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Uncle Joe

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Sun Dec 28, 2025, 12:06 PM 6 hrs ago

'You know what I like': Epstein files reveal disgraced financier's routine abuse of girls [View all]

Released documents detail the assembly line-like process with which Jeffrey Epstein procured underage victims

By the mid-2000s, Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of teen girls was routine. From 2002 to 2005 alone, the late financier victimized “dozens” of underage teens by luring them into sex acts for payment under the auspices of massage work, some as young as 14, prosecutors said.

Epstein leaned on a coterie of employees and associates – including British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell – to secure a “steady supply of minor victims”. He also enlisted his victims to recruit other girls under the false pretense of providing massages, prosecutors said.

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These documents – released over the past week by a Trump administration under intense political pressure from both Democrats and Republicans – also make clearer how girls and young women were perceived as commodities: mere bodies meant to serve a predator’s twisted predilections – and possibly those of his associates.

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“Cant just bring girls he doesn’t like,” the interview apparently recounted. “Told her keep looking for girls.” At one point, someone witnessed Epstein “asking for ID to girl wanted to make sure under 18 b/c he wasn’t believing them b/c [redacted] messed up by bringing more older girls”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/28/epstein-files-reveal-routine-child-abuse
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