Taking Child Pornography Seriously by Improving Restitution for Victims

Taking Child Pornography Seriously by Improving Restitution for Victims

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, now in its 26th season on NBC, is known for tackling sensitive contemporary criminal justice issues. The episode titled “Downloaded Child,” which aired on April 2, 2014, not only fit that description, but was based on a real-life case in which detectives investigating a mother for alleged child endangerment discovered that she had been sexually abused as a child and that pictures and videos of her abuse were ci…