Leslie Ayvazian

The special victims unit is on the hot seat when a five-year-old sexual assault case is reopened just days before the statute of limitations ends, so Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) scramble to interview the three distinctly different victims, but are crushed when their legal maneuver to file an arrest warrant is denied. They and other SVU detectives are even more exasperated when they learn that one of the women (guest star Jenny Bacon) admits that she knows who the assailant is -- but won't tell because he now is a member of her church. Richard Belzer, Dann Florek and Michelle Hurd also star.

The shooting death of a school student by a 7-year-old classmate leads to new information on an unsolved slaying. With Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay and Richard Belzer.

A disheveled and despondent teenage girl is about to jump in front of a moving subway when two businessmen miraculously save her. It turns out she was raped and a man who followed her into the subway station, shown on surveillance video, is the prime suspect. Jackie Landricks (Rachael Bella) is taken to a hospital and her parents are brought in. Detectives Munch (Richard Belzer) and Fin (Ice-T) bring in the suspect Karl Sirett (Billy Lush). Jackie was able to identify his penis is pierced, so Detectives Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Benson (Mariska Hargitay) play a trick on him - they get Karl to drink a large quantity of soda, then Fin follows him into the men's room to make the identification. However, Jackie had been dating Karl, and even though he is 19, it was technically consensual. Meanwhile, the rape kit determines more than one man, based on the mixed sample of semen, attacked Jackie.

After the son of two popular singers dies by running into oncoming traffic, his mother (guest star Christine Andreas) claims that her son was fleeing from a child molester. But when forensics uncovers signs of emotional trauma in the boy, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) suspect that the hands-off approach to parenting employed by the two touring pop stars may have taken a fatal toll on their son -- and may be responsible for their daughter Ashley's (guest star Hayden Panettiere) escalating self-destructive behavior as well.

When a young wife is found dead after what appears to have been an auto-erotic encounter, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) find that the deceased and a group of her girlfriends had recently been accused of raping a male stripper (guest star Pete Starrett).

When legal aid striker Frank Dresner (guest star Justin Hagan) is killed outside the courthouse, the sand in Dresner's wounds lead Detectives Lupo (Jeremy Sisto) and Bernard (Anthony Anderson) to investigate a greensman at a local golf course. Greensman Ted Sanderson (guest star Brad William Henke), who had already served nine years in prison for the murder of his wife, claims he is innocent once again. Due to the legal aid strike and the shortage of defense attorneys, ADA Connie Rubirosa is ordered to represent the defendant, pitting Rubirosa and Cutter against one another. Also starring: Sam Waterston and S. Epatha Merkerson.