Law and Order SVU - Episode 15.19 - Downloaded Child - Review

In this season we have seen episodes that touched on very sensitve issues. Comedians making rape jokes that lead to an assault of a young college student. A college football player coming out that he was gay. After the out of town visiting student  was sexually assaulted by a gay cheerleader. This episode was about child pornography and the long term effects that it can have on the victim.

I loved this episode because you really got to see the pain that Jenny went through in her eyes. Her step - father  died so they couldn't press charges against him for the abuse. So instead Barba went after the men that downloaded the images, videos and shared them with others. 
Which was brilliant because in the end each of the men had to pay Jenny for her emotional damages.

This episode is a perfect example of how dangerous the internet can be. Once you put something out there, videos, pictures, there is no way of taking them down. Just like what FBI tried to do with Jenny's videos and photos. For every one they erased, there where a hundred more men out there downloading them. 

Its heartbreaking to think about what Jenny went though all those years. Then to have her husband rape her and made her believe because their married it wasn't rape. That poor thing had one hell of a life, never knowing what it's like to be loved by a man.

The only thing that I didn't care for was the Benson -- Cassidy storyline. Don't get me wrong; I have been a huge fan of them since the first season when they hooked up, but it just seems like they lost their spark. Maybe that's what the writers wanted, to set up the "talk" that lend to the "I love you"... 

But I really thought that this was a powerful episode, I hope people learned a lot from it. That there is not such thing as a victimless crime, and for every action, there is a reaction.