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Ella Christiansen is the only daughter and child of Everett Drake and his first wife and the mother of two children, one of whom is deceased.

History[]

When Ella was 18, she began having a sexual relationship with her father that resulted in two pregnancies over the next two and a half years. Ella became suspected for murder in the death of her first child, a son in Newark, New Jersey. However, as no charges were brought up against her, and she alleged the baby was stillborn, the investigation was dropped.

She was tried for the abandonment and attempted murder of her second child, another son, in New York, but was acquitted by reason of mental defect and is currently institutionalized. However, after she revealed to Detective Olivia Benson that her first child in New Jersey was alive when it was born and that she did kill him, charges were filed against her for his death after her release from the psychiatric facility, though it is likely that the same verdict was to be expected. Ella refused to associate Drake with any involvement of the babies' maltreatment, which detectives suspected were to hide the affair.

Just before she was committed, her father received an injunction barring him from having any contact with Ella's second child for life. (SVU: "Taboo")

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