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massage his chest, often thstnithing them to
pinch his nipples, while he mastur.ted ac-
cording to the police report
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Kellen (now Metiers) and Maitinkova,
enerbels, declined to comment
Targeting disadvantaged girls
One girl told polite that she was approached
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I kept looking at the timer because I didn't enact to have this
mental image of what he was doing.
— Michelle Licata, Jane Doe No. 2, who told police
she had sexual encounters vvith Jeffrey Epstein
by their peer reenthers to lic b Epstcin about
S1,000, the police report said. their ages and say they were 18. Epstein, legal
Most of the girls came from disadthntaged
families. single-pare:ftd=es=e•
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and beat them. One girl had watched hcr
the pfat.r stningle .r 8-year-old stepbrother,
ficLoaritlding to court records obtained by the
Many of the girls were one step away from
Ithmelessness.
"We were sti,id, poor children:. said one
woman. who did not want to be named because
she never told anyone about Epstein. At the
time, she recalled that the was 14 and a high
school freshman.
"We just wanted money for sclthol clothes,
for shoes. I remember wearing shoes too tight
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going to just have to sit in a room topless and
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multiple times, said Epstein didn't like her
because her bre.s were too big. The I. time
she went, she said, onc girl came out crying
and they were instructed to leave the house and
had to pay for their own cab homc.
Some girls told police thcy xere coached
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known.
However, under Florida law, ignorance of
a sex partner, age is not a defense for having
sex with a minor.
Wild, who worked for Epstein mil she was
21, said he was well aware of their tender ages
gate, Epstein get icaeeaaingiy angey eiih hat
— because he demanded t.y be young.
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old girl told Palm Beach police that :11-lheaLl
been molested by Epstein at his mansion. The
girl reluctantly confessed t.t she had been
brought there by two other girls, and those girls
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victim, there were tuo and three more to find.
Soon there were dozens.
"We didn't know where the victims would
ever end," Reiter said.
Eventually, the girls told t.m about still
other girls and young isemen they had seen at
hRluse. ma.7 of whom didn't speak
That ted RacTaYres; to suspect that Epstein,
exploits weren't just confined to Palm Beach.
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asennd peozrerffil people who had also been pas-
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bureau's we.ite as a result of the Herald,
Freedom of Information Act request, shows
that at the time the non-prosecution deal was
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The probe stretcneuactrom Florida to New York
and New Mexico, records show.
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Task Force, said the FBI had enough cvidence
to put Epstein away for a long time but was
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Some of t.agPertrtitirved in the tase were
disappointed by Acosta, bowing to pthssure
from Epstein, lawyers, he said.
"T. day that a sitting U.S. attorney is afraid
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sex-trafficking conspiracy
beyond Palm Beach.
Upon his nomination by
Trump as labor secretary in
2017.Acosta was ques-
tioned about thc Epstein
ease during a Senate confir-
mation hcaring. Alexander
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goes to jail, that guarantees he tegister [as a
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California Dcmocratic Scn. Dianne Fein-
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scx trafficking of underage girls when he was
a u.S. attorney suggests he won't put thc inter-
ests of workeis and everyday people ahead of
the powerful and well-connected,
Matti Hamikon. a University of Pennsyl-
:xdcortircers against chil(Ilirdthii: said. what tos, ta
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of power by men only is protected as long as
everybody agrees to keep it secret. This is a
story the uorld needs to hear,
Jane Doe No. 2
Michelle Licata climbed a narrow, winding
vast master bcd and bath, with cream-colored
shag carpeting and a hot pink and mint green
sofa.
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timer.
A silver-haired man wearing nothing but a
white towel came into the room. lay 6.
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and feet.
After he hung up, the man turned over and
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