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Jessica Morse (alias Margery Maddox) is a teenager who was missing for over a year once recruited into the Foundation of Knowledge Expansion, a cult led by Dr. Garret Lang.

History[]

She was under the watch of Paula Haggerty and inseminated and impregnated by Lang under the pretense of carrying a clone of a mourning couple's child to give their child back to them. She reported Samantha Tassler, another child captive, wanting to rebel against the cult, so Haggerty took her to Lang, who tortured her to death against Haggerty's wishes. Morse always believed Tassler was merely transferred but still felt guilty for tattling on her.

When Tassler was found dead and the cult brownstone where the girls were kept was tracked, Morse was spotted outside, causing the detectives to enter the brownstone with probable cause and arrest Haggerty, returning the girls to their families. Like the other living girls, Morse denied her real name and her parents due to the brainwashing and Stockholm she was under.

She eventually came to accept her family and who she was again and even testified at Lang's trial, but she still cared about Haggerty. Thus, when she had a chance to be absolved of charges by providing her testimony, Morse came by to tell Haggerty how much she cared about her too even after everything that happened. When Haggerty's testimony led to Lang's imprisonment, Morse returned home to her family. (SVU: "Perfect")

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