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Shane Mills is an antagonist in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Impulsive". He is a hypersexual teenager who rapes his teacher and then tries to frame her for statutory rape.
He was portrayed by Kyle Gallner, who also portrayed Cassidy Casablancas in Veronica Mars and James Heathridge in Criminal Minds.
Biography[]
Shane was born with a genetic defect which caused him to develop a higher-than-average sex drive. This first manifested itself when he was ten years old, when he came across a pornographic video online. He soon became obsessed with sex and began seeking out online pornography every chance he got, masturbating five or six times every day. This later escalated to having sex with dozens of prostitutes, often paying them to fight back so he could fantasize that he was raping them. He eventually contracted gonorrhoea from one of his regular prostitutes.
Shane's parents asked his English teacher, Sarah Trent, to tutor him in order to help him get into an Ivy League school. Sarah agreed to come to his apartment on Tuesdays after school for tutoring sessions. Unfortunately, during one of these sessions Shane suddenly got the urge to have sex and enticed Sarah into his bedroom before pinning her against the wall and raping her. Sarah was too ashamed to tell her husband what happened, so she disposed of her clothes in order to get rid of the evidence of her rape. She later discovered she was pregnant with Shane's child.
"Impulsive"[]
Two months after the rape, Shane gets himself checked for venereal diseases and is diagnosed with gonorrhoea. Not wanting his lifestyle to be exposed, and knowing that he probably infected Sarah, he accuses her of raping him during a tutoring session and claims he got gonorrhoea from her. Sarah is arrested and tells the Special Victims Unit that Shane raped her, not the other way around. Both Sarah and Shane are interviewed on suspicion of rape, but the SVU can find no evidence to show which one is telling the truth.
In order to further incriminate Sarah, Shane cuts her face out of photographs in the yearbook and photoshops it onto sexually explicit photos he found online before anonymously sending the photos to the police in the hope of making her look promiscuous. Meanwhile, Sarah has her foetus from the rape aborted but is caught in the act by the SVU, who believe she was trying to destroy evidence; this, combined with the photos, is enough to convince them to have Sarah charged with statutory rape.
After Sarah's defence asks that the evidence of her abortion be suppressed, Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak has her released on bail in the hope that she will try and meet up with Shane, sending the detectives to tail both Sarah and Shane in order to catch her in the act. However, when detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson tail Shane to a hotel room believing he is with Sarah, they instead catch him having sex with a prostitute. Shane is arrested for patronizing prostitution, and the detectives begin to suspect that Sarah is telling the truth about the rape. Further investigation into Shane's escort service reveals that he has slept with dozens of prostitutes, one of whom tells Stabler and Novak that Shane bragged to her about raping his teacher.
Novak dismisses the indictment against Sarah and charges Shane with rape. His parents retain lawyer Sophie Devere, who argues that Shane's genetic defects and lack of impulse control mean that he was unable to stop himself from raping Sarah. On cross-examination, Novak confronts Shane with the photoshopped images of Sarah, which were found on his computer, and gets him to admit that he faked evidence to incriminate her. She also succeeds in getting Shane to admit that he knows that rape is wrong but didn't think of what he did to Sarah as rape, even though she was begging him to stop. Sarah, watching Shane's testimony, is deeply affected by Shane's tearful insistence that he is sorry and asks Novak to accompany her to visit Shane in jail, where he reveals that he is on medication to reduce his sex drive so that he will not reoffend and tells her that he will stay on them if it means he never hurts anyone again. Not wanting to ruin Shane's life if there is a chance he can be helped, Sarah asks Novak not to send him to prison, and Novak works out an agreement where Shane pleads guilty to third-degree rape and serves 18 months in a secure treatment center, warning Shane that if he fails to complete the treatment he will serve seven years in prison.
Shane is sent to a private facility known as the Kastner Center. However, early in his sentence he is attacked by Earl Romaine, a guard at the center who is secretly a convicted sex offender, who breaks his arm and rapes him. Shane is hospitalized and offered $1,000,000 in return for not suing the Kastner corporation. The center is later shut down after it is proven that they covered up for Romaine, and Novak and Devere work out a new deal in which Shane is given probation and continues his treatment on an outpatient basis. As Novak leaves, she worries that she may be prosecuting Shane for another rape in two years if the treatment does not work, but Devere reassures her that she did the right thing and Shane deserves a second chance.
External links[]
- Shane Mills on the Law & Order Wiki
