NYTIMES Editorial Board: Who Protected Jeffrey Epstein?

[pnwmom]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/opinion/epstein-indictment.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

On Monday, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York unsealed a 14-page indictment against Jeffrey Epstein, charging the wealthy financier with operating and conspiring to operate a sex trafficking ring of girls out of his luxe homes on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and in Palm Beach, Fla., “among other locations.”

Even in the relatively sterile language of the legal system, the accusations against Mr. Epstein are nauseating. From “at least in or about” 2002 through 2005, the defendant “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls,” some as young as 14 and many “particularly vulnerable to exploitation.” The girls were “enticed and recruited” to visit Mr. Epstein’s various homes “to engage in sex acts with him, after which he would give the victims hundreds of dollars.” To “maintain and increase his supply of victims,” he paid some of the girls “to recruit additional girls to be similarly abused,” thus creating “a vast network of underage victims.”

If convicted, Mr. Epstein faces up to 45 years in prison. This seems a reasonable, if belated, punishment for the rampant abuse of girls of which Mr. Epstein stands credibly accused.

But Mr. Epstein is not the only one for whom a reckoning is long overdue.

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[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Long overdue is right!! It's time to expose these degenerates... regardless of their status!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[Skittles]

2. yes....lets's have the WHOLE STORY

[bucolic_frolic]

3. "nauseating" is the word

these guys had all the money in the world at their disposal and they chose to prey on children

ewwww! yuck. creeps.

$200 is like a nickel to people like this. guess it helped their dominant egos and superiority.

disgusting.

[meadowlander]

4. Nobody becomes a pedophile when they are 49

abuses hundred of girls for three years and then stops.

We haven't even seen the first hint of the tip of the iceberg here. He was a partner at Bear Sterns more than 20 years before that so it's not like suddenly coming into wealth later in life enabled him to indulge in nasty shit he could only fantasize about when he was younger.

[flotsam]

5. Have the Magats checked

to see if this is the guy with both a Pizza Parlor AND a basement???