The Worst Criminal In Law & Order: SVU Season 12

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Sterling Beaumon's Hunter Mazelon was a young offender who was difficult to fully hate

Hunter Mazelon is a 14-year-old serial rapist who's suspected in several heinous crimes. The episode begins when a young woman returns home to her apartment to find a naked Hunter in her bedroom, and it's suspected that he's lying in wait to sexually assault her. Complicating matters is the fact that his mother, played by Rita Wilson, is happy to provide excuses for her son–making it even more difficult to prosecute him.

As a character, Hunter is highly manipulative. Shortly after his initial arrest, he falsely accuses Stabler (Christopher Meloni) of molesting him, which enables his mother to take out a restraining order against him.

The only mitigating circumstance regarding Hunter is the fact that he was once sexually abused as a child by his babysitter. As the members of the Special Victims Unit pursue their case against him, Hunter murders his ex-babysitter in revenge. As he's arrested, he promises that his criminal days are behind him.

Sterling Beaumon summed up Hunter Mazelon in an interview.

"This kid's just very troubled and is more of a badass than anything else," he told Smashing Interviews. "He has a drinking problem because he's very troubled. This kid has more problems than just being psychotic."

Hunter Mazelon might have been abused in the past, but that makes him no less dangerous in the present.