Jeffrey Epstein was found semi-conscious on the floor of his jail cell July 25. It wasn’t known if he had attempted suicide or been assaulted by another prisoner, but he wasn’t having a good time in any event, and here’s why. CNBC:
A day before accused child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found mysteriously injured in his jail cell, the wealthy financier was served legal documents detailing a woman’s claims that he raped her in his New York City mansion when she was just 15 years old.
The accuser, Jennifer Araoz, plans to sue Epstein next month for claims of sexual assault, battery and rape, which she alleges he started committing when she was a New York high school student in 2001, according to a court filing earlier this month.
But first, Araoz is asking a judge to order Epstein to submit to a deposition, where he can be asked by Araoz’s lawyers the identity of a female “recruiter”who allegedly conspired with him to identify her “as a potential sexual abuse victim” and “facilitated the grooming” of Araoz.
“Upon identification of the recruiter, she will be added as a defendant to” Araoz’s planned suit against Epstein, the filing says. “Further, the recruiter possesses critical evidence of [Araoz’s] sexual assault claims.”
Araoz grew up poor in Queens and lost her father at the age of 12. She alleges that Epstein began abusing her at age 14 and raped her at age 15. She was one of many under age girls that Epstein plied with gifts and groomed. Epstein’s future looks rather grim. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving creep.
Thank you Ursula. I am so glad to see these women standing up for themselves, against such horrible opposition. Bravo to them.
This is one case I keep an eagle eye on. Epstein is a monster. And he had a lot of enablers, the great Alan Dershowitz amongst them.
Subir, did a diary today about dershowitz doing an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times, I think, arguing that statutory rape laws need to be abolished. Evidently d bag dersh, has been advocating for the ability to rape children for a long time. Oh, dershowitz wrote this piece in 1997, i forgot to say.
Subir actually wrote about something other than the greatness of Bernie & the worthlessness of anyone who challenges him?
I know, so strange. I usually avoid most of his diaries. 1000 comments with everyone fighting, and being horrible and rude. No, thank you.
He seems to have little awareness that when you are that committed to one candidate in the field, diaries ripping apart other candidates, especially comparing them unfavorably to yours, will not be received as sincere or helpful.
Him and a few others. There is a new one up right now. Fighting, bickering, gnashing of teeth. I admire the people who fight against it, it doesn’t change anything though. They keep writing the same diary, over and over again.
It’s painful to think about this case…that for almost twenty years this victim lived with this horrible crime and it’s consequences while Epstein went free, lived a life of luxury, and worst of all was abusing other girls.
He’s in prison now, and that’s appropriate, but we need t work toward the day when a rapist is in jail the day after the crime, not years later. That’s what justice looks like.
I hope you mean “arrested the day after the crime”. Because jail should be after the verdict. Epstein is in jail *now* because he’s a flight risk.
I assumed a rapist would be arrested, put in jail and then processed for bail pending trial.
If that’s not how it works…I haven’t had much of an opportunity to be involved in the criminal justice system. I felt like I was very close to getting on a jury one time in San Diego…I was sitting in the box being asked questions. Then the courthouse was evacuated because (true story) another room broke for lunch from a homicide trial, everyone left and forgot to secure the defendant, and he walked out in a suit and tie.
He was apprehended a couple of hours later…but this totally disrupted our trial and we were dismissed from service. And hey, I found an old article about that day…
https://www.policeone.com/archive/articles/78309-Murder-Suspect-Richard-Tuite-Escapes-From-San-Diego-County-Courts-Complex/
I really wanted to serve on a jury, dang it.
They need to cut his balls off …
Believe it or not, castration does not deter rapists. They will use an instrumentality to rape, if that’s who they are. Bear in mind, it is not so much a sexual crime as a violent crime. Power and domination are the key aspects, from all that I have read, not lust.
Ursula, what he is, is a pedophile. There is no cure for this, no medication. The only thing that helps is to castrate them.