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‘Cannibal cop’ planned to kidnap, eat woman for Thanksgiving: prosecutor

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Forget white meat or dark meat — he wanted “girl meat” for Thanksgiving.

Gilberto Valle, the NYPD officer busted by the feds as an alleged cannibal wannabe, saw his alleged holiday hopes dashed yesterday when prosecutors said he’d planned to dine on human flesh tomorrow.

Manhattan federal prosecutor Hadassa Waxman read aloud in court a transcript from a Feb. 9 Internet chat in which she said Valle, 28, told an unidentified man that turkey alone wouldn’t satisfy his hunger.

Waxman said the discussion went like this:

Valle: “I’m planning on getting some girl meat.”

Alleged co-conspirator: “Really? Tell me more.”

Valle: “This November, for Thanksgiving. It’s a long way off, but I’m getting the plan in motion now. She’s not a volunteer. She has to be abducted. I know where she lives. I will grab her from her house.”

Public defender Julia Gatto argued that Valle’s online chats were only “sick, twisted” sexual fantasies he shared on the Web with like-minded fetishists.

Gatto said her own, reluctant investigation into her client’s “subculture” — which she likened to “Star Trek geeks and science-fiction movie guys who dress up and go to conventions” — had apparently uncovered the site Valle frequented.

“All over the Web site, it says: No matter how real this sounds, this is all fantasy,” she insisted.

She also noted that despite Valle’s months of chatting, “there’s nothing the government can point to outside the computer.”

Gatto noted that a shrink who examined Valle concluded he wasn’t a danger. Waxman, however, said an FBI expert at the bureau’s headquarters in Quantico, Va., had reviewed Valle’s case and concluded that “he’s not fantasizing” and would pursue his plans if left on the street.

“The fact that nothing happened is really extraordinarily fortunate,” the prosecutor said.

Judge Paul Gardephe ruled that a defense plan to have Valle freed on bail to his mom’s home with a GPS ankle would neither guarantee the safety of the community nor eliminate the risk he might flee.

“There has been nothing rational about this case,” Gardephe said. “It is depraved, bizarre, aberrational and, as of now, entirely unexplained, particularly for someone who is a law-enforcement officer.”

At the request of Gatto, Gardephe scheduled Valle’s trial for Jan. 22.

Gatto said that because he’s a cop, Valle is being held in solitary confinement in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan.

If convicted of kidnapping conspiracy, he would face a maximum of life in prison.