YMMV / Cold Case S 1 E 8 Fly Away

• Complete Monster: Josh Freely is a brutal pedophile who uses his position, as a social worker working with emotionally unstable parents, to find new victims, of which he has eight at the very least. Freely piles emotional abuse onto the parents, making them feel as though they're worthless, so they surrender their kids to him, and if that doesn't work, he's more than happy to fudge his own records so his superiors order the children removed. His abuse eventually reaches the point that one such mother attempts to kill herself and her young daughter—with the latter dying—rather than let Freely take her.

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