American financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged with sex trafficking on Monday, a...
NEW YORK - American financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged with sex trafficking on Monday, as prosecutors accused him of luring dozens of girls as young as 14 to his luxury homes in New York and Florida and paying them for sex acts.
Prosecutors will ask a judge that Epstein be detained pending trial, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, said at a press conference. Epstein has said in earlier court filings that his encounters with alleged victims were consensual and that he believed they were 18 when they occurred.on Saturday night at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, where he had returned on his private plane from Paris.
By 2007, Epstein was facing a potential federal indictment for sexually abusing dozens of girls between 1999 and 2007, directing others to abuse them, and paying employees to bring victims to him, according to court filings.
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