Even intact families with parents who are out to lunch for one reason or another.
Work, drugs, booze, mental illness, etc.
Serial killers and rapists are notoriously good at identifying these kind of children.
Also Ghislaine targeted the beauty pageant girls with ambitious parents.
Gislaine told the girls and the parents she was going to introduce the girls
to men who could further their pageant dreams, etc.
The parents apparently bought the story.
Some of the girls may have been told they were going to work on the island. The money
may have been good so the some parents didn't ask too many questions,
Yes children can be brutally raped and appear somewhat normal afterwards.
They have been threatened perhaps, or told to keep quiet as it is part of the pageant process, etc.
Or that their parents will be angry with them.
Generally abused children will not talk about what happened, they are scared, shocked, traumatized.
But you will see it in a big change in behavior, not eating, sleeping or becoming withdrawn,
The girls could say they did some work on the island to make money, or some of the "pageant donors"
gave them the cash.
Bless your heart Chass, you are quite naive about how cunning and diabolical these rapists were.
And how they cooked up the stories they needed to provide cover for their crimes.
And how some parents are indifferent or too busy to give a damn.
Also the psychological reaction that children have is well known.
They just shut down and won't talk about it much.
If you recall, Trump concocted an elaborate scheme to convict E Jean Carroll to be alone
with him in a dept store dressing room. That he was shopping for a girlfriend and tricked
E. Jean with that story so he could rape her. She is a sophisticated, smart adult woman and fell for it.
The same with Story Daniels, who kicked herself when she realized Trump had tricked
her into being trapped in his bedroom with guards at the door.
And she is a very bright woman of the world.
So tricking girls and their parents would be easy for the rapists.
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