Susan Ross was the mother of Tommy and Lisa Ross.
History[]
In 2003, while on safari in Kenya, the Jeep her family was using flipped over, Susan's husband Ed was killed, Tommy survived, but the blood transfusion that saved Susan's life was tainted with HIV. On June 13, 2004, she gave birth to her daughter Lisa. She used to be an English teacher in Stamford, Connecticut, but when it was discovered in 2005 by the school that Susan was HIV-positive along with a complete refusal to take medication, being a devoted believer that HIV doesn't cause AIDS, after infecting her colleague and ex-boyfriend Jack Lufton, the school paid her a large amount of money so she wouldn't sue the school for wrongful dismissal. She ended up becoming a stay-at-home mother living off of the compensation.
Lisa died of pneumocystis pneumonia on August 8, 2008, after Susan failed to provide her with any treatment when she got sick with an sore throat. Dr. Gideon Hutton did nothing to treat Lisa as well, writing her infection off as a cold. While testifying in court, Susan suffered from a seizure induced by toxoplasmosis, a parasitic brain disease that people with AIDS get, and later died from the complications, not before revealing there were others Hutton killed. It was later revealed that Susan tested HIV-positive a decade before Lisa was born and later passed on the disease to her son Tommy. (SVU: "Retro")