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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 35o0f158 35 LBAGma x2 Rocchio - Direct relationship. As I said, child sexual abuse is a process. It's not an isolated event. To the extent that gift giving is being done in the service of increasing someone's dependency on you for the purposes of increasing your ability to coerce and control them, ultimately, for sexual abuse, then that gift giving would be considered part of -- to be part of the grooming process. Q. How long has the concept of grooming been in the scientific literature? A. Grooming itself has been in the scientific literature at least since the 80s. But the scientific literature that has looked at the relational components of child sexual abuse and the ways in which victims become coerced into, quote, unquote, complying with sexual activity by an adult has been well established in the study of child sexual abuse for quite some time. Q. At a high level, what are your opinions on grooming based on? A. They're based on the interaction between my education, my training, the skills I have developed over time, certainly my ongoing review of the scientific literature and my practice. Q. In your education, how did you learn about the concept of grooming? A. So again, in my education part of how I learned that, it was from my study of the process of child sexual abuse and both SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00014911