"YOU'RE DISGUSTING! YOU ARE!" The Worst Parents on SVU

[Chairperson Meow]

There was one I remember, it starts off with a pregnant girl about to jump off a roof. She tells Benson she was raped. They wrongly prosecute a wealthy lab owner for rape. Turns out the daughter and her dad were creating "superbabies" in a sperm bank/lab. The daughter was drugging wealthy guys, athletes, etc and raping them to get their sperm. She impregnated herself to create a "superbaby" to sell. There was a couple was set to adopt her baby, so Benson was trying to find the baby. The daughter hid it and refused to tell unless they dropped charged. So the dad is in prison, the mom was going to flee to sell the baby, but they get it back and give it to the couple. The couple is like "Yeah it better be smart, we paid a lot of money. " So it's like double crap families.

[Princess Sparkle]

There was one I remember, it starts off with a pregnant girl about to jump off a roof. She tells Benson she was raped. They wrongly prosecute a wealthy lab owner for rape. Turns out the daughter and her dad were creating "superbabies" in a sperm bank/lab. The daughter was drugging wealthy guys, athletes, etc and raping them to get their sperm. She impregnated herself to create a "superbaby" to sell. There was a couple was set to adopt her baby, so Benson was trying to find the baby. The daughter hid it and refused to tell unless they dropped charged. So the dad is in prison, the mom was going to flee to sell the baby, but they get it back and give it to the couple. The couple is like "Yeah it better be smart, we paid a lot of money. " So it's like double crap families.

 

Ah yes, the episode where I found out that sticking a cattle prod up someone's rectum causes involuntary ejaculation.  Only it was the mother she was in-cahoots with, not her dad.  Which I remember, because her mother was played by Lynda Carter, and I was incredibly disturbed by the thought of Wonder Woman sticking a cattle prod up Bobby Flay's butt.  

 

Thank you SVU for making that last sentence I thing I could type.

Edited March 17, 2015 by Princess Sparkle

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Ah yes, the episode where I found out that sticking a cattle prod up someone's rectum causes involuntary ejaculation.  Only it was the mother she was in-cahoots with, not her dad.  Which I remember, because her mother was played by Lynda Carter, and I was incredibly disturbed by the thought of Wonder Woman sticking a cattle prod up Bobby Flay's butt.  

 

Thank you SVU for making that last sentence I thing I could type.

 

Wasn't the baby's bio-dad played by Julian Sands, or am I conflating this with another episode? And yeah, the girl's dad was more like a sperm donor than anything else, and he was her patsy, not a co-conspirator.

 

Also, "Wonder Woman sticking a cattle prod up Bobby Flay's butt" is the funniest thing I've read all month.

[Spartan Girl]

How about the dad that was not only molesting his child but also using her as a model for a child porn website in the episode where Stabler goes to Prague to investigate some sex trafficking episode?  That's one of my favorite Stabler moments in the show: he comes up on the dad while he's asleep on the coach, almost pulls the trigger, but then thinks better of it and arrests the dad.  The dad has the nerve to ask where is daughter is, and Stabler snarls, "Like you give a damn!"

[Princess Sparkle]

Wasn't the baby's bio-dad played by Julian Sands, or am I conflating this with another episode? And yeah, the girl's dad was more like a sperm donor than anything else, and he was her patsy, not a co-conspirator.

 

Also, "Wonder Woman sticking a cattle prod up Bobby Flay's butt" is the funniest thing I've read all month.

I aim to please : )

 

And yes, Julian Sands was the bio-dad.  

[SeenYouWitKieffah]

How about the old woman in Totem who molested her daughters, warping them to the point that the younger one molested and murdered the older sister's piano student? That episode was in the latter, super wacky seasons but is memorable for featuring female sexual predators. 

[Donny Ketchum]

How about the old woman in Totem who molested her daughters, warping them to the point that the younger one molested and murdered the older sister's piano student? That episode was in the latter, super wacky seasons but is memorable for featuring female sexual predators. 

Yeah, I'd count her, as well.  She was pretty awful.  But we've seen female sexual predators before.  This was just, I think, the first one to contain female-to-female pedophiles.  All of the others were female-to-male.  I've asked all around for any episodes dealing with female-to-female ones, but no one here seems to have an answer.

[Donny Ketchum]

I actually do think sleeping with your child's spouse DOES make you a shitty parent.

 

Case in point: the mother in the teen drunk driving/partying episode that enabled her daughter into being an alcoholic, gave out booze to her classmates, and slept with the boy her daughter had a crush on.  Not to mention getting her lawyer to blame everything on her daughter during trial.

To be fair, at least she finally got how terrible she was, owned up, and confessed when she saw the long-term damage her daughter would face.  So I'd put her on the lower end of disgusting parents.

 

I just watched "Legacy," and I have a new one to add to the upper end.  The mother from that episode, who merely saw her daughter as a means to an end and put her in the hospital by first throwing her to a curb, and then against a wall, and then being willing for her father and then her stepbrother to take the fall for it.  All because she wanted her daughter to stop crying.

[Spartan Girl]

Ugh, yeah that **** in "Legacy" was terrible.  As was the mother in Munch's story about the abused neighborhood girl from his childhood.  She kills her daughter by throwing her out the window and has the nerve to say "I don't know what the fuss is about, I'M the one that had to get a new window?"  There ain't no hell deep enough for either of those bitches.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Ugh, yeah that **** in "Legacy" was terrible.  As was the mother in Munch's story about the abused neighborhood girl from his childhood.  She kills her daughter by throwing her out the window and has the nerve to say "I don't know what the fuss is about, I'M the one that had to get a new window?"  There ain't no hell deep enough for either of those bitches.

 

Richard Belzer killed me in that episode. Munch was usually such a smart-mouthed cynic that it was startling to see him expose his soft underbelly for a few minutes.

[Donny Ketchum]

Ugh, yeah that **** in "Legacy" was terrible.  As was the mother in Munch's story about the abused neighborhood girl from his childhood.  She kills her daughter by throwing her out the window and has the nerve to say "I don't know what the fuss is about, I'M the one that had to get a new window?"  There ain't no hell deep enough for either of those bitches.

The one excuse the mother in Munch's story had is that at least she was mentally disturbed.  The mother we saw in the actual episode had no excuse, though.

[Princess Sparkle]

Well, I'd say the mother in the actual episode was probably mentally disturbed as well. Her mother knew she was getting molested by her father, and the response was for to send her to boarding school and wave it away as "she's a daddy's girl".

I mean, it's no excuse. But she clearly had some mental issues as well - and with the need for attention, I think it was supposed to be some version of Munchausen Syndrome.

Edited March 26, 2015 by Princess Sparkle

[Spartan Girl]

I just watched "Retro" the other day, and I hated the idiot mother who infected her baby with HIV, partly because of her own ignorance and partly because she was in the thrall of the crackpot doctor.  I know she was arguably also a victim of that doctor and she ultimately paid for her willful stupidity with her life, but have zero patience for people that don't vaccinate their kids or don't treat them for diseases because they believe some stupid conspiracy theory about vaccinations being the thing that makes you sick.

[Chairperson Meow]

There was one I saw recently where a couple adopted a child, but the woman decided the child was too much trouble, so she surrendered him to this center in New Jersey. The center gave him to this weird pedophile couple who made videos of kids and rented them or sold them. The man was obese and pretending to be paralyzed. Stabler arrested him while he was at a buffet at the airport. They were the worst parents, but my favorite arrest. Poor kid even had a bad adoptive mom. But I remember the adoptive dad loved him.

[Malbec]

Yeah, I'd count her, as well.  She was pretty awful.  But we've seen female sexual predators before.  This was just, I think, the first one to contain female-to-female pedophiles.  All of the others were female-to-male.  I've asked all around for any episodes dealing with female-to-female ones, but no one here seems to have an answer.

 

It's been a while since I've seen the episode so I could be remembering wrong, but in "Damaged" didn't the female perp molest her younger sister (giving her an STI no less)?  

[Donny Ketchum]

It's been a while since I've seen the episode so I could be remembering wrong, but in "Damaged" didn't the female perp molest her younger sister (giving her an STI no less)?  

Ah, yes!  I forgot Missy did that to poor, doomed Rebecca!  I just don't think they revealed how she did it, though.

[whatsatool]

In Savant Katie recalls he gives my dad Money in a briefcase. Does this mean her dad goes to prison or is it part of FBI scam?

[Donny Ketchum]

Not exactly a parent, but a grandparent deserves acknowledgement, as well.  I forgot the episode, but there was a young woman went down for murder at the end of an episode, in part because the murder she'd committed was due to her being so warped due to inattentiveness from her completely uncaring grandmother, who was supposed to have taken care of her since her mother died, but was too self-absorbed to do so.

 

The episode ended with the young woman shouting, "I needed a mother!"  And then, her uncaring grandmother replied, "Well . . . she died."  Right before leaving her for Elliot and Olivia to arrest.

[Spartan Girl]

Maybe she's not "disgusting" but the mother Rita Wilson played in "Delinquent" was so damn stupid it was unbelievable. After being in such deep denial about her son being a rapist and a murderer, she suddenly reveals at the end "oh by the way, he was molested by his babysitter when he was little and I never called the cops about it but I thought he'd be okay!" Seriously?!

That kind of willful stupidity IS disgusting, and I hope her son's victims sued her for everything she had.

[derriereslechats]

The parents who raised their biological son as a girl because there was an accident during his circumcision. The saddest part is that episode is based off real events.

[Princess Sparkle]

The parents who raised their biological son as a girl because there was an accident during his circumcision. The saddest part is that episode is based off real events.

In high school, I actually had to read the book about the real-life children the episode is based on, and shockingly, SVU makes the psychiatrist behind this look more sympathetic than his real life counterpart.  Just like in the show, he really did make the children act out various sexual positions with each other, but he also tried to force the parents into giving the one child further surgeries to create a vagina for the child, and then continued to report in studies that this case was successful, when in actuality, the child was struggling and suffering greatly(and, in fact, went to living as a boy by his teenage years and had multiple surgeries later in life to correct the surgeries done to him as a baby).  And then used his reports of success to convince other doctors and parents that gender was so malleable, that it was appropriate to reassign the gender of intersex children at birth.  

 

Sorry for that tangent, but ugh, he was a horrible man.  This was a case where I think SVU made the parents look worse, since it real life, they were not well off, and were truly looking to this doctor to help them and got taken advantage of.  

Edited August 13, 2015 by Princess Sparkle

[Donny Ketchum]

Though she's not exactly on the high end of the worst parents, would it be okay to throw in Shane Madden's mother from "Head?"  She reacted appropriately to learning of his molestation by his principal, though it took a while to get her there.  I remember that when Elliot and Olivia first told her about it, she actually acted like she was proud of him because she thought he'd had consensual sex with a girl his age.  She only registered horror on her face when Elliot outright said they were talking about an adult.  And later, it was revealed she got drunk publicly when Shane around, including at one of his soccer games.

 

Only at the end was she finally being a parent (or at least showing mostly appropriate, if not somewhat understandable, reactions to things) when she gets pissed off at Meredith Rice and beats her up for calling Shane when she's not supposed to and telling him she's pregnant with his child.

[Spartan Girl]

She was still a drunk bitch.

And how about the abusive alcoholic mother in "Intoxicated"? She was pretty awful. I can't blame her daughter for finally snapping and killing her.

[Donny Ketchum]

And how about the abusive alcoholic mother in "Intoxicated"? She was pretty awful. I can't blame her daughter for finally snapping and killing her.

The daughter did get off easy for that, right?  I can't remember.

[Spartan Girl]

Yup, she got off lighter than she would have under other circumstances. Her lawyer was someone that helped Liv after she got into a physical altercation with her own mother, and since Liv empathized with the daughters plight once the truth was known, they worked out a deal.

[Donny Ketchum]

Yup, she got off lighter than she would have under other circumstances. Her lawyer was someone that helped Liv after she got into a physical altercation with her own mother, and since Liv empathized with the daughters plight once the truth was known, they worked out a deal.

That's good.  At least some victimized children managed to get off.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Yup, she got off lighter than she would have under other circumstances. Her lawyer was someone that helped Liv after she got into a physical altercation with her own mother, and since Liv empathized with the daughters plight once the truth was known, they worked out a deal.

 

In a way, Liv's empathy annoyed me, because it was it was part of the retcon that her mom was an alcoholic, which she wasn't initially. That said, they didn't know the mom, who was played by Cathy Moriarty, was either an alcoholic or abusive until they were really going over her apartment and found umpteen empty booze bottles - in the oven, under the sink, in the laundry hamper, all over the place.

[SparedTurkey]

 

it was part of the retcon that her mom was an alcoholic, which she wasn't initially.

Wasn't she an alcoholic as of season 2 though? I thought in the episode where the died it was made pretty clear she was an alcoholic? Which was earlyish on in the show from my memory.

[Donny Ketchum]

Okay.  I've brought it up twice on a different thread and have been ignored.  So let's see if it fares better on this thread.

 

The nutcase mother in "Poison," who poisoned her daughter into a coma, and then into virtual mental retardation for no other reason but she felt too much pressure raising too many children.  Case should've been a slam dunk, but she got off from what was obviously one of the most biased judges ever, who did so only because he approved of her level of social class, but had meanwhile convicted a woman ten years prior over a similar crime of which she was innocent just because she was of a lower social class.  And then, as soon as the terrible mother gets off, she then, at the very judge's suggestion (via an ex parte communication during a recess in the trial, apparently), finishes the job on her poisoned daughter by smothering her to death.  Only then does she finally get the conviction she so deserves.

 

Only way that would've been more satisfying was if Judge Taft had gotten some kind of penalty harsher than a simple censure.

 

Still, as I said on another thread, if you were a fan of Casey, that was probably one of her best episodes.

[Princess Sparkle]

Ok, he was technically a grandparent, but he still belongs here.  The grandfather in Quickie is a complete idiot.  In the episode, we find out that the perp thinks his mother abandoned him, and so he hated her, which makes him hate women. At the end, we find out that his grandfather has been lying to him, and what actually happened was that his mother killed her boyfriend for beating her and her son (the perp), and so she went to prison. The grandfather said he went with the "your mother abandoned you" story, because he thought that he was protecting the grandson, and that it was "better than the truth."

 

In what world is letting a kid think their mother didn't love them and so they abandoned them better than knowing their mother killed the man beating them?  AND THEN he kills himself in front of his grandson, because he thinks it will make him a better person.  WTF?

[MrsRafaelBarba]

How about the old woman in Totem who molested her daughters, warping them to the point that the younger one molested and murdered the older sister's piano student? That episode was in the latter, super wacky seasons but is memorable for featuring female sexual predators.

Is that the one with Jeremy Irons and Elizabeth Mitchell?

[Donny Ketchum]

Is that the one with Jeremy Irons and Elizabeth Mitchell?

It is, and one of my favorite episodes.:)

[Spartan Girl]

I know maybe they weren't technically "disgusting" but I really hated Evie's parents in "Pornstar's Requiem" for abandoning their daughter in her time of need. I get they were embarrassed, but their daughter was raped and instead of supporting her, they slut-shamed her. And i really hated her mother for waiting until her daughter had run away to actually show any concern for her. Too little, too late, lady.

[Paron Xanthis]

I think Manuela Ozuna from the recent "Institutional Fail" deserves a mention here.  She abandoned one child and let the other starve in a dog cage just over a man she had no business being with.  Fin's verbal slam on her in prison was terrific.

 

I hope her son does forget all about her and has a good life with his new family.

[Spartan Girl]

Rollins' mother definitely belongs on this thread. Instead of owning up to the fact that Kim is a sociopath, she blames Rollins for everything and abandons her when she's pregnant.

Instead of getting upset, Rollins should have just said, "Yes, I am putting my job over family because you and Kim both suck!" That would have been amazing.

[Noirprncess]

I would definitely second the nomination for Rollins mother....who willfully ignored evidence that her daughter, Kim was up to no good AND in trouble. Crazy lady indeed.

 

I would also consider the mother of Humphrey Becker (from 'Scavenger'), who had an obsession with Humphrey Bogart which resulted in her cruel version of mental and emotional abuse heaped on her son who turned into a serial killer.   Even with the police she couldn't help but continue to compare her son's failing to the "greatness" of Humphrey Bogart.  It was slyly revealed that she would leave her son at home alone to go watch his movies...but she locked him in a closet to keep him safe, just to be sure and all.  Ann Meara played this role perfectly.   

[Spartan Girl]

The father in "Taboo" that had sex and impregnated his long-lost daughter...and tries to adopt his grandson/son at the end. Ewwwwww. Olivia couldn't get him to let go of the baby soon enough.

[swimmyfish]

I would also consider the mother of Humphrey Becker (from 'Scavenger'), who had an obsession with Humphrey Bogart which resulted in her cruel version of mental and emotional abuse heaped on her son who turned into a serial killer.   Even with the police she couldn't help but continue to compare her son's failing to the "greatness" of Humphrey Bogart.  It was slyly revealed that she would leave her son at home alone to go watch his movies...but she locked him in a closet to keep him safe, just to be sure and all.  Ann Meara played this role perfectly.   

 

Ann Meara's shift from 'slightly doddering older lady' to 'monstrously cruel and abusive parent' is amazing. The scorn that she has for her own child gives me chills just thinking about it. Damn, that was a good episode.

[Spartan Girl]

Emma's grandparents in "Alien", who basically manipulated Emma into falsely accusing her mother Zoe of molesting her because they didn't approve of their dead daughter (Emma's other mother) being a lesbian Granted, they were played by their lawyer becaus of his anti same sex marriage agenda, but it's still despicable. Zoe did the right thing by cutting them out of Emma's life at the end.

[Princess Sparkle]

I cannot remember her character name, but Debi Mazar in Babes was pretty terrible.  Obviously, she didn't actually make that one girl commit suicide, but the shit she said to her was awful, and her excuse for doing so was pathetic.

 

However, from that same episode, Michael Badalucco was an A+ parent.

[fitzcarraldo]

The mom and step dad in season 3 "justice". Step dad rapes 11 year old, sends her to juvie using his judge powers and mom takes her rape baby. Then four years later mom murders her.

[Spartan Girl]

I'm always torn about that one.  Yes, what they did was bad, and I can't totally blame Zoe for what she did at the end.  But as you said, they were played by their lawyer, and badly.  And in the end, at least they did own up and apologize to Zoe.  That's better than most of the bad parents and grandparents on this show.

I might have bought that if it wasn't obvious that they were already homophobes and they wanted any excuse to take Emma away from that home.

[Spartan Girl]

Were they already?  I could've sworn it was the lawyer who planted homophobic thoughts into their head.

No it was pretty obvious that they didn't approve of her daughter leaving her husband and son for another woman. The only thing the lawyer planted in their head was the idea that Emma was being molested.

[slowpoked]

I just saw the Trade episode last night and have one more parent add to the list. The father screwed his son's fiancee, and apparently a lot of other ex-girlfriends as well. According to the son, everything was a competition to his father, and so he always shows up his son whenever he thinks he has the upper hand (whether a hot new girlfriend, a big business deal, etc.)

 

So it was some kind of weird satisfaction when the son's lawyer who was apparently in love with him all this time, took the son down with him a high building and committed suicide for both of them, with her parting words "I'm not going to allow you to hurt him anymore..."

[watcher]

The mother that was at a hotel when her nanny was killed in front of her son. She goes on to tell her husband that she's leaving and the son is really her lovers and not his, but he had to keep paying support.

[Spartan Girl]

The mother that was at a hotel when her nanny was killed in front of her son. She goes on to tell her husband that she's leaving and the son is really her lovers and not his, but he had to keep paying support.

Ah yes, the mother from "Paternity". She was a real piece of work. And even worse, even though she was going to make him keep paying child support, she was never going to let him see him again...which is really shitty considering he was the only father he knew. I honestly didn't blame the husband for killing her at the end.

Edited November 17, 2015 by Spartan Girl

[DollEyes]

Let's not forget Jaina Jansen, the so-called "mother" in "Sacrifice," who was a porn star with a sick child who not only brought her daughter on the set, she had her husband/the child's father, shot and abandoned the child so that she could run off to Las Vegas, or would have, if Benson & Stabler hadn't caught her, that is. The dad was a porn star himself, but at least he did it to raise money to care for the daughter whom Jaina didn't even try to give a shit about. 

Edited November 28, 2015 by DollEyes

[Spartan Girl]

Yeah, Jaina obviously didn't give a shit about her husband either, considering how she was going to let him take the fall for the murder of her boss/director and ditched her child to go to Vegas. What a bitch.

And I think both parents in "Shattered" were horrible. Classic case of two people using their child to get back at each other. And BOTH of them paid somebody to kidnap their son; in the father's case, it ended up getting the poor kid killed.

Edited November 28, 2015 by Spartan Girl

[bowsandbats]

I'm stuck trying to find an episode. I think it is from SVU (but might just be regular law and order) where the child was molested a while ago and the parents got a pay out for it, and then they used the money to pay for surgey for their other child. But at the end it is revealed that they had recieved the money in their bank accounts prior to their child being molested, so they knew exactly what was going to happen. Help please.

[WendyCR72]

I'm stuck trying to find an episode. I think it is from SVU (but might just be regular law and order) where the child was molested a while ago and the parents got a pay out for it, and then they used the money to pay for surgey for their other child. But at the end it is revealed that they had recieved the money in their bank accounts prior to their child being molested, so they knew exactly what was going to happen. Help please.

 

Sadly, I don't recall the episode name, but I do remember it was on the Mothership and was sort of a riff on the whole Michael Jackson mess.