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| “ | I used her up and I bled her dry. Do you want to hear how she screamed? How she begged for her mommy? She was a slut, that one, a real little whore! | „ |
| ~ Victor Paul Gitano bragging about killing a child. |
Victor Paul Gitano is the main antagonist in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Fault". He is a sex offender who kidnaps two children after murdering their parents and sister.
He was portrayed by Lou Diamond Phillips.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Born July 10, 1963, Gitano grew up to become a sadistic pedophile who derived pleasure from raping and torturing children of both sexes. As a teenager, he sexually assaulted more than a dozen random boys and girls.
Gitano was arrested in 1987 for kidnapping, raping, and torturing a 12-year-old boy for eight hours, during which time he burned him with cigarettes, cut him with a hunting knife, and sodomized him. He served 18 years in prison and was registered as a sex offender. The boy was so psychologically scarred by Gitano's cruelty that he became agoraphobic.
While in prison, Gitano reluctantly underwent sex offender therapy with Dr. Paula Greenfield for three years, but she deemed him too manipulative and narcissistic to ever really change. She also noted that Gitano was a pathological liar and told her many conflicting stories about his early life. He also made no effort to stop his behavior and expressed desire to continue his spree of sadistic rape. Nevertheless, he did not fit the criteria for civil commitment, so he was released after he served his sentence.
Soon afterward, however, he was arrested for molesting a nine-year-old girl in Pennsylvania, but he managed to jump bail and travel to New York City.
"Fault"[]
The NYPD's Special Victims Unit becomes aware of Gitano when he exposes himself to a playground full of children, including a young girl named Rebecca Clifford. One of the children tells the school's art teacher about him and she pulls Rebecca away and scares Gitano off. The children are sent home from school early, and Gitano follows Rebecca home.
Facing a life sentence as a repeat offender, Gitano decides to fulfill a long-held fantasy of kidnapping two children and taking them on a cross-country trip, during which he would rape, torture, and eventually kill them. To that end, he stalks the Clifford family and breaks into their house, where he kills Lyla Clifford, her husband Simon, and Lyla's teenage daughter Amy, and kidnaps her younger children, Rebecca and Ryan.
SVU Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler track Gitano to a bus station, but he kills Ryan and superficially cuts Benson's neck, using the distraction to escape with Rebecca. He then drops in on an old acquaintance from his Air Force service to borrow money, and goes out on the road again with Rebecca as a captive.
Benson and Stabler eventually find Gitano at an abandoned military base, where he ambushes Stabler and holds him at gunpoint. Benson tries to talk Gitano into letting Stabler go, but Gitano refuses, taunting her by saying he had killed Rebecca and was now going to kill Stabler. When Benson tells him that backup is on the way and he has no chance of escape, Gitano panics and says Rebecca is still alive, trying to bargain with her life. Seconds later, an NYPD sniper shoots Gitano in the face, killing him. Benson and Stabler then find Rebecca and discover, much to their relief, that Gitano had not had time to rape her.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Gitano is loosely based upon the late serial killer and child molester Joseph Edward Duncan III.
