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| “ | The bastard deserved worse than he got! He needed to know what it felt like to be violated. He could dish it out, but he couldn't take it! | „ |
| ~ Kelley justifying himself for sodomizing his stepson Eric Byers |
Sean Kelley is a supporting antagonist in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Confession". He is the stepfather of teenage pedophile Eric Byers who takes the law into his own hands when he comes to believe that Eric molested his son, Corey.
He was portrayed by Josh Charles, who also portrayed Detective Fowler in Four Brothers.
Early life[]
Kelley was a builder who married a woman named Dana Byers, who had a teenage son named Eric; Kelley also had a son of his own, five-year-old Corey, from a previous relationship. He had a difficult relationship with Eric, an emotionally disturbed social misfit who frequently acted out and drank heavily. The stress of dealing with him took a toll on their marriage, with Kelley and Dana fighting constantly over what to do with him.
Unbeknownst to him, however, Eric's problems were far worse than either he or Dana realized; Eric was a pedophile who harbored a growing sexual obsession with Corey.
In "Confession"[]
When Eric goes to the NYPD's Special Victims Unit and tells Detective Olivia Benson that he has sexual urges about children, Benson and her partner, Detective Elliot Stabler, alert Kelley and Dana, who reluctantly consent to Corey being examined for signs of sexual abuse. Corey does not exhibit any of the symptoms of sexual abuse trauma, but Kelley and Dana throw Eric out of the house anyway, fearing for Corey's safety.
Benson and Detective Fin Tutuola find one of Corey's shirts stained with semen and suspect that Eric had indeed abused Corey, but forensic testing proves that the semen is Kelley's, not Eric's. Benson and Tutuola confront Kelley at one of his building sites and accuse him of molesting his son, but Kelley says that he merely cleaned himself with the shirt after masturbating, explaining that having to deal with Eric's behavior has destroyed his and Dana's sex life and that he needed a release.
Soon afterward, Dana finds pictures of little boys in Eric's room that had been supplied to him by Jake Berlin, a pedophile who runs a website called Pediaphax that posts sexualized, but non-pornographic, pictures of children so his customers can relieve their urges without breaking the law. She also finds a posting from Eric on the website in which he brags about raping a little boy. Convinced that Eric is talking about raping Corey, an enraged Kelley drives to the apartment where Eric has been staying and attacks him, holding him down and sodomizing him with Corey's homemade baseball bat.
When Corey is found murdered, Benson, Stabler, and Tutuola immediately suspect Kelley, especially upon discovering that Corey's baseball bat was the weapon used to sodomize Eric. When they arrest Kelley, he says that Eric had to pay for molesting Corey. Even when Benson informs him that his son was not abused in any way, Kelley justifies his crime by saying that pedophiles deserve to be "wiped off the planet". He nevertheless denies killing Eric, saying that he left his stepson bleeding but alive.
Medical examiner Melinda Warner tests the blood at the crime scene and finds that the killer suffers from diabetes, which Kelley does not have - but Berlin does. Benson arrests Berlin, who confesses to killing Eric because the boy had broken Pediaphax's main rule, "Look but don't touch". Kelley, meanwhile, is imprisoned for sodomy and sexual assault, and Dana presumably divorces him.
External links[]
- Sean Kelley on the Law & Order Wiki
