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Torture video linked to Cannibal cop case ‘used sedated women’

A sadistic torture video that the feds claim a former Stuyvesant HS librarian used as a “how-to” guide for a sick plot to rape and murder women and children featured consenting subjects being dominated while apparently “sedated,” an FBI agent testified Wednesday.

Agent Jason Floyd told a Manhattan federal jury that he and other authorities came across two copies of the 50-minute torture video, titled “Pain 35,” among roughly 170 predominantly porno VHS tapes while searching the Greenwich Village home of 62-year-old Christopher Asch.

Authorities came upon Asch and co-defendant Michael Van Hise while investigating notorious NYPD “cannibal cop” Gilberto Valle, a former police officer who was convicted last year of a plot to kidnap, cook and eat women.

Floyd said the nearly naked women in the video “appeared to be consenting” but also “sedated” as two men dressed in black tank tops and pants “tortured” them with nipple clamps, a leg spreader, riding crop, handcuffs, rope and needles inserted into one of the woman’s buttocks, breasts and genitals.

After defense lawyers objected, Manhattan federal Judge Paul Gardephe told the jurors to ignore the sedation reference because all sides agree that the women consented to be videoed.

Jurors, however, noticeably cringed later when Floyd described how the clamps had “small metal teeth” and “were also attached to the women’s vaginas — with weights attached to the clamps.”

During cross-examination, Asch’s lawyer, Brian Waller, suggested the movie is simply an S&M fetish flick. Floyd, however, fired back that the video was “a very extreme form” of S&M.

Gardephe previously viewed the movie and said he found it “very disturbing” before allowing it to be entered as evidence.

The feds had initially intended to show jurors selected screenshots from the video, but no screenshots were displayed in court.

Asch and Richard Meltz — an ex-chief of police at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Bedford, Mass., who copped a plea in January — were busted in 2013 during the feds’ probe of Van Hise, a cohort of Valle.

All three hooked up while chatting on DarkFetish — a notorious website that was a favorite of Valle’s and where users fantasize about people being tortured and killed.

Asch and Meltz in September 2012 offered to help Van Hise, of New Jersey, when he said via email that he wanted his wife, sister-in-law and sister-in-law’s kids raped and murdered, the feds say.