Epstein’s victims, whose names are not publicized in the plaintiff, filed a lawsuit against the FBI for enabling the pedophile to run his sex trafficking ring for more than 20 years.
These victims report that they have asked the FBI to intervene on the matter since 1996 but buried the information.
According to an article from The Hill, “A probe finally began in 2006, the suit says, but ended once Epstein pleaded guilty to a soliciting prostitution charge in Florida and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The suit claims the FBI continued to ignore tips until Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019. He killed himself in prison months later.”
“As a direct and proximate cause of the FBI’s negligence, plaintiffs would not have been continued to be sex trafficked, abused, raped, tortured and threatened,” the complaint states, according to the report. “Jane Does 1-12 bring this lawsuit to get to the bottom — once and for all — of the FBI’s role in Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking ring.”
The victims also claim that the FBI had evidence of his crimes but refused to budge.
According to the lawsuit, “During the FBI investigation, the FBI was complicit in permitting Epstein and co-conspirators to continue to victimize Jane Does 1-12 and other young women.”
The victims further said that the FBI had evidence of child prostitution but chose not to take action and arrest Epstein “in deviation from the FBI protocols.”
“The FBI had a non-discretionary obligation, governed by established policies, procedures, rules, and protocols, to handle and investigate tips concerning potential and ongoing underage child erotica, rape, sex with minors, and sex trafficking in a reasonable manner and to act against Epstein and to prevent him from committing repeated crimes,” tells the 12 complainants.
The motion further blasted the FBI for failing to “take appropriate action and botched and covered up investigations for years.”
The lawsuit demanded the government pay damages.
Epstein, who was first convicted as a sexual offender, served an 18-month sentence in 2006 for soliciting prostitution. He was arrested again in 2019.
He died in prison in August 2019, a few months after his arrest. Although his death was reported by suicide, the exact circumstances of his death are still under intense public scrutiny. The lawsuit followed a court decision allowing documents related to Virginia Giuffre’s civil lawsuit against Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Among his close friends and frequent visitors to his infamous island were Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton.
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