Cameron Diaz led 'cannibal cop' to dark fantasies

Emily O'Keefe, ninemsn

10:06am January 31, 2013

'Cannibal cop' Gilberto Valle.

A New York policeman dubbed the "cannibal cop" was inspired to explore dark areas of sexuality after seeing a bondage scene with Cameron Diaz in the movie "The Mask".

Gilberto Valle was a high school student when he first saw the 1994 movie scene and was so aroused by it that he began looking at pornographic internet sites and bondage images, his lawyer Julia Gatto said.
Mr Valle was arrested in October and accused of plotting to kidnap, rape, cook and eat several women, NY Daily News reports.
The police officer's fantasies of abducting and tying up women "appeared to have originated" with the “Mask” scene in which Cameron Diaz is abducted and bound, Ms Gatto said in court papers filed today.
Ms Gatto said her client had told his psychiatrist, Park Dietz, that his interest in cannibalism did not develop until he saw a roommate's pornographic DVDs while at college.
Those DVDs led him to darker websites that were his “gateway into cannibalism pornography", she said.
Mr Valle is accused of boasting on online forums about his plans to kidnap, kill and eat New York women.
But Ms Gatto will argue that he never planned to act on his fantasies and was just playing them out online.
"At trial Mr Valle will acknowledge that he has unusual, sexual fantasies which involve imagined acts of violence against women - a fetish that will be difficult for most jurors to comprehend," Ms Gatto said.
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