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| “ | The urges, they don't go away... because they can't. See, bad things do happen, Hailey. Bad things happen, but you can control how they happen. You can control who they happen to. That is what I learned. You can sacrifice the ones that are already broken to save the rest. | „ |
| ~ Sean rationalizing his pedophilia to Hailey Upton. |
Sean O'Neal is a supporting antagonist who appears in several episodes of Chicago P.D. He is the son of the Police Chief Patrick O'Neal and a sex trafficker who preys on preadolescent girls.
He was portrayed by Jefferson White.
Biography[]
He is first introduced as a trespasser in an abandoned building, being found by Hailey Upton who arrived at the house to investigate the spot the missing girls were held. Sean told her that he got a tip that women were being held there though was brought in and was interrogated by Hailey but soon reveals he is a human rights advocate and son of the police chief, who soon arrived to check on him and takes him out of the room.
Much later, he meets Hailey again and they get on better terms, with him helping on the case. However, Hailey becomes suspicious of him after a trafficking victim commits suicide after she mentioned his name. Hailey remembers the number in the dead sex trafficker's phone and realizes that Sean is a conspirator and was searching the house to cover his tracks.
Intelligence starts to investigate him, despite his father trying to stop them at every turn. Hailey and her sergeant, Hank Voight, eventually catch him trying to kidnap a 12-year-old girl and arrest him. Patrick gets Sean released on bail, but Sean knows that he has finally been caught. When Hailey tries to get him to tell her where the other trafficking victims are, he refuses to tell her, instead lamenting that he had tried to repress his pedophilic urges through therapy and religion; he also rationalizes his actions by saying that he "only" victimized children he deems too "broken" to ever have normal lives.
After Voight shows him irrefutable proof of his son's crimes, Patrick shoots Sean and turns the gun on himself. Voight and Hailey find them; Patrick is already dead, but Sean is barely alive, so they call an ambulance after a moment of hesitation. Sean is then imprisoned for life for human trafficking and child sexual abuse.
External links[]
- Sean O'Neal on the Chicago P.D. Wiki
