Ignatius Petty is a corrupt child trafficker and abuser between impoverished and dangerous households for the purpose of monetary gain. Alma Cordoza is Petty's accomplice, responsible for watching over and transporting the children, brutalizing them in ways such as handcuffing them to seats when being moved, and imprisoning them in squalid, filthy abandoned buildings missing many coding standards.
Cordoza hired Frank Hovis to transport Eden and Marc, but swerving to avoid being hit by a truck plunged Hovis' van off a bridge into the river below. Cordoza swam out for her own sake, and Hovis released the kids from the restraints before swimming up with them, running after leaving them on the side of the rode.
Petty was tracked and questioned, denying all guilty, threatening to sue over the police raiding one of his buildings, and refusing to release records without a warrant. Petty was caught when his call to Cordoza was tracked, and she gave Petty up when she was arrested.
Petty was found guilty of fraud, child abuse and trafficking, and accessory to attempted murder and was imprisoned for life. (SVU: "Cage")