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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 782 Filed 01/15/25 Page 77 of 158 77 LBAAMAX3ps Rocchio - Direct THE COURT: So in a sense what the field, the scientific field tell us is that there are scenarios that help create an aura of trust and respectability, and then one could, using some common sense, figure out what specific examples might fall within that? THE WITNESS: Sure. Or there is literature to say, you know, where, for example, do we find that perpetrators access victims? And so we know that they end up in leadership roles in various kinds of child organizations -- counselors, schools, Boy Scouts, church. So -- THE COURT: But those phenomena are discussed in the literature. THE WITNESS: Those phenomena are discussed in the literature. THE COURT: OK. Thank you. Go ahead. MS. POMERANTZ: Thank you. Q. We've been talking about whether grooming only be done for the benefit of the person doing the grooming. What if anything in scientific literature addresses the concept of grooming not having to be done for the benefit of the person doing the grooming? A. So the article that we had spoken about earlier, looking at dynamics of coercive control, which refer to some of the strategies and dynamics that commonly occur in the context of grooming, we can see that coercive control, which are SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300