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In reply to the discussion: How the heck does a guy like Epstein even get a Saudi passport...and why would he want it ? [View all]MineralMan
(151,269 posts)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.