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MineralMan

(151,269 posts)
10. Every year, a lot of teen girls run away from home.
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 11:44 AM
Jul 2019

Some are found and returned. Others disappear in one way or another.

Most are troubled for some reason. Maybe they are being abused at home. For whatever reason, runaways are vulnerable to the typical exploiters. They know how to get their confidence and them get them to do all sorts of things.

Epstein seems to me to be a manipulator of troubled young girls. Either he or one of his surrogates befriends a girl and grooms her for further abuse. Happens all the time. In some cases it is some pimp who then turns the girl out to turn tricks for him. Or, it's someone like Epstein, who uses the girls and, probably, hands them off to others, in exchange for whatever he needs.

Many girls who have disappeared are never seen again. They are lost to the sex trafficking business. Epstein is a world traveler, and has many properties. It's not difficult to imagine him giving a young girl to someone who can get him a foreign passport. The girl is taken out of the United States and never seen again.

There are runaway teenagers everywhere, in every city. Some are recovered and saved. Others just disappear into a shadow world and are lost forever.

That's sex trafficking. That's the horror of what Epstein is probably up to. For ever girl he has abused and might speak out against him, there are others nobody will ever know about, I'm certain.

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You trade a young girl for the passport. MineralMan Jul 2019 #1
...or, more appropriately, 72 young girls. librechik Jul 2019 #7
Every year, a lot of teen girls run away from home. MineralMan Jul 2019 #10
yes--we turned over a rock librechik Jul 2019 #14
All sorts of creatures live under rocks. MineralMan Jul 2019 #15
He's Involved in Sex Trafficking Skraxx Jul 2019 #2
Why? Three reasons: no_hypocrisy Jul 2019 #3
He gets it by blackmailing crown princes Recursion Jul 2019 #4
Does he need to blackmail them? LiberalFighter Jul 2019 #20
It's doubtful that was the only fake passport he had... Wounded Bear Jul 2019 #5
Yeah, that's what I was thinking also. Probably has used several over the years. dameatball Jul 2019 #17
Having a Saudi passport as a Jewish man gives him absolutely free access throughout the Arab world hlthe2b Jul 2019 #6
Mossad has a factory: dalton99a Jul 2019 #8
You thinking Mossad made his Saudi passport ?? CincyDem Jul 2019 #12
Great points. Didn't realize there was no extradition. CincyDem Jul 2019 #9
Arab Emirates, more likely (also no extradition) hlthe2b Jul 2019 #13
Maybe he trafficked little girls for MBS or was a spy for the House of Saud? Both? fleur-de-lisa Jul 2019 #11
As mentioned below, no evidence that it was a Saudi Passport ... mr_lebowski Jul 2019 #25
not hard to believe. JI7 Jul 2019 #16
I use to know a reformed high end prostitute mitch96 Jul 2019 #18
It is afterall a cash business. Wellstone ruled Jul 2019 #19
FYI The passport was described as issued by a 'foreign country'. His 'residence' was listed as S.A. Princess Turandot Jul 2019 #21
+1 for your attention to detail mr_lebowski Jul 2019 #23
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Vinca Jul 2019 #22
Just to throw another tin foil into the pot, PRETZEL Jul 2019 #24
My thought immediately went to 'spy' when hearing about the passport ... mr_lebowski Jul 2019 #30
Are you sure that's what the report said? DFW Jul 2019 #26
Maybe I'm wrong, PRETZEL Jul 2019 #28
The point is SDNY didn't call it a Saudi passport, they purposefully (it seems) neglected to name mr_lebowski Jul 2019 #33
Yes, that is a detail that jives with what I heard. DFW Jul 2019 #34
and why would he keep a expired fake passport? WhiteTara Jul 2019 #27
Why do smart people do dumb things? n/t PoliticAverse Jul 2019 #29
I thought it might have been a souvenir WhiteTara Jul 2019 #31
"How the heck does a guy like Epstein even get a Saudi passport." PoliticAverse Jul 2019 #32
A good reason was explained last night watoos Jul 2019 #35
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