KEN LANNING
Background


Hebephilia - interest in adolescent girls Preferential sex offender

Psychopath - felt like doing it and you did it

- his own moral code, refuses to follow any other rules

What is achild?

Inexperienced, naive, sexually naive girls Control + manipulate having money paying them adds to control

Grooming and seduction

- gain cooperation of child victim

- identify certain girls who are appealing to you.

- assess and evaluate the girl

- have one of your girls recruit more girls

- attention, affection, kindness

- key to grooming children is giving gifts, paying money

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How much is pay?

Defense attorney

State v. Gervasio Torres, Jr.

15th Dist.

Victims tend not to disclose anything that is not consistent with common belief about child molestation - victim is innocent who is forced or brainwashed by the stranger-predator

Gradually, over time they will disclose the full story.

- needs to develop confidence in the interviewer

They are confronted with doing something that you were not supposed to do

-you lie, deny, misin

Reason that this is a crime is not ble children are innocent, it is because they are not fully developed mentally/emotionally -being a teenager is about doing dumb stupid things

Compliant child victims - not forced

- they deny, then minimize quality and quantity

of acts.

- they will spin the story in the best light for them

Totality of evidence lying may be evidence that the children actually were molested - story evolves as they become more comfortable

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Emphasise JE's active role in the manipulations.

-girls weren't perfect, but JE took advantage of them

Using an expert witness to educate the jury that children can't consent