Yeah, seriously. It actually sounds like she might have had it even worse than his “normal” victims. What an absolutely disgusting piece of shit. As time goes on and we learn more, he only looks more and more fundamentally evil.

Brad Edwards, an attorney for Doe, told The Daily Beast, “In addition to Epstein’s rotation of victims, there was typically one person who he made believe was his girlfriend, usually completely in the dark about his criminal abuse.”

“Jane Doe 200 was that girlfriend during this period of time, which means she learned more information than most other victims,” Edwards added. “In the end, Epstein violently raped her in a manner far worse than his usual modus operandi. This victim has lived in a particular fear for a long time and she deserves justice.”

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Jane Doe 200

jesus fucking christ, you know shit's really fucked when the people against you have hit anonymous victim number 200

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You do realize that someone can rape their spouse/partner right? The article does state that they were romantically involved for a year prior to the rape, so ex would be appropriate here.

[+] Crikeste@lemm.ee -43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How are you seriously going to defend a pedophile? He manipulated her into believing she was his girlfriend while she was his child sex slave.

Quit defending pedophiles.

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Wtf? No I’m not defending anyone, are you serious? I’m just saying that the fucking newspaper headline is accurate and isn’t disparaging/insensitive to the victim in the situation.

Jesus fucking christ you are primed and ready to fucking go with your outrage. The article didn’t mention anything about the victim being a minor when they met, or about her being groomed. If that’s the case, yeah super fucked up, no shit. I literally opened the article after reading the post I responded to, read it, saw that it said the victim and Epstein were in a consensual relationship, then he raped her a year later.

If I’m missing context blame the article, not me dude.

[–] toastboy79@kbin.earth 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sadly your situation is more common than we'd hope on Lemmy.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Even more on common Reddit, but ya, you can't really escape it lol.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago

Pissing on the poor is lemmy's favourite sport.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

Ghislaine's father had several leaders and ex-leaders of Mossad at his funeral, and the Prime Minister of Israel gave the eulogy.

Definately stuff going on.

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 4 points 4 months ago

Mossad being involved would not surprise me at this point, that includes his 'suicide'.

[–] noisefree@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

That would certainly make his unlikely career trajectory (constant lateral moves upwards once sussed out as a fraud or just plain bad employee) make even more sense than the typical "rich dad ergo fail upward" explanation.

Now do Alan Dershowitz!

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I thought it was common knowledge that he was Mossad?