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a No Go wd on OY ~] (ee) Ke) a © a — No (ee) = ws On a OY a ~] a co a Ke) 20 21 22 ae 24 ae Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 782 Filed 01/15/25 Page 31o0f158 31 LBAGma x2 Rocchio - Direct offender is trying to win over the trust and affection of the child. Then there's another stage where the child is gradually exposed to greater levels of physical touch and sexual content and material that slowly escalates over time, and then strategies that keep the relationship going and help to prevent exposure. Q. Based on your experience, research and training are you familiar with the term grooming the environment? A. Iam. Q. What is grooming the environment? A. It's a term that applies to commonly recognized phenomenon and strategies, tactics, modus operandi used by perpetrators in the service of getting them access to victims and building that relationship of trust. So in addition to manipulating the child, they'll manipulate individuals or institutions in that child's life so that they're able to have greater access. So they might, for example, befriend a child's parent and hold themselves out as a trustworthy person who is going to help, say, a single mom and he'll serve as a father figure to the kid. Or they might groom an institution, they might work their way up through the boy scouts, for example, and become a leader there, become a pillar in the community to give them an air of respectability, disarming, gaining trust. Q. Are you familiar with the term attachment? A. I am. SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00014907