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--- Page 1 --- **Document Image Extraction** **Case Information:** LBAGmax2 **Case Number:** 1:20-cr-00330-PAE **Document Number:** Document 467 **Filing Date:** 11/15/21 **Page Number:** Page 50 of 158 **Case Title:** Rocchio - Direct **Text Extraction:** 1. gaining access and isolation, trust development, 2. desensitization, sexual contact and physical contact. And then 3. beneath each stage level, there is a list of the behavioral and 4. the observable and measurable behaviors where there was a high 5. level of statistical significance in agreement among varying 6. professionals as to the relevance both to the grooming process 7. and to the stages. 8. Q. I want to direct your attention to Page 4. What is this table? 9. A. So these, as I mentioned, there was an original list of 10. about 77 specific behaviors that have been found associated 11. with grooming in the literature fairly consistently. These are 12. the behaviors that were part of that original list, where 13. perhaps there were more differences of opinion, but the level 14. of agreement among the professionals in this particular study 15. did not reach the level of statistical significance. 16. Q. What is your takeaway from the study in the article? 17. A. I think this is a study that has really done a good job of 18. integrating what we know and pulling together the literature, 19. and then putting it to an empirical test. There have been 20. other ways to empirically understand and test what is referred 21. to as grooming. I think this is another way that provides some 22. validation of a proposed model of the ways in which grooming 23. works. 24. MS. POMERANTZ: You can pull that down. I'd like to 25. SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 **Footer Information:** DOJ-OGR-00007229