Selling Babies - Law & Order 

"I make babies, I'm good at it. So what if there are people willing to pay me for it?" Then become a surrogate, not a criminal.

Look I’m sorry she was being used but that doesn’t give her the right to hurt these people, she’s not some poor innocent little girl she’s a woman who’s as willing to put a baby’s life at risk to make money and she didn’t care how many hearts she broke to do it.

I have a close friend who was scammed with an adoption scheme. The baby's biological mother was a young girl in a tough situation that just wanted a good home for her child. She visited them a couple times and their other children got so excited when she let them touch her belly because they wanted to meet their little sister. This family paid all her medical expenses as well as living costs during the pregnancy. When the baby tragically died the week it was born, they covered the funeral costs. They mourned for their lost child and had a picture of her framed as a keepsake. One of their friends was a photographer, and noticed that the color in the picture was off. A dead baby should look gray or blue, and the one in the picture looked rosy. They started investigating, and it turns out the baby in the picture was ALIVE. However, it was not their baby, it was a random baby picture this woman routinely used in her scam. She was never even pregnant to begin with. The baby bump was fake, the pictures were fake, and she turned out to be much older than she claimed. They started doing background research on her and found 2 other families she had done this to. They were looking for more, and last I heard were trying to pursue legal action. The thing about the situation that makes me feel sick is that this woman has hurt not only them, but also another real child and mother in need of help.

"Objection." "Sustained." Witness: _continues talking even though he doesn't need to_

How the boyfriend openly says he wanted nothing to do with kids yet sounds so outraged at what this woman did with her baby, really drives home how callous and cruel the whole scam was... even the involved partner thought so.

This woman was in 9 different episodes of the law and order franchise! Amazing!!! She managed to act 9 different people in the same series 👏👏👏

Man I use to love svu more than the original but as I started watching the original from the beginning, I have love for both shows.

Lawyers are always so cocky with STone until he flips the cards and they are all begging for a deal. Priceless

"you're entitled to a lawyer sir". I love how Stone threw that one in there in the middle of arguing lol

I hate the 'they used me first so that means I'm the victim no matter what I do' argument. You stopped being a victim when you made the choice to make that your profession. You have something you sell/bid, and they buy it from you. You don't emotionally torture and extort people on some bullshit like that

Nobody and I mean nobody delivers a sarcastic "Sir" like Ben Stone.

Holy moly! I feel sorry for the families that went through this! I feel worse for that poor child! I know it’s fictional, but it shook me!

10,000 to adopt a kid??? That's super cheap. Heck a single round of IVF is usually 12,000 and up and most adoptions in the US are upwards of 43,000.

Can we just take a sec to appreciate the defence? One moment she was saying not to believe his testimony over the client, next breeder lady runs her mouth, and the defence was so disturbed she straight up asked for plea bargain

Aunt Lydia 😯 She's been baby snatching from the beginning!

Always LOVED the actress playing Debbie in this. So cold and calculating. i was surprised to see she acted very little. I bet she nailed her screen test. If indeed she took one.

I feel sorry for the families who go through this, and I feel no sympathy for Debby.

Lmao the lawyer's expression after she's done her rant

That's one sick greedy piece of work

Thank you for the episode name, number and season in the description. The Law & Order : SVU is notoriously bad for not doing that. It's like shooting fish in a barrel trying to figure out which episode it is when you want to watch it.

The baby daddy became a Texas Ranger 🙂👈🏾

I’m not 100% sure but I’m pretty confident the woman on that witness stand is Ann Dowd A.k.a. aunt Lydia from the handmaid‘s tale, and Patty from the leftovers.

I really liked Steven’s actor here. He nails the character perfectly.

I totally loved it when he looked at her and said you are such a bitc.! Awesome!

OH MY GOD! Its Aunt Lydia from The Handmaid's Tale

Ann Dowd basically auditioning for Aunt Lydia so many years ago.

Law & Order sure knew what they were doing when they wrote these masterclass episodes.

Being used? Fuck if I was being paid for a baby I didn’t want I’d go for the best home possible, I’d tell them to love him or her as if it came from their own loins. A baby deserves love not a price tag.

That man broke so easy 😭

I love this show, but how are so many lawyers walking through the well without getting tackled by a bailiff? 😂

You little sugar honey ice tea there are people in this world who want to have children

One of my favorite L&O moments is from this episode, I hope it gets posted.

OMG! I just realized that is Ann Dowd! WOW!

Ann Dowd and Michael Moriarty were the parents in Shiloh!!!

I can only watch show clips. If this case was real-life entirely, which couple/person would be more likely to have custody, or care for, the baby? How would any applicable 1994 NY law factor in to this case? What about now? Who do you think should have gotten the baby? Where did the baby end up going - to the Savitt's?

I still have a low key crush on the baby daddy...

$10,000 is nothing. The average payment is between $65,000-$100,00 plus medical bills and any necessities that the mother needs.

Ann Dodd is an amazing actress!

I keep getting a ton of law and order recs lol

Who is the actor who plays the guy at 6:27 I’ve seen him before but I can’t remember where and from what

Aunt lydia? Is that you????

This was a great episode.

4:04 - I'm so annoyed with the messy books and the scotch IN THE BOOKCASE. No respectable lawyer would have an office like that. SMH

She should have just gotten into surrogacy.

Aunt Lydia has always been after those babies 😂

The lady low key sounds like siri😂😂

Whose to say that the woman who paid the money is a fit mother ? Just because someone has money does not make them moral or sane ! Trust me !

Oh wow! It is a very young Aunt Lydia from Handmaids as one of the prospective adoptive moms! !

That's why you write up a contrat

Does anyone know where full episodes of Law and Order stream? I can only find SVU

I remember this episode. This does actually happen. Sadly, greed brings out the worst in many.

In high school my law teacher would play an episode of this Law and Order every Friday but I could sleep cause I already watched them ALL of them 🤣🤣🤣😴these older seasons before SVU were great

Who acted as Debbie Alkins (or Alkons, I don’t know) in this episode?

The epilogue of this episode is good

.... Whert!? She's cowlin' him Stoopid! 🤷‍♂️

BAHAHAHA!!! I said the title and the theme into thing went off 😂😂 TIMINGG!!!

Aunt lydia is always there when it concerned a baby.

For everyone here who is interested in child welfare, please consider adopting older children too.

Someone holding a human hostage and terrorizing the buyers......

Uncle Juniors doctor Furio slap was buying babies back in the day

Her name is Debbie. No longer shocked lol

Heyyyy! It’s Ranger Gage from Walker Texas Ranger!!! 😃

"What are we talking about?"

Oh my god, the first defendant/witness is Ann Dowd! I didn’t know she was in older episodes too!

Can someone tell me how this episode ended? I tried looking for a summary.

It's weird seeing Judson Mills with long hair. He probably grew it out for the episode.

So much BPD!

She was out to make the people pay and she wasn't the only one she was having over

Fun note the acter that plays Mr Ben stone and the actress that plays Dorothy would go on to be in a movie called Shiloh years later they play husband and wife

sadly, there are women like her in the world who would do this kind of garbage. that mother might have had a bad experience, but what she did was evil. selling babies like slavery, torturing and forcing parents like their indentured servants, and manipulating the police like they are her little employees. that is messed up.

Classics......

No self pity on with someone that have no remorse

I have decided to study and become a lawyer like my grandfather.

Aunt Lydia on the stand finally lol.

What she did was absolutely wrong, but I still feel for her. I mean she was also right in that those people were only nice bc they were using her.

The Acting in SVU Is top-tier

Why does Debbie sound like Debbie out of the Adams family festers wife 😂

“We were struggling as it was”….so you decided to adopt a child ? With no money? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

They would have to check there DNA

I wonder when she got out of prison did she go right back to brokering babies. She was still young. 4 years was her minimum sentence. Seems possible.

Aunt Lydia!

is this from a movie? if yes, please say the name of the movie

Sooo... I'm never going to Poughkeepsie.

This show is based on real life. CSI with the FBI are also based on real happenings, which were in the news papers.

HOLY SMOKES!! 😨😨😨😨

This same actress appeared in Law and Order and Law and Order SVU at least 3 times. As baby kidnapper, a pediatrician oncologist and a nice lady in child's clinic

That guy with the long hair played gage on Walker Texas Ranger

Let the truth be revealed...

Anne Dowd!!!

What episode is this?

Mrs Baxter is that actress from Handmaiden & other movies

Debby makes me fucking sick. from one small stand point I've thought of being a surrogate myself a couple years ago but, what she did was beyond sick--that is an innocent child's life she's been playing with and dangling around as bait to bleed and torture those people sifting for the highest bidder!! part of me is sorry for her previous experience and yes the way the system works is deplorable and unjust at times but, that still doesn't grant her any rights to commit numerous extortions between the three families or absolve her of deliberate child endangerment and body trafficing of an infant.

5:58 A blood test. How quaint.

Based on real stories

We are the world we are the future 🎶

If puppy mills are wrong, what about human mills?

Is that Allanis Morrissette?

BF looks like he'd be good with the impregnating.

Debbie Elkins shouldn't have pissed off Aunt Lydia...

people like that who sells their babies for their selfish reasons should be in jail long enough so she cannot bear any more children when she goes out. otherwise, she will repeat the process.