Law & Order/Indifference

Indifference
Season 1, Episode 9
Airdate	November 27, 1990
Production Number	66207
Written by	Robert Palm
Directed by	James Quinn
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Indifference is the ninth episode of the first season of Law & Order.

Starring (Law): George Dzundza (Sergeant Max Greevy), Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan), Dann Florek (Captain Donald Cragen)

Starring (Order): Michael Moriarty (Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone), Richard Brooks (A.D.A. Paul Robinette), Steven Hill (D.A. Adam Schiff)

Guest Stars: Marcia Jean Kurtz (Carla Lowenstein), Lorraine Toussaint (Shambala Green), Louis Zorich (Judge Milton Erdheim), John Seitz (Dr. Babcock)

and David Groh (Dr. Jacob Lowenstein)

with Paul Geier (Redding), Diane Salinger (Eugenia Rawlings), Gordon Joseph Weiss (Rudy), Eugene Troobnick (Medical Examiner), Mary Joy (Dobrinski), Blanca Camacho (Miss Perez), Sarah Rowland Doroff (Didi), Brian Smiar (Judge Harper), Amanda Carlin (Doctor), John Rothman (Internist), Richard M. Davidson (Court Clerk)

Plot Overview

After a young girl is discovered by her teacher at school to have been badly beaten, the detectives discover that she is a victim of child abuse; When they investigate her family, the detectives also discover that the girl's mother is being abused by her psychiatrist father who is suspected to be responsible for the abuse (and later death) of his daughter.

Notes

Although some aspects of this story may remind you of the Lisa Steinberg case recently adjudicated in New York City, this episode and its characters are fictional and the events and actions portrayed do not reflect the actions of any principals involved in that case. In the actual case, the male defendant was convicted of manslaughter, while all charges against his female companion were dismissed. There was no evidence of her involvement in physical abuse of any child, or that any child was sexually abused by either adult