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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 397-1 960 Filed 10/29/21 N. Bennett and W. O’Donobue TABLE 1 General Definitions of Grooming Author(s) Definition of Grooming (taken directly from reference) Sgroi (1982) Salter (1995) Howitt (1995) Leberg (1997) Gallagher (1999) Brackenridge (2001) Gillespie (2002) Berson (2003) O’Connell (2003) Spiegel (2003) Craven, Brown, and Gilchrist (2006) Knoll (2010) “How does [the perpetrator] get the child to participate in some type of sexual behavior? Usually in a low-key, nonforcible fashion, possibly by presenting the activity as a game or something that is ‘special’ and fun. This always entails misrepresentation of moral standards, either verbally or implicitly... . Perhaps rewards or bribes will be offered.” “The establishment (and eventual betrayal) of affection and trust occupies a central role in the child molester’s interactions with children. The grooming process itself often seems similar from offender to offender, argely because it takes little to discover that emotional seduction is the most effective way to manipulate children.” “The steps taken by paedophiles to ‘entrap’ their victims and is in some ways analogous to adult courtship.” “The offender plans to make the victim less likely to resist, to make others unaware of what he is doing, or even to make them likely to help him, without their knowledge, to molest a child.” “Entrapment involves the use of an array of material, illicit and emotional ‘inducements’ to draw children into abusive situations and increases heir difficulty in disclosing.” “The process by which a perpetrator isolates and prepares an intended victim.” “The process by which a child is befriended by a would-be abuser in an attempt to gain the child’s confidence and trust, enabling them to get he child to acquiesce to abusive activity. It is frequently a pre-requisite for an abuser to gain access to a child.” “Grooming involves a clever process of manipulation, typically initiated hrough a nonsexual approach, which is designed to entice a victim into a sexual encounter (Brown, 2001). The inhibitions of a child are owered through active engagement, desensitization, power and control. It is often characterized as a seduction, involving a slow and gradual process of learning about a child and building trust. This also contributes to the difficulty in detecting the activity. Grooming is also a deceptive process in which a child is unprepared to interpret cues which signal danger of risk. Predators are skilled at gaining the trust of a child before luring them into interactions. The process of grooming through the formation of a close bond creates a victim who is more likely to comply with sexual advances.” “A course of conduct enacted by a suspected paedophile, which would give a reasonable person cause for concern that any meeting with a hild arising from the conduct would be for unlawful purposes.” “Subjection is the process of predisposing a boy to sexual abuse by means of subtle or blatant interactions that lead to boundary diffusion and role confusion.” “A process by which a person prepares a child, significant adults and the environment for the abuse of this child. Specific goals include gaining access to the child, gaining the child’s compliance and maintaining the child’s secrecy to avoid disclosure. This process serves to strengthen the offender's abusive pattern, as it may be used as a means of justifying or denying their actions.” “The process by which sex offenders carefully initiate and maintain sexually abusive relationships with children. Grooming is a conscious, deliberate, and carefully orchestrated approach used by the offender. The goal of grooming is to permit a sexual encounter and keep it a secret.” ie) Page 5 of 43 DOJ-OGR- 00005872