- SVU goes after Social Services after a pattern of falsified reports leads to the death of a young girl, but Benson is receiving a lot of political pressure to let it go and not open up a can of worms.
- A starving toddler found wandering the streets alone leads detectives to the home of Manuela Ozuna (guest star Jessica Pimentel) and another child in grave condition. The police question Department of Child Services caseworker Keith Musio (guest star John Magaro), whose vague and backdated reports on the family suggest he hadn't checked on the children in months. When the overworked Keith accuses his supervisor, Janette Grayson (Goldberg), of orchestrating the false reports, Chief Dodds (guest star Peter Gallagher) promises to conduct an internal investigation. But when neglect leads to death, Barba (Raúl Esparza) takes matters into his own hands and arrests them for manslaughter. Meanwhile, Dodds indicates some changes coming to Benson's (Mariska Hargitay) squad.
- When a young boy is found wandering the street, the team investigates. They learn the boy and his family are under the eye of Child Services but they are so swamped that they can't find the boy's file. They eventually find it and go to his home and find his sister locked in a dog cage. They take the girl to the hospital but she's in bad shape that they can't do anything for her. They find the mother strung out. Child Services says that during their case worker's last visit everything was OK. When the mother is lucid to talk, she says that their case worker has not seen them in months and it was during that time that the mother's boyfriend locked her daughter in the cage. They check Child Services out and it turns out that the one in charge told her case workers to lessen their visits to their charges' homes and to put in their reports that everything is OK. The team wants to arrest them but the brass is worried of the fallout but Barba decides to arrest everyone involved and charge them with manslaughter. Dodds warns Olivia there may be some fallout over this.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
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