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This document is a page from a court transcript dated January 15, 2025, for case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE. It captures a portion of the direct examination of a witness named Rocchio, who is discussing vulnerabilities and risk factors such as domestic violence and poverty, citing them as well-established in scientific literature.
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This document is a page from a court transcript (Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE) filed on January 15, 2025. It captures the direct examination of a witness named Rocchio, who is testifying about the factors that increase a child's risk of sexual abuse. Rocchio identifies several vulnerabilities, including prior victimization, belonging to marginalized or disabled groups, and coming from certain family structures like single-parent homes or environments where other abuse is present.
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This document is a court transcript page from a case filed on January 15, 2025, containing the direct examination of Dr. Rocchio. Dr. Rocchio testifies about the tactics of grooming for sexual abuse, explaining how offenders manipulate children to build trust and attachment. He highlights the similarity between grooming behaviors in literature and his own clinical and forensic experience, and describes the resulting psychological harm to victims, including confusion, self-blame, and shame.
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This document is a court transcript from January 15, 2025, detailing the direct examination of Dr. Rocchio. He is asked to analyze a passage from an article about the term 'grooming'. Dr. Rocchio finds the author's point confusing, agreeing that single behaviors are not sole predictors of abuse, but strongly disagreeing with the assertion that grooming cannot involve behaviors that appear normal or prosocial.
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This page is a transcript from the direct examination of Dr. Rocchio in the case United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell (Case 1:20-cr-00330). The government moves to admit 'Government Exhibit 5,' an article written by Park Dietz, which is accepted without objection. Dr. Rocchio explains that he provided this article to the government to clarify the concepts of 'grooming' and 'seduction' as established patterns in sexual abuse dynamics, noting specifically how older literature often used terminology that victim-blamed.
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This document is a page from a court transcript dated January 15, 2025, from case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE. During a direct examination, a witness named Dr. Rocchio is questioned about 'Government Exhibit 5', which he identifies as an article about the evolution of the term 'grooming' and its use by child perpetrators. Another individual, Ms. Pomerantz, is also present and speaks during the proceeding.
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This document is a page from a court transcript dated January 15, 2025, detailing the direct examination of a Dr. Rocchio. Dr. Rocchio discusses academic literature concerning 'grooming models,' referencing articles by Winters, Bennett, and O'Donohue. He explains that Winters' study attempted to statistically validate behaviors agreed upon by experts and begins to define 'error rates' in psychology using the analogy of a clinical drug trial.
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This page contains a transcript of the direct examination of Dr. Rocchio by Ms. Pomerantz in the case United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell (Case 1:20-cr-00330). Dr. Rocchio provides expert testimony refuting an older article's conclusion that there is no consensus on 'grooming,' arguing that while universal agreement on every detail is rare in social science, there is definite scientific consensus on the phenomena of grooming and child sexual abuse.
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This document is a court transcript from January 15, 2025, capturing the direct examination of a witness named Rocchio by Ms. Pomerantz. Rocchio explains the psychological concepts of validity and reliability as they apply to identifying grooming behaviors, defining validity by the consistency between victim and offender reports and reliability by the consensus among professionals. The examination concludes with Ms. Pomerantz directing the witness to a specific section of another document.
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This document is a court transcript from January 15, 2025, detailing the direct examination of a witness, Dr. Rocchio, by an attorney, Ms. Pomerantz. Dr. Rocchio is questioned about an article and states that he disagrees with its conclusions. He specifically identifies a highlighted portion of the text as being incomplete.
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This document is an excerpt from a legal transcript, dated January 15, 2025, from Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE. It features testimony, likely a direct examination by Rocchio, discussing a study on 'grooming' behaviors, including stages like gaining access, isolation, and trust development. The testimony validates the study's empirical approach to understanding and modeling the grooming process.
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This document is a court transcript from a case filed on January 15, 2025, detailing the direct examination of a witness named Rocchio. Rocchio describes a scientific study involving 18 highly qualified professionals who analyzed and rated offender behaviors to develop a model. The study resulted in identifying 43 specific behaviors categorized into a five-stage model, starting with victim selection.
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This document is a page from a court transcript (Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE) filed on January 15, 2025. An attorney, Ms. Pomerantz, questions a witness, Dr. Rocchio, about a peer-reviewed study published in October 2020 concerning the behaviors of perpetrators. Dr. Rocchio explains that the study involved a comprehensive literature review to identify common behavioral stages and strategies.
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This document is a page from a court transcript (Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE) featuring the direct examination of Dr. Rocchio by Ms. Pomerantz. Dr. Rocchio testifies about the psychological concepts of 'trauma bonding,' 'coercion,' and 'grooming' in the context of sex trafficking and pimp/sex worker relationships. The prosecution also introduces Government Exhibit 3, an academic article validating a model of child sexual abusers, authored by Georgia Winters, Elizabeth Jeglic, and Leah Kaylor.
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This document is page 46 of a court transcript filed on January 15, 2025, from Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE (United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell). The witness, Rocchio, is testifying about an academic study regarding 'coercive control' and victimization tactics. The Judge interrupts to ask specifically about the comparison between 'trauma bonding' and the relationship between a pimp and a sex worker.
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This document is page 44 of a court transcript from Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE, filed on January 15, 2025. It features the direct testimony of an expert witness, Dr. Rocchio, discussing methods of substantiating abuse cases, including legal convictions and medical evidence (specifically gonorrhea in children). During the testimony, the government introduces 'Government Exhibit 2,' an article regarding 'coercive control' authored by Jacquelynn Duron, Laura Johnson, Gretchen Hoge, and Judy Postmus, which is admitted into evidence without objection from the defense attorney, Mr. Pagliuca.
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This document is page 43 of a court transcript filed on January 15, 2025, featuring the direct examination of a witness named Rocchio. The testimony focuses on the methodology of empirical studies regarding childhood sexual abuse, specifically addressing how professionals handle varying definitions of 'grooming' by looking for commonalities and overlaps between offender admissions and victim experiences. The document bears a DOJ Bates stamp.
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This document is a page from a court transcript dated January 15, 2025, showing the direct examination of a witness named Rocchio. Rocchio describes various methodologies for conducting studies, such as interviewing offenders about their tactics, analyzing victims' experiences for treatment purposes, and surveying experts for consensus. The examination on this page concludes with a question about whether these studies use a consistent definition of 'grooming'.
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This document is an excerpt from a legal transcript, dated January 15, 2025, discussing studies related to sexual abuse. It highlights the remarkable consistency of strategies and techniques identified in such studies across various samples. The document also details the criteria used to evaluate the quality of articles and literature reviews, emphasizing peer review, study methodology, and sample selection.
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This is page 40 of a court transcript (Document 782, filed Jan 15, 2025) from Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE (United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell). The witness, Rocchio (likely Dr. Lisa Rocchio), is under direct examination discussing the differences between clinical and forensic psychology roles, specifically noting that in a clinical setting, she does not verify the truth of a victim's report via external evidence like newspaper articles. She testifies that there is 'remarkable consistency' regarding grooming tactics across her clinical work, forensic work, and scientific literature.
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This document is page 39 of a court transcript filed on January 15, 2025, from Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE (United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell). It features the direct examination of Dr. Rocchio, a forensic expert, who explains that forensic evaluations do not automatically assume a victim's report is true. Dr. Rocchio details the methodology used to objectively assess claims, including reviewing literature, administering psychological tests, and cross-referencing third-party information to identify consistencies or inconsistencies regarding alleged sexual abuse and grooming.
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This is page 38 of a court transcript from Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE (United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell), filed on January 15, 2025. The witness, Rocchio, is testifying on direct examination about their professional methodology for forensic evaluations, which includes reviewing police and medical records, conducting 8-10 hours of face-to-face evaluation, and collateral interviews. The witness specifically confirms experience evaluating issues of 'grooming' in civil cases involving allegations of childhood sexual abuse.
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This document is a page from a legal transcript, dated January 15, 2025, from a case identified as 1:20-cr-00330-PAE. It features a Q&A session, likely a deposition or testimony, where an individual (the Answerer) discusses the concept of 'grooming' in relation to child sexual abuse, its historical presence in scientific literature since the 1980s, and the foundation of their expert opinions on the subject. The discussion emphasizes grooming as a process involving increasing dependency and coercion, rather than an isolated event.
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This document is page 31 of a court transcript (Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE, filed 01/15/25) featuring the direct testimony of a witness named Rocchio. The witness defines 'grooming the environment' as a tactic where sexual offenders manipulate a child's parents or community institutions (citing the Boy Scouts as an example) to gain trust, respectability, and access to victims. The testimony outlines the psychological strategies used to disarm guardians and normalize the offender's presence.
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Page 30 of a court transcript (Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE, likely USA v. Maxwell) filed on January 15, 2025. Witness Rocchio provides expert testimony defining 'grooming' as a series of tactics used by offenders to deceive children, build trust, and eventually abuse them. The testimony details strategies such as gaining access via organizations (e.g., schools, scouts), isolating victims, and using 'courtship' behaviors like gift-giving and affection to manipulate the child.
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