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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe victims were children and no one should lose sight of that
The Epstein scandal is repulsive and horrific. It was heinous assault and abuse of children. That fact seems to be getting lost in some of the reporting and commentary. It's not, "sex with a child". It's the most atrocious form of abuse and assault committed on a child. 13 and 14 year old girls are not "young women". They are children.

Walleye
(41,453 posts)He is constantly seen in the company of rapists. There should be a lot more people pointing that out, and not being afraid of being sued for telling the truth.
Irish_Dem
(72,465 posts)And hangs around with other rapists.
Gimpyknee
(358 posts)Irish_Dem
(72,465 posts)I am not in the mood to defend the son of a bitch or defend him.
soldierant
(8,738 posts)which has possibly the narrowest definition of rape in the nation. The judge at his trial actually said that in most other states, the charge would have qualified as rape. That is why so many people are calling it rape. And I get that.
Aviation Pro
(14,545 posts)Do that double giraffe jerkoff, you fucking pedophile.
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mercuryblues
(15,740 posts)some were younger than that and they were not all girls.
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TommieMommy
(2,200 posts)et tu
(2,353 posts)of their lives and made also
to lose their childhood before
they should have. as i have said
before, standing room only in hell
for these abusers - just way to many.
IronLionZion
(49,473 posts)For the same reason they use "kids" and "youthful indiscretion" and similar for adult men who commit crimes against these young girls.
"locker room talk" that happens maybe in the Trump golf course locker room. They try to normalize horrible stuff that has no excuse.
Marthe48
(21,278 posts)I only saw a minute, the part where the daughter and another girl were going to be raped by a fat old man, and I turned it off. But why was that aspect of rape such a trigger, but the same people who abhorred that are fine with the details coming out about felon rapist traitor, epstein and other foul predators? And the same kind of monster being asshole uber alles?
Cherokee100
(405 posts)Whatever happened to the movie 'Apprentice' ? It was here, for a few days and then disappeared.
TheRickles
(2,855 posts)dlk
(12,787 posts)This was calculated child abuse and these monsters destroyed, and discarded children as though they were nothing more than used kleenex.
Godot51
(558 posts)As is usual with "men of power" they prey on the helpless.
Then they claim those helpless were somehow responsible for their fates.
slightlv
(6,137 posts)I was going to say everywhere, but I don't have experience and knowledge of elsewhere, to know if that die that was cast encompasses all evil males everywhere. Whether it's sex slaves, slaves, little girls or little boys, it's predatory behavior based on a power structure this country exalts. Until we can bring that power structure down to ground in shreds, where it belongs, we'll always have this evil in our midst. Sometimes, I wonder if testosterone shouldn't be regulated after a certain age.
pansypoo53219
(22,402 posts)AntiFascist
(13,532 posts)rickyhall
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(25,572 posts)Blue Owl
(56,710 posts)If indeed there is a God how has he not turned into a pillar of salt?