Actually.. this was the first episode of my encounterment with Law & Order: SVU
It's about a mother, who's recently lost both husband and daughter...
somehow found out that her previos fertility doctor, stole her egg and sell it to another woman...
still having the pain of loosing loved ones, and suddenly found another living daughter in the other side of the town...
she was trying very hard to claim custody of the newly found daughter..
and of course, this stirred up the other family... who's been living peacefully and happily together...
the mother, having gone crazy all over about this one remaining daughter, insisted on not giving it up..
......
finally it came to court, and the DA who was on this case, didn't know what to do... as, even though the birth mother/family will win the case, but the biological mother will always come to disturb and family and not leave them in peace...
but then... ah.. the part that I liked, (again)
while the DA was confused and had lost her direciton, one of the detective on this case, Det. Elliot Stabler came to talk to her..
he did admit that, he knew how the biological mother feel, especially after she's lost all her close family members... and if he knows that, he also have a child somewhere on the other side of the town, he'll fight his way to it...
after a quiet while, he said to the DA:"King Solomon said, "Bring me a sword. Divide the living child in two. Give half to one mother, half to the other."
then, still confused, the DA said:"Except I can't split the baby. "
but then... Det. Stabler replied:"Solomon didn't have to. "
(I have quoted the Solomon story before, in one of my review.. 1 King 3:16-28)
In the end.. in the courtroom..
the DA did this 'trick', she made the little girl, 6 years old, to testify... asked her how she felt about the biological mother (as she's been kidnapped by her and spent a few days together) and asked if she wants to leave her birth mother and live with her biological mother... (well... of course, the little girl was not explained or mentioned with the words "biological mother" and "birth mother")
then, the girl start crying sorrowfully.. saying that, she doesn't dislike her (the biological mother) but why would she have to leave her own mother... and couldn't stop crying...
then!!! the biological mother, who's been trying to hard to fight for her... stood up, crying, told everybody in the courtroom to stop doing that to her little girl and that she wouldn't want to go through all these to fight for her anymore.....
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