Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein arrested for alleged sex trafficking of young girls

Описание: Eleven years after letting billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein off lightly with a once-secret plea deal, the U.S. government is taking another run at putting the wealthy sex offender behind bars with new sex-trafficking charges alleging he abused dozens of underage girls as young as 14.

Federal prosecutors on Monday announced sex trafficking and conspiracy charges against Epstein, who was arrested Saturday related to alleged incidents in Florida and New York City.

Court documents unsealed Monday show Epstein is charged with creating and maintaining a network that allowed him to sexually exploit and abuse dozens of underage girls, with alleged victims as young as 14 at the time.

Authorities say he paid underage girls for massages and then molested them at his homes in both states in the early 2000s. He "intentionally sought out minors and knew that many of his victims were in fact under the age of 18," prosecutors said.

He also paid some of his victims to "recruit additional girls to be similarly abused by Epstein," the indictment says. "In this way, Epstein created a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit in locations including New York and Palm Beach."

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