Law and Order SVU

This week I watched an episode of Law and Order SVU about a judge who was shot and also lost his step daughter after she was beaten to death. In the end I learned that the judge had actually impregnated the step daughter but covered it up by saying that him and his wife adopted the child. The judge made the step daughter's life hell by sending her to a juvenile detention center to cover up the pregnancy and while she was there, she ended up writing letters to inmates who had been put in jail by her step father. She promised them sex so that they would meet with her, and when she eventually met with one, she asked him to kill her step father. It ended up that the girl was killed by her own mother who was so upset that her daughter had been impregnated by her husband.
This episode definitely challenged the idea of American family life, since it is considered disgusting and wrong to sexually abuse a child, let alone your own child. It brings up an issue that has gotten more and more attention since the outburst of new media, which is child molestation and pedophilia. Now there are shows that talk about this all the time, shows that bait men and then arrest them once they tried to engage in any type of wrongful activity with a minor. Also, the fact that the step daughter uses her father's position as a judge to find someone he convicted to kill him seems funny, because no matter what, you always go for the man above you; the convicted men may not have been the ones to shoot the judge, but they didnt hesitate to meet with his daughter.