Dr. Lorraine Franchella is a former surgeon and a criminal who stole several deceased children's organs, harvesting them for sick children who needed an organ donor.
History[]
Franchella was inspired by the death of her son Benjamin, who had a congenital heart defect and died waiting for a heart transplant. She eventually performed surgery on a thirteen-year-old girl who was found unconscious after falling from bleachers at a recreation center. After the girl died, Franchella stole her organs and sent them to a man to give to a dying, sick boy. When the girl's parents discovered this, they demanded that she be criminally charged.
Franchella ultimately had her medical license revoked and was found guilty of 32 counts of second-degree forgery. However, Benson convinced ADA Peter Stone not to send Franchella to prison. But nothing good came of any of it, for eventually, the boy whose life Franchella had been trying to save instead died, due to not receiving the deceased girl's organs in time. (SVU: "Dare")