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Julie K. Brown's new article about Epstein and the people around him at the Miami Herald:
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‘When you are in, you can’t get out.’ Women describe how Jeffrey Epstein controlled them
For two decades, Jeffrey Epstein built a sex trafficking enterprise that reached across state borders and spanned the globe. Using an almost bottomless quarry of wealth and connections, he not only employed recruiters around the world, but enlisted the help of an array of seemingly legitimate people — from hairdressers to psychiatrists to immigration lawyers and dentists.
Even doctors who prescribed his victims birth control and screened them for sexually transmitted diseases.
While many of his survivors were underage, there were countless others who were 18 to 23, a group of women who have been reluctant to come forward because, despite the ordeal they went through, they are ashamed and believe that the public doesn’t look at them as victims at all.
But a closer look at Epstein’s sex trafficking operation sheds new light on how the multimillionaire and his accomplices perfected a process to sexually exploit and abuse young women that was so organized — and so apparently acceptable to many of those around Epstein — that his victims, even those above the age of consent, came to believe that it was almost normal.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article235247637.html#storylink=cpy
For two decades, Jeffrey Epstein built a sex trafficking enterprise that reached across state borders and spanned the globe. Using an almost bottomless quarry of wealth and connections, he not only employed recruiters around the world, but enlisted the help of an array of seemingly legitimate people — from hairdressers to psychiatrists to immigration lawyers and dentists.
Even doctors who prescribed his victims birth control and screened them for sexually transmitted diseases.
While many of his survivors were underage, there were countless others who were 18 to 23, a group of women who have been reluctant to come forward because, despite the ordeal they went through, they are ashamed and believe that the public doesn’t look at them as victims at all.
But a closer look at Epstein’s sex trafficking operation sheds new light on how the multimillionaire and his accomplices perfected a process to sexually exploit and abuse young women that was so organized — and so apparently acceptable to many of those around Epstein — that his victims, even those above the age of consent, came to believe that it was almost normal.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article235247637.html#storylink=cpy
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“There were doctors and psychiatrists and gynecologist visits. There were dentists who whitened our teeth. There was a doctor who gave me Xanax. What doctor in their right mind, who is supposed to protect their patients, gives girls and young women Xanax?’’ Giuffre said.
Ransome said at one point when she was on the verge of a breakdown Epstein sent her to a psychiatrist to whom she confided about the abuse. He did nothing except put her on Lithium.
“I find it so funny with all these people, after Jeffrey was arrested, saying ‘we didn’t know — we didn’t see anything’.” Ransome said.
Ransome said at one point when she was on the verge of a breakdown Epstein sent her to a psychiatrist to whom she confided about the abuse. He did nothing except put her on Lithium.
“I find it so funny with all these people, after Jeffrey was arrested, saying ‘we didn’t know — we didn’t see anything’.” Ransome said.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article235247637.html#storylink=cpy
