Francesca Jesner is an artist currently being exhibited at a gallery her art's displayed at, as well as a rape victim of Jeffrey Trapani, a cop impersonator.
History[]
Francesca was stopped for a DUI she was legitimately guilty of, then under threats of violence, Trapani beat and raped her. She tried to get Trapani to leave by pretending to faint, but he saw through it and was close to killing her if not for a passing car that scared him off while Francesca was being raped.
Francesca was confronted over her legitimate DUI, which she denied at first, but she denied it out of fearing she wouldn't have been believed. She was to be brought in to identify a suspect, patrol cop Al Marcosi, but when Trapani read the case was publicized in the paper, Francesca was kidnapped by Trapani while in cuffs, her neighbors refusing to here her screams that Trapani raped her. Masconi was released due to already being in custody at the time, and he personally tracked Trapani's license plate to have detectives be on his trail. After Francesca was taken back to Trapani's apartment and beaten and presumably raped in his bed, she was taken to his hideout to be cuffed half-naked on a mattress and nearly raped again and killed.
When Benson and Fin tracked him in their own sting,they barged in and saved Francesca as she was just about to murdered. Francesca was relieved to see them and watched Benson arrest Trapani, in front of the wall victims' divers licenses just about the mattress. Francesca was carefully walked out and immediately provided an ambulance and medical attention. (SVU: "Counterfeit")