The Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands filed a civil suit on Wednesday, accusing the US businessman and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before, until 2018 – and thus until a few months before his death – abused young women and girls. Epstein died in a New York prison cell in August 2019. According to forensic medicine the 66-year-old committed suicide,
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Prosecutor General of the United States Virgin Islands, Denise George, requests compensation from the Epstein legacy for crimes allegedly committed by the millionaire in US territories from 2001 to 2018. The US judiciary had brought charges against him prior to Epstein’s death; however, it only referred to the period from 2002 to 2005. During this time, he was to set up an illegal sex trade ring in New York and Florida, the indictment said.
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According to George, Epstein owned two private islands in the Caribbean. On Little Saint James, he raped and detained dozens of teenagers in the lawsuit now filed, It describes, among other things, the case of a 15-year-old who was abused by Epstein and then tried unsuccessfully to flee the island by swimming. She was picked up and captured. Other suspected victims are reported to have been only eleven and twelve years old. Epstein operated a “comprehensive system of trafficking and sexual abuse of young women in the US Virgin Islands,” said George.
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If convicted, Epstein would face a prison sentence of up to 45 years. Several women in the US accused him of passing them on to friends and acquaintances as “sex slaves”. Epstein had good contacts with numerous politicians and celebrities.
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