Kevin O'Donnell (Law & Order: SVU)

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“	Minor-adult relationships are normal, safe, and healthy.	„
	~ O'Donnell rationalizing molesting children.

Kevin O'Donnell is the main antagonist of the 2009 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Hardwired". He is a pedophile and serial child molester who heads the pedophile rights group Our Special Love.

He was portrayed by Garret Dillahunt, who also portrayed Julian Pruese in Law & Order, Mason Turner in Criminal Minds, Krug Stillo in the remake of The Last House on the Left, John Gavenue in Burning Bright, Steve Curtis in ER, and Ty Walker in Justified.

Biography[]

O'Donnell is a pedophile who sexually abuses prepubescent girls. He founded the pedophile advocacy group Our Special Love, which preaches that pedophilia is a natural, hardwired sexual orientation, and that adult-child sexual relationships should be legal. Any pedophile who wishes to join OSL is required to send O'Donnell photos or videos depicting them molesting children in order to prove they are not undercover cops.

He even manipulated one of his victims, an 11-year-old girl named Rebecca who came from an abusive home, into believing that he loved her, and that molesting and raping her was his way of showing it. Once she hit puberty, however, he lost interest in her and told her to move in with a relative. Despite that, they stayed in contact, and she credits him for helping her achieve her academic dream.

"Hardwired"[]

When Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit arrest Thomas Banks for raping his stepson Corey, Banks reveals that O'Donnell recently approached him to offer him a job as data manager for OSL, and had asked for a video of Banks raping Corey to prove he wasn't a Fed. O'Donnell is having dinner with Banks tonight to give him a flash drive containing the names and addresses of 5, 000 OSL members, and Banks agrees to help the SVU set him up in return for a reduced sentence. O'Donnell arrives at the Banks home that night and has dinner with Banks, Corey, and Banks' wife (and Corey's mother) Eva, while Benson and Stabler secretly watch them in hopes that O'Donnell will incriminate himself. O'Donnell waits until Eva is out of the room before showing Corey the video of Banks raping him in order to "reassure" him that his "relationship" with Banks is normal. He then gives Banks his flash drive and transfers all the data onto Banks' laptop, at which point Benson and Stabler arrest both men, though not before Eva loses her temper and stabs Banks.

Benson and Stabler also arrest the entire membership of Our Special Love for child sexual abuse and possession of child pornography after crime tech unlocks the files and find thousands of images and videos that O'Donnell solicited from them in return for membership. After O'Donnell refuses to admit to committing any crime, Stabler nearly attacks him with a chair but regains his wits after O'Donnell shows no fear and taunts him on how it won't stop his group's movement. Stabler then hauls him to a cell with the other detained Our Special Love members and tells them they have him to thank for their incarceration by keeping their names and addresses on his computer. Terrified by the hateful glares, O'Donnell demands his lawyer, but a smug Benson replies that he will have to wait until the following day. The next morning, Benson and Stabler find O'Donnell with a black eye and covered in bruises, showing the members attacked him in revenge for his actions.

Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot tries O'Donnell for his crimes, but he and his lawyer offer the defense that pedophilia is a sexual orientation, not a psychological disorder, and that adult-child sexual relationships are healthy and normal. Forensic psychiatrist George Huang, who is testifying for the prosecution, is offended as both a psychiatrist and a gay man by O'Donnell's defense, and loudly condemns both it and him before the judge silences him.

O'Donnell's former victim Rebecca testifies on his behalf, even as she appears to waver when Cabot asks her if having sex with him ever made her feel dirty. As Eva testifies about the pain and trauma Corey suffered as a result of Banks' abuse, Corey himself bursts into the courtroom and says that Banks was hurting him, not "loving" him. He also makes sure that the jury knows that O'Donnell told Thomas to do it.

O'Donnell is ultimately found guilty of multiple counts of sexual abuse, and sentenced to 3,000 years in prison (having received separate two-year sentences for every indecent image of children on his computer), while Banks is sentenced to 20 years in prison for abusing Corey.

External links[]

Kevin O'Donnell on the Law & Order wiki

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