Sam Carson is a teenager who claimed to be sexually abused by Eddie Upshaw.
History[]
Sam claimed that Eddie sexually abused him when he was fifteen. Frightened by this, he told nobody and kept the incidents to himself. In 2025, Sam and his father Nate went to visit Eddie and found him assaulted and sodomized in his workshop. Sam initially became a suspect but was cleared when Eddie's assailant was identified as another alleged victim of Eddie's, Angela Jones. The Special Victims Unit noticed that Sam's behavior was unusual, and Bruno asked him if he was okay. Sam told Bruno everything that Eddie allegedly did to him.
Being a key witness and the only one reliable enough to secure a conviction against Eddie, Sam was asked to testify against him. He later came to the precinct to see Bruno and told him that he was too terrified and traumatized to testify against Eddie despite the detectives' best attempts to convince him. As a result of Sam being unable to testify, Eddie was ultimately not charged. (SVU: "The Accuser")