Gwen Savitt is the wife of Les Savitt, with who she’s adopting Debra Elkins’ son so they can have him as their child. Elkins sob storied the couple into boarding her at their brownstone, while they built a nursery and paid for her medical expenses. For the adoption itself, Elkins demanded increasing payment after payment, threatening to abort her baby if they refused. When they tried to renege, she gave them addresses for abortion clinics and pictures of dead fetuses to scare them back into the agreement.
When Elkins gave birth to a healthy baby, but hemorrhaged and went to the hospital, the Savitts were questioned when tracking her crimes, and they spoke in defense of her. Even after she was found to have conned to other couples, the Savitts perjured themselves at trial to defend her after she gave them her baby. When her boyfriend and the baby’s birth father, Stephen J. Shaw, extorted the couple again, they turned to the prosecutors for help. They were never charged with their testimony so the two con artists would go to prison with the Savitts’ testimony.
The Savitts left the city with their newly adopted son for a getaway, which the prosecution bemoaned was likely in part that Elkins would come back for a challenge of custody. (L&O: "Breeder")