NYPD ‘cannibal cop’ to walk free after judge overturns conviction
A former New York Police Department officer convicted of planning to kidnap and rape women before killing and eating them is set to go free after a federal judge overturned his conviction.
According to Reuters, the so-called “Cannibal Cop” Gilberto Valle was acquitted by US District Judge Paul Gardephe on Monday. Valle has been in prison since he was arrested in 2012, and potentially faced life behind bars on kidnapping conspiracy charges.
In his opinion, Judge Gardephe stated that the evidence used to originally convict Valle did not sufficiently prove that the former officer acted on what his attorneys said were sexual, cannibalistic fantasies involving women he never met, as well as his wife.
“The evidentiary record is such that it is more likely than not the case that all of Valle’s Internet communications about kidnapping are fantasy role-play,” the judge wrote.
Gardephe did uphold Valle’s conviction on a less serious charge, which alleged that he used the NYPD’s federal database to collect information on various women he intended to target. That conviction carried a sentence of up to one year in prison, but since Valle has been in jail since 2012, he can be set free as early as Tuesday.
Although prosecutors originally argued that Valle’s access of the NYPD database signaled that the former officer was taking steps to carry out his lurid plan – they also claimed he had searched the internet in order to learn about using chloroform to knock someone unconscious.
“Once the lies and the fantastical elements are stripped away, what is left are deeply disturbed misogynistic chats and emails written by an individual obsessed with imagining women he knows suffering horrific sex-related pain, terror and degradation,” the judge wrote
I seriously would like to know how this judge is still sitting on the bench.
Members of the NYPD, "serving and protecting" the public. Sha right! Smh
Meanwhile, somewhere in hell, Jeffrey Dalhmer & Osama bin Laden were overheard overheard weighing in the matter
Overheard in Alpha Centauri...
"To Protect and Serve"
More like to protect their own and serve ...you for dinner!Someone should have told him that if he wanted to eat pussy, ...he was going about it all wrong.
And that the phrase "Crack open a cold one" is a reference to beer, not cadavers!
Serial Killers - Do you want a very long and productive career? Are you tried of hiding and lurking in the shadows? Become a cop, You get a government issued gun, a car, and you can literally get away with murder. Then draw a pension when its all over!
I'm sorry... sometimes gallows humour is all ya got left.
