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Worst TV Show of the Week

Law & Order: SVU on NBC

It is nearly impossible to watch an episode of Law & Order: SVU (Wednesdays, 10:00 p.m. ET) without feeling sickened. The January 5^th episode was no exception. The show that regularly plucks stories from the headlines drew from an actual pedophilia handbook as the apparent inspiration for a nauseating plot…and the subsequent violence and sexual content earned it the title of Worst TV Show of the Week.

The episode begins with a man finding his girlfriend unconscious, bound to a chair, in nothing but girlish underwear with the name “Brandy” embroidered onto it. Her assailant – wearing only a creepy opaque mask and a pair of white briefs - attacks the boyfriend from behind and flees. Later, at the hospital it is revealed that the attacker drugged the woman, Larissa, and shaved her from head to toe to make her appear like a pre-pubescent girl. The name given to her, Brandy, was in reference to underground films popular among pedophiles which featured an abused child given the name Brandy. The detectives watch a snippet of the videos where a masked man orders a young girl to strip for the camera. The young girl in the video has a distinctive star-shaped birthmark on her shoulder – the exact same one as Larissa.

Detectives Stabler and Benson determine that the assailant, named Eldon Balogh, had previously raped two ten-year-old girls, calling them Brandy while he assaulted them. Eldon evidently targeted Larissa because she was the actual abused girl in the original Brandy videos. Eldon manages to sneak into the hospital and rapes Larissa before being arrested. During the interrogation, he admits that he discovered Brandy’s true identity from the man who originally kidnapped and raped Larissa as a young girl, Orville Underwood.

After being acquitted of Larrisa’s kidnap/rape due to lack of evidence, Orville became a lawyer, defending pedophiles like himself, always staying just above the law.

Upon searching Eldon’s home, a photo of Larissa is found with Orville’s sperm on it. Orville concocts an excuse saying that he went over to Eldon’s place, suddenly had an urge to masturbate, used the bathroom, and his DNA must have landed on the magazines next to the toilet where the picture might have been.

The District Attorney believes she can nail Orville on conspiracy charges since several pedophilic novels which he wrote were found in his apartment and served as how-to manuals for Eldon and other child predators. But without further corroboration, the judges dismisses the charges. Stabler and Benson enlists Larissa’s help in trying to locate one of the other exploited children in the Brandy videos, a boy she knew only as Daniel. But when Stabler and Benson eventually locate Daniel, they discover him with two children, shooting a pornographic video. Daniel is too psychologically damaged to help the prosecution’s case and Larissa is left to seek revenge on her own. She shoots Orville through the head, but escapes arrest when the detectives discover a kidnapped girl huddled in Orville’s bathtub.

This past November, Amazon.com pulled a self-published how-to guide for pedophiles from its online store after waves of public outrage. The author of "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct,” Philip Ray Greaves, has since been arrested for obscenity charges. If the actual story wasn’t disturbing enough, Law & Order: SVU delivers an even more terrible tale. That’s all we need – a TV program that exploits child molestation for the purpose of “entertainment.”

For horrific sexual and violent content, Law and Order: SVU has been named the Worst TV Show of the Week.