If you’ve been following this week’s news of the rich and famous, you know by know that millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and charged with federal crimes of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
Many of the headlines since then have read that he is accused of “Sex with underage women.” Really? Why are we whitewashing? Why are we not calling it what it is? Rape of children. Trafficking of children. This man and many of his “friends” were allegedly raping children for their amusement.
How sick is it that these girls — these children — were not only raped and trafficked around the country and internationally, their abusers groomed at least some of them to become “recruiters.