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This document is page 2 of an exhibit filed on October 29, 2021, in the case United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell (Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE). It contains the first page of an academic article titled 'The Construct of Grooming in Child Sexual Abuse: Conceptual and Measurement Issues' published in the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse in 2014. The text defines grooming as a 'seduction stage' used to gain access to victims and discusses the need for a scientific definition of the term. It bears a Department of Justice Bates stamp (DOJ-OGR-00005869).