The trial has begun for officer Gilberto Valle, who is charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Source: AAP
SOME prospective jurors in the conspiracy trial of a police officer accused of plotting to kill and eat women say they are so disturbed at a judge's description of the case, they cannot be fair.
"I am shaking just writing," one potential juror wrote on Friday.
"I feel physically ill," said another.
"Already sick to stomach," said a third.
"As a woman, it literally makes my skin crawl," said one more, who wrote that two photographs and a cartoon of women being abused were "extremely offensive" and "any further evidence along these lines will only make me angry".
It was the first day of trial for officer Gilberto Valle, who is charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping and with unauthorised access to a federal database.
The four possible jurors were among 29 dismissed from a group of 90 who filled out a questionnaire, along with another person who said the evidence "would give me nightmares".
Some written responses were read aloud by US District Judge Paul G Gardephe as lawyers argued which would-be jurors should be brought back on Monday for oral questions.
The judge had addressed them from a lectern about the charges at the start of the day to emphasise the importance of the 10 questions they were answering.
Many jurors were upset at an exhibit attached to the questionnaires that included staged internet colour photographs of a nude woman hogtied on a roasting tray with an apple in her mouth and another naked woman tied horizontally to a pole over an open fire. A cartoon of a bound naked woman boiling in a glass pot also was included.
The judge had warned the potential jurors the trial would feature emails and instant messages in which Valle discussed in great detail the kidnapping, raping, torturing, murdering and cannibalising of certain women.
He said the defence would argue that Valle's communications "were all sexual fantasy and imaginary role-play and that he never intended to kidnap, rape, torture, murder or eat any woman".
Many of Valle's communications occurred on fetish websites on which people discuss, view and post images and videos of deviant conduct, including necrophilia, sexual asphyxiation, genital mutilation, rape fantasies, bondage and various forms of sadomasochism, the judge said.
"You will likely see images from these websites similar to the images attached ... to this questionnaire," he said.
Valle, 28, has been jailed without bail since his arrest. Prosecutors say he conspired with three others to kidnap eight "specific and identified women".
A New Jersey man charged in the case will be tried separately.
Opening statements in Valle's trial are set for February 25.
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