Elias Kemp, Jr. is the head of a large real estate company and one of two suspects in the rape of Heba Salim.
History[]
When Kemp and Sullivan host an office party, they invite one of their employees, Fareed Salim, and his sister Heba. After Fareed leaves, Kemp and Sullivan invite Heba to the former's office, where the three of them have some drinks. Later, Salim is sexually assaulted. After the SVU detectives find evidence that Salim was assaulted in Kemp and Sullivan's office, Salim tells them how Kemp and Sullivan raped her. After they are arrested for her assault, Kemp and Sullivan say that the sex was consensual and claim that Salim is only saying she was raped so her family wouldn't be angry.
During Salim's testimony in court, Kemp's defense attorney John Buchanan tries use her original claim that she was the victim of a hate crime to discredit her. When Jimmy MacArthur publishes an article supporting her, which is read by the jury, Buchanan asks for a mistrial, claiming that the article was prejudicial to his clients. Despite A.D.A. Barba's objections, Judge Karyn Blake grants Buchanan's request. Eventually, Kemp offers Salim a settlement in which she will gain money so her brother can finish school in exchange for her not testifying again, which she takes. Kemp then takes a plea deal in which he would be put on probation and placed on the sex offender registry but would serve no prison time. He also agrees to testify against Sullivan, much to the disappointment of the SVU detectives. MacArthur later writes an article claiming Kemp raped Heba and pinned it on Sullivan. (SVU: "Criminal Stories")