Stephen Talmadge (alias Tyler Blake) is the son of Jennifer Talmadge and Robert Cook.
History[]
His mother had a brief relationship with his father Robert, resulting in his birth. Robert's future wife Linda murdered Stephen's mother and put him on the black market. For years, Robert was unaware that he had fathered another son.
His maternal grandparents wanted NYPD to search for him but they could never locate him because Stephen, renamed Tyler Blake, was adopted into a good family and spent his whole life with them until he was found by SVU detectives, led by Captain Donald Cragen, who had investigated his mother's murder twelve years before. It was there that he overheard that he was adopted but he did not want to leave the Blakes because they were his only known family.
Once he learned of Stephen's existence, Robert petitioned for custody. Stephen was distraught by the situation but was pleased to meet his maternal grandparents. ADA Cabot, sympathetic to Stephen's situation, acted as his lawyer in an attempt to help Stephen stay with his adopted family. Nevertheless, the judge granted Robert custody, but the judge asked for arrangements to be made so that Stephen could also spend time with his grandparents and adopted parents, something he seemed willing to do. (SVU: "Stolen")