Parents Protect Their Kid's Abuser | Law & Order SVU

That kid was molested and instead of protecting their son, they signed a shut up contract and forced their son to keep quiet for a bunch of hush money, and then when their son started acting out and hurting their daughter and other kids, they did nothing to protect their daughter and paid off the parents of the other kids to keep them quiet. These parents are complete and utter garbage. They basically pimped out their underage son and allowed him to abuse his sister and other innocent kids. They are the exact type of people who shouldn't have children in the first place.

The actor playing this kid is ALARMINGLY good at sounding like an angry adult: excellent acting!

This boy is doomed. His parents didn't protect him, no one has helped him cope with his trauma, and this kid is angry at the wrong people.

Those people sold out their own kid, they care more about the money rather than their son being sexually abused. It really infuriates me.

Why is it that parents always care more about the child that's being abusive rather than the child that's being abused?

These parents sicken me. They signed a dodgy document to keep their child quiet just for money. And then instead of using the money to give him the therapy he needs they allow him to self destruct and put other kids including their daughter at risk. It's even worse knowing there are plenty of parents who do this in real life

My mom always said that if someone had touched me or my brothers, there is NO dollar amount that would make her forget that.

They basically took the route of "how can we base this off Micheal Jackson without actually explicitly say it was Micheal Jackson?"

I will never understand why any parent would choose money over their children.

If I had a son with issues like that, I wouldn’t ignore them. I’d do my best to make sure he’d get the help he’d need

Outbursts of anger, violent tendencies. This young man is a good actor. These are things children do when they are being abused (in any way)

The kid who played JJ is excellent. I either feel sorry for him or he scares me.

The parents didn't help their son because his suffering was their $4,000,000 gain. Disgusting how his parents caved into greed like that.

I remember this episode well. More screentime should've been invested to confront the parents, I would've love to see Stabler roughing up the dad till a breaking point and he admits what happened.

The parents are monsters. How are they allowed to keep custody of their kids? They should have been charged with something like endangering the welfare of a child.

I have a friend who was molested when she was little, around 4 yrs or so. She remembers the physical pain from the encounter, and the emotional pain from being beaten and blamed for it by her mother. She’s well into her 40’s now and she still chokes up and cries when she remembers the incident. Such wounds from childhood never heal.

I've never watched this show, but it's clear the psychologist was the only one who realised the child was being abused because of how "adult" he was acting. I feel like if a little girl was acting out the same way, the detectives would've figured it out too. This is how sexually abused children act.

“You don’t understand! I’m not allowed to talk about it!” The way he just stands up and goes from 1 to 100, knocking stuff over, was truly a child screaming and hurting inside. And since he didn’t know what else to do with those intense emotions and trauma, he really did impulsively want the world to burn and suffer with him. It doesn’t excuse that he’s hurt others but all the blame isn’t on him but all on his parents for betraying him. I don’t get how parents can sleep at night being aware what’s happened to their kid like that.

Fact: in the ending the father and mother moved the kid out of state to keep him from testifying and the father was held in contempt as he still refused to give up the boys location and the lawyer who was appointed to look After his sons best interest was determined to keep the father in jail until he gave in

"That's what I said, Moron." Lol, fuckin classic. He's the kid from the "Stacy's Mom" video byFountains of Wayne