Newly unsealed documents have revealed that two teenage girls, allegedly subjected to sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, were separately branded as prostitutes and drug addicts by a prosecutor. Approximately 175 pages of transcripts from a 2006 grand jury investigation into allegations against Epstein were released to the public on Monday afternoon. This unsealing follows Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signing a bill in February, enabling Circuit Judge Luis Delgado to execute the order.
Delgado emphasized that the details documented will be “outrageous to decent people.”
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The jury heard evidence that Epstein, who took his own life while incarcerated in 2019, had raped girls as young as 14 years old at his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, according to the transcripts.
Palm Beach County prosecutors now face widespread condemnation for their treatment of two of Epstein’s alleged young female victims, who were belittled and treated like criminals during the investigation.
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“It was just atrocious the way they handled it,” Spencer Kuvin, an attorney representing one of the alleged underage girls who testified, told CBS as he read the transcripts.
A search of Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion on El Brillo Way led to his 2008 indictment. During the grand jury proceedings, prosecutors called upon an alleged Epstein victim, who was 14 years old at the time her stepmother reported that the teenager had received $300 to massage an older man on Palm Beach Island.
The girl recounted that Epstein’s assistant asked her to strip to her underwear before entering the room and massaging Epstein. She then agreed to allow him to use a vibrator on her for an additional $100, as per the documents.
Prosecutors continued to interrogate the girl, who had turned 15 by the time of her testimony, suggesting she “had a problem with drugs.” They also questioned her about a body piercing and a social media post where she lied about her age, income, and bragged about shoplifting. The teen testified that the post was “a joke.”
“You aware that you committed a crime?” one of the prosecutors, Lanna Belohlavek, asked the witness.
The girl responded: “Now I am. I didn’t know it was a crime when I was doing it. Now, I guess it’s prostitution or something like that.”
Another witness, an investigator, was asked whether the 14-year-old’s social media account included pictures of “her in skimpy attire, drinking alcohol and sexually provocative photos.”
“Yes, ma’am,” they responded.
The second girl to testify before the grand jury stated she was just 16 years old when she first went to Epstein’s mansion. “He was well aware of my age from the very beginning,” she said. Her 10th and final encounter occurred the day before her 18th birthday when Epstein initiated intercourse. She testified that she didn’t want to engage in the act but did not ask him to stop.
“You understand that you, in effect, were committing prostitution yourself,” a prosecutor asked. “Yes,” the witness replied.
Epstein was arrested, booked, and released on bond following the grand jury’s indictment on one charge of solicitation of prostitution.
The official report is that Epstein killed himself, many dought that official cause of death.
