.

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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Teddy is [[spoiler: a sexual predator like his father.]] father. Fin even Lampshades it.



* NotMeThisTime: When Jake is revealed to have been molested, suspicion is immediately cast on his father, who was jailed for having molested his older son Teddy, but has been released and has weekly supervised visits with his younger son. [[spoiler:Turns out it was Teddy.]]

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* NotMeThisTime: When Jake is revealed to have been molested, suspicion is immediately cast on his father, who was jailed for having molested his older son Teddy, but has been released and has weekly supervised visits with his younger son. [[spoiler:Turns Turns out it was Teddy.]]



* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to his mother, Teddy used to be a happy, normal boy before he was molested by his father, after which he became sullen and withdrawn, spending all his time in his room playing computer games and refusing to eat dinner at the table with the rest of the family. [[spoiler:And then it's revealed that he was not only molesting his kid brother, but making pornographic videos of him to sell to pedophiles online.]]

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* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to his mother, Teddy used to be a happy, normal boy before he was molested by his father, after which he became sullen and withdrawn, spending all his time in his room playing computer games and refusing to eat dinner at the table with the rest of the family. [[spoiler:And And then it's revealed that he was not only molesting his kid brother, but making pornographic videos of him to sell to pedophiles online.]]
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Eight-year-old Jake Winnock propositions a male classmate and detectives soon learn that his father had previously spent seven years in prison for molesting Jake's older brother Teddy. However, DNA tests clear Gregory Hensal of abusing his son, but instead implicate Teddy, who has been running his own personal Internet pornography site under his father's nose and using it to sell videos of him molesting his brother to other pedophiles.

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Eight-year-old Jake Winnock propositions a male classmate and detectives soon learn that his father had previously spent seven years in prison for molesting Jake's older brother Teddy. However, DNA tests clear Gregory Hensal of abusing his son, but instead implicate Teddy, who has been running his own personal Internet pornography site under his father's mother's nose and using it to sell videos of him molesting his brother to other pedophiles.
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* TheChainOfHarm: Teddy was molested by his father, and then years later did the same things to his younger brother.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: SVU is tipped off to a problem after a young child reveals that one of his classmates has been talking about sexual acts -- something which those familiar with this sort of thing immediately recognize as a potential red flag of a child being sexually abused.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: SVU is tipped off to a problem after a young child reveals that one of his classmates has been talking about sexual acts -- something which those familiar acts. As with many cases of this sort type, the main concern isn't with Jake's behavior in and of thing immediately recognize as itself, but the fact that what he did is a potential red flag of a child being sexually abused.abused (which in this case turns out to be accurate).
** Teddy himself is much more serious example, as he's not only selling himself via cam shows but also abusing his younger brother as part of the show. While he too is acting out as a result of abuse, his behavior, unlike Jake's, is far too serious to overlook. At the end of the episode, he finally admits that he's not okay and needs help.
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* MoodWhiplash: In the teaser, a woman from an abuse-prevention organization is shown having a light-hearted conversation with a kid about typical sibling hijinks, complete with [[ConsultingMisterPuppet using her hand puppet for emphasis]]. Then she calls up the next kid... who tells her that his friend (Jake) had been talking about "rubbing weenies". You can see the woman's entire demeanor visibly shift as she realizes she's now dealing with something extremely serious.

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* MoodWhiplash: In the teaser, a woman from an abuse-prevention organization is shown having a light-hearted conversation with a kid about typical sibling hijinks, why they shouldn't rub boogers on their sister, complete with [[ConsultingMisterPuppet using her hand puppet for emphasis]]. Then she calls up the next kid... who tells her that his friend (Jake) had been talking about "rubbing weenies". You can see the woman's entire demeanor visibly shift as she realizes she's now dealing with something extremely serious.
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* CorruptingPornography: The teenage Teddy was already traumatized by being sexually abused by his father. But he also met child pornography viewers online, and they groomed him and paid him to upload videos of him molesting his younger brother, ensuring that the abuse continued.
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to his mother, Teddy used to be a happy, normal boy before he was molested by his father, after which he became sullen and withdrawn, spending all his time in his room playing computer games and refusing to eat dinner at the table with the rest of the family. [[spoiler:And then it's revealed that he was not only molesting his kid brother, but making pornographic videos of him to sell to pedophiles online.]]

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* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to his mother, Teddy used to be a happy, normal boy before he was molested by his father, after which he became sullen and withdrawn, spending all his time in his room playing computer games and refusing to eat dinner at the table with the rest of the family. [[spoiler:And then it's revealed that he was not only molesting his kid brother, but making pornographic videos of him to sell to pedophiles online.]]]]
* YouLookFamiliar: Guest star Connor Paolo (Teddy) had previously appeared in season 4's "Juvenile", as Zachary Connor.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: SVU is tipped off to a problem after a young child reveals that one of his classmates has been talking about sexual acts -- something which those familiar with this sort of thing immediately recognize as a potential red flag of a child being sexually abused.
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* MoodWhiplash: In the teaser, a woman from an abuse-prevention organization is shown having a light-hearted conversation with a kid about typical sibling hijinks, complete with using her hand puppet for emphasis. Then she calls up the next kid... who tells her that his friend (Jake) had been talking about "rubbing weenies". You can visibly see the woman's entire demeanor shift as she realizes she's now dealing with something extremely serious.

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* MoodWhiplash: In the teaser, a woman from an abuse-prevention organization is shown having a light-hearted conversation with a kid about typical sibling hijinks, complete with [[ConsultingMisterPuppet using her hand puppet for emphasis.emphasis]]. Then she calls up the next kid... who tells her that his friend (Jake) had been talking about "rubbing weenies". You can visibly see the woman's entire demeanor visibly shift as she realizes she's now dealing with something extremely serious.
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* MoodWhiplash: In the teaser, a woman from an abuse-prevention organization is shown having a light-hearted conversation with a kid about typical sibling hijinks, complete with using her hand puppet for emphasis. Then she calls up the next kid... who tells her that his friend (Jake) had been talking about "rubbing weenies". You can visibly see the woman's entire demeanor shift as she realizes she's now dealing with something extremely serious.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Morales tries this on Lucas.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Teddy is [[spoiler: a sexual predator like his father.]] Fin even Lampshades it.
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* NotMeThisTime: When Jake is revealed to have been molested, suspicion is immediately cast on his father, who is in jail for having molested his older son Teddy, but has weekly supervised visits with his younger son. [[spoiler:It wasn't him--it was Teddy.]]

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* NotMeThisTime: When Jake is revealed to have been molested, suspicion is immediately cast on his father, who is in jail was jailed for having molested his older son Teddy, but has been released and has weekly supervised visits with his younger son. [[spoiler:It wasn't him--it [[spoiler:Turns out it was Teddy.]]
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An eight-year-old boy (Creator/JackVignone) propositions a male classmate. When Stabler and Tutuola are called in, they learn that the boy's older brother (Creator/ConnorPaolo) was molested by their father (Creator/TimHopper). DNA tests reveal that a pattern of abuse has infected the family with the older brother running his own pornography site. The webmaster goes missing and Ruben Morales (Creator/JoelDeLaFuente) joins the detectives in their search. His own guilt about his nephew's rape by an online predator colors his judgment when dealing with one of the suspects.

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An eight-year-old boy (Creator/JackVignone) propositions a male classmate. When Stabler and Tutuola are called in, they learn that the boy's older brother (Creator/ConnorPaolo) [This description was molested by their father (Creator/TimHopper). DNA tests reveal that a pattern copied in violation of abuse has infected the family our Administrivia/{{Plagiarism}} policy. Please replace it with the older brother running his own pornography site. The webmaster goes missing and Ruben Morales (Creator/JoelDeLaFuente) joins the detectives in their search. His own guilt about his nephew's rape by an online predator colors his judgment when dealing with one of the suspects.
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* InstantSedation: When Teddy gets kidnapped by one of his pornography site clients, he's drugged with chloroform. He struggles for only a few seconds before he's out cold.
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* FiveFiveFive: Benson, working at the Computer Crime Unit, traces the IP addresses of two of the customers at Teddy's site. All the addresses shown start with numbers in the thousands. A burner phone one of them used starts with 555.
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A mother is devastated by the revelation that her eight-year-old son has been sexually abused years after her ex-husband was sent to prison for molesting her older child, whose DNA now implicates him in his brother's case.

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A mother is devastated by the revelation that her An eight-year-old son has been sexually abused years after her ex-husband was sent to prison for molesting her boy (Creator/JackVignone) propositions a male classmate. When Stabler and Tutuola are called in, they learn that the boy's older child, whose brother (Creator/ConnorPaolo) was molested by their father (Creator/TimHopper). DNA now implicates him in tests reveal that a pattern of abuse has infected the family with the older brother running his brother's case.
own pornography site. The webmaster goes missing and Ruben Morales (Creator/JoelDeLaFuente) joins the detectives in their search. His own guilt about his nephew's rape by an online predator colors his judgment when dealing with one of the suspects.



* NotMeThisTime: When a young boy has been molested, suspicion is immediately cast on his father, who is in jail for having molested his older son, but has weekly supervised visits with his younger son. [[spoiler:It wasn't him--it was the older son.]]

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* NotMeThisTime: When a young boy has Jake is revealed to have been molested, suspicion is immediately cast on his father, who is in jail for having molested his older son, son Teddy, but has weekly supervised visits with his younger son. [[spoiler:It wasn't him--it was the older son.Teddy.]]

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After a young boy claims molestation, the investigation turns from his pedophile father to another family member.

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After a young boy claims molestation, Written By Creator/PaulGrellong

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the investigation turns from revelation that her eight-year-old son has been sexually abused years after her ex-husband was sent to prison for molesting her older child, whose DNA now implicates him in his pedophile father to another family member.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: A minor one for T.A.R.U. Technician Ruben Morales. After defying an order from Cragen to shut down Teddy's child porn website, he becomes more emotionally invested in the case than usual. [[spoiler:He tells Stabler how his young nephew was molested by an online pedophile, and Morales feels guilty because he bought and set up his nephew's computer.]]
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* BigBrotherBully: Teddy is first seen pushing his little brother Jake away from a video game, and flat-out says to Stabler that he doesn't care if Jake gets molested by their father, who once did the same to him. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that Teddy had been molesting Jake, as well as making child porn videos of him and selling them to pedophiles through his personal website.]]
* NotMeThisTime: When a young boy has been molested, suspicion is immediately cast on his father, who is in jail for having molested his older son, but has weekly supervised visits with his younger son. [[spoiler:It wasn't him--it was the older son.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to his mother, Teddy used to be a happy, normal boy before he was molested by his father, after which he became sullen and withdrawn, spending all his time in his room playing computer games and refusing to eat dinner at the table with the rest of the family. [[spoiler:And then it's revealed that he was not only molesting his kid brother, but making pornographic videos of him to sell to pedophiles online.]]

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