Law & Order Episode Similar to Holly Ashcraft Case

Update: The show airs at 9:00 p.m., Tuesday  the 17th, on KY3 in Springfield. 

USC's Daily Trojan says that an upcoming episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will bear a striking resemblance to the case of USC junior Holly Ashcroft, who is charged with the murder of her newborn.

The episode sees a "well-to-do college coed" brought to trial after a newborn baby boy is found in the trash.

Ashcraft was arrested after a newborn was found in a dumpster. The Los Angeles Times reported that she was attending USC on a full-tuition scholarship.

In the "Law and Order: SVU" episode, the girl admits to detectives "that she had been raped and was unaware that she had been pregnant prior to the birth," according to the episode description.

Many of Ashcraft's friends have said that they couldn't tell she was pregnant.

The summary goes on to say, "The girl soon loses sympathy when it is also discovered that the girl had been connected to another abandoned newborn a year later, but was never arrested."

Law enforcement sources have confirmed that Ashcraft was investigated but never charged in April 2004 for a similar crime.

The episode airs on January 17th.

Earlier posts on Holly Ashcraft: Holly Aschraft Strikes Again?; Holly Ashcraft's Dad Shocked