Twelve victims of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, accused of trafficking and sexual abuse of minors, reported last Wednesday, February 14, to the FBI for an alleged cover-up of the magnate’s practices. The women stated that the US police agency did not properly investigate the allegations against him, thus making it difficult to investigate and find the truth regarding the case.
It should be noted that victims filed the lawsuit under a pseudonym to protect their identity in a court in the Southern District of New York. According to different local media, the document indicates that the women have taken said legal action “to get to the bottom of the matter, once and for all, about the role of the FBI in Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking network.”
The indictment document argues that the FBI allowed Jeffrey Epstein to traffic girls and young women and exploit and abuse them at parties and meetings he held on his private island for 20 years. The complainants describe the actions of the police agency as “flagrant negligence” that gave rise to endless abuses by the businessman.
According to the prosecution’s argument, the FBI received a series of tips, complaints and information about the activities that Epstein and a group of like-minded people were carrying out between 1996 and 2006. However, said organization did not initiate the corresponding investigation. until that last year, at which time Epstein was arrested in Florida due to different charges related to the prostitution of a minor.
In 2008, through a secret agreement with the Florida Prosecutor’s Office that has been harshly criticized years later by the Department of Justice, Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to the charges, served 13 months in prison and registered as a sex offender in that state.
It should be noted that, although Epstein committed suicide in 2019 in a federal prison in New York where he was awaiting trial for allegedly creating a child trafficking network and for holding parties in which he sexually abused older and younger girls, age, the issue has once again made hundreds of headlines because the US Justice Department published hundreds of court documents related to the case last January.
The documents, which have been classified for years, belong to a defamation lawsuit against British heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former lover and partner who was sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison for ‘helping’ the businessman sexually abuse juvenile.
When the papers came to light, a long list of names of people who would have had some type of relationship with Epstein was discovered, as well as different testimonies and stories that caused a great social impact worldwide.
