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In a Friday interview with Fox News, an anonymous accuser calling herself Jane Doe said Ghislaine Maxwell, former associate of alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, raped her at the age of 14.
Maxwell was arrested by the FBI on Thursday for allegedly helping Epstein create and expand a network of minor girls that were groomed and sexually abused. Maxwell's indictment by the Department of Justice said Maxwell pretended to be a woman the girls could trust. Jane Doe, a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against Epstein's estate, told Fox News that Maxwell was "evil."
"She did rape me," Doe said Friday. "I would say it's more than 20 or 30 times. She is just as evil as Jeffrey Epstein. She is a rapist."
Doe said Maxwell was an integral part of Epstein's alleged crimes. "I don't believe that Jeffrey Epstein could have obtained the magnitude of victims that he had had it not been for her."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-says-ghislaine-maxwell-raped-her-when-she-was-14/ar-BB16jdxA?li=BBnb7Kz
Cha
(297,322 posts)I saw Filthy Rich last night.
localroger
(3,629 posts)Not to be that guy who goes after the victim, but considering that the usual definition of the word 'rape' kind of requires the rapist to possess a penis, I have to wonder exactly what kind of assault actually happened. There is a lot more room than usual for interpretation here and without more information it's hard to know just what happened. 'Rape' is a loaded word and probably not appropriate whatever the offense was, and using that word is not helpful unless it means she really used a tool like a dildo or a male stand-in to accomplish the act -- and if something like that happened it should be clarified. And this is not at all to say that 'nothing happened.' I can easily believe that Ms. Maxwell is an evil [insert pejorative]. But hearing her accused of rape is like hearing a guy brag about putting in his first tampon. It just doesn't sound right.