YMMV / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S3 E18 "Guilt"

• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Sam's mother, Linda Cavanaugh, initiates the police investigation into his abuse. The detectives proceed according to protocol and build a strong case against the alleged abuser. However, when the stress of the case causes Sam to attempt suicide, Linda blames ADA Cabot and the SVU detectives and attacks them quite viciously. Then she refuses to let the detectives search her son's room even though it couldn't hurt him at that point, and there were reasons to believe they'd find hard evidence against Roy Barnett there.