Mr. Buggesi was a pedophile who molested Maddy McCorkle, and a suspect in a school shooting.
History[]
Buggesi lives in a building not too far from Maddy McCorkle and often babysat her for her mother who worked long hours. Buggesi told her mother that he was making himself useful by helping when really he was preying on Maddy.
He threatened Maddy to allow him to molest her or he would shoot her family. Following a shooting at Maddy's school that left a boy dead and two others injured, Maddy told Dr. Huang what Buggesi said and what he had her do, mispronouncing his name as "Mr. Bug Eyes" in the process. He then replayed this to Captain Cragen and Detective Stabler. Maddy's mother properly deduced his identity and was horrified to hear this news, before realizing that it explained why he babysat her.
When Cragen and Stabler went to his apartment in order to question him, they overheard the sound of a struggle going on in the apartment before they found Maddy's uncle Patrick (who was notified by her mother) savagely beating Buggesi until breaking it up after he nearly killed him. Buggesi was rendered unconscious as a result of the attack and required medical attention. According to Patrick, Buggesi had confessed to the crime and apologized for being made that way.
Both Mr. Buggesi and Patrick were arrested, and when the detectives searched Buggesi's apartment, they only found a toy rifle that closely resembled a real firearm in the eyes of a child.
Buggesi was ultimately exonerated for committing the shooting, after it was determined that he was at the Dentist at the time. However, he still had warrants for sexual abuse in Florida and the assault on Maddy. As a result, he was extradited once he recovered from his injuries. (SVU: "Raw")