While this episode clearly denotes a woman being stalked and raped, this episode of SVU is absolutely horrible and shameful. The show tries to come off as the good ones in Detective Benson, but all it goes to show is not only is the system corrupt in letting the male free who raped the woman now carrying his baby in the first place, but it shows a New York City detective breaking the law and allowing a fugitive from the courts get on a private jet and leave the country with the baby of a man who is the father and has legitimate rights to see his child.
Despite the fact he raped the mother doesn't factor into the law. All this shows portrays is the corrupt aspect of American police; if they don't like the law or the rules, then they break them. The law should be the law. Police are meant to uphold the law, not make it up as they go along. It doesn't matter if they don't agree with the verdict of the courts, they took an oath to uphold the law no matter what. This is why I don't watch this show anymore. Detective Benson should have been fired/terminated and thrown in jail for all the many times she has broken the law on this TV-program.
I am a woman and I don't condone rape in any sense of the word, but I'm also a police office, and if you take an oath to uphold the law, then that's what you are sworn to do. You don't have a choice. You don't get to choose who you do and do not arrest and take to jail.