Gilberto Valle
New York - An FBI agent says a New York police officer accused of conspiring with others on the Internet to kill and eat women was cooperative and willing to help the agency catch dangerous people on the Internet when he was arrested in October.
Agent Anthony Foto told a Manhattan federal court jury Friday that Officer Gilberto Valle said he was willing to help the FBI distinguish between those individuals on a sexual fetish web site who were real threats and those only involved in role play.
Valle, who has been jailed without bail since his arrest, has maintained throughout that he was only engaging in kinky Internet fantasies and was not going to act on them.
Foto said the officer admitted that his online passion had consumed him, ruining his personal life.
Valle "claimed he did not enjoy it and he did not know why he was doing it," the agent said.
Under interrogation, Valle lamented that his chats and emails with others on the Internet about cannibalism were leaving him exhausted and uninterested in sex with his wife.
Foto testified Valle acknowledged that his fetish of kidnapping, killing and eating women wasn't satisfying and he "claimed he would not have gone through with it."
The testimony came as the government winds down its case against the 28-year-old officer.
The trial's first week concluded on Friday afternoon. Jurors were due back on Monday.