  Alleged 'cannibal cop' Gilberto Valle trial: Jurors hear
closing arguments  Gilberto Valle, a six-year veteran of the New
Prosecutors called accused "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle a
"sexually sadistic" man who crossed over from fantasy to
reality, while the defense said he was being persecuted for
"ugly thoughts" as Valle's kidnap conspiracy trial went to the
jury Thursday.  On a day featuring four hours of impassioned
closing arguments from both sides, Valle, a six-year NYPD
veteran, held his head and began sobbing as defense lawyer Julia
Gatto told the jury how her client had lost his "pretty wife,"
his baby daughter, and his job and wrecked his life because of
his taste for "infantile" fantasies of tormenting women.  "It's
disgusting, but it's simply not proof of conspiracy," she told
the jury. "It's only proof of ugly thoughts. . . . We don't
convict human beings because of ugly thoughts . . . His
insensitive, ugly thoughts have cost him everything. But what
his thoughts can't cost him, if you follow t