Jake Berlin is a self-confessed pedophile.
History[]
Berlin is the operator of Pediaphax, a website that posts non-sexual photographs of children to allow pedophiles to vent their sexual urges without hurting anyone. Though he is sexually attracted to prepubescent girls, he claims to have never sexually abused a child. Nevertheless, Berlin believes that the age of consent laws should be changed to allow adult-child sexual relationships.
After learning about him, Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson question Berlin about his site and about Eric Byers, a teenage pedophile who had corresponded with him. Stabler insults Berlin, who gets back at him by posting a picture of Stabler's daughter Elizabeth on the site. An enraged Stabler breaks into his apartment and beats him up, and is suspended for his actions. Berlin subsequently erases Elizabeth's photograph from his servers after Munch and Fin order him to do so. Berlin was angry and wanted to press charges on Stabler.
Berlin later brutally murders Eric after he confesses to raping a boy; he was jealous that Eric actually did something that he could only fantasize about. The Detectives eventually find Berlin's DNA after it was discovered that the suspect was diabetic. Berlin had no remorse for his actions telling Benson that he was also a pedophile like Eric but that he could never fulfill his desire and told her that there was a child out there who is now a going to have problems because of Eric while Benson says this was the fault of Berlin because they will not know him.
Berlin is sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. (SVU: "Confession")