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Sheila Jackson Lee: I include in the Record an article: `` `Open secret' at Royal Palm High School: At least 15 students were lured to…

On the recordSeptember 19, 2022
I include in the Record an article: `` `Open secret' at Royal Palm High School: At least 15 students were lured to Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion'' right out of the school. Open Secret at Royal Palm High: At Least 15 Students Were Lured to Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach Mansion (By Lulu Ramadan) Tucked in the drawer of Jeffrey Epstein's bedroom desk, near a massage table and a wooden armoire filled with sex toys, was a teenage girl's Royal Palm Beach High School transcript. She was 16 years old when Epstein lured her to his Palm Beach home set at the end of a dead-end street behind a wall of hedges. And she's one of at least 15 girls from Royal Palm Beach High School who Epstein sexually exploited in that bedroom 15 years ago, police reports reveal. Epstein, a multimillionaire financier then in his 50s, lured a procession of girls as young as 14 to his home to perform nude massages for money, police and court records say. The massages often ended with Epstein groping or sexually assaulting the girls. Epstein's victims attended several Palm Beach County schools, including Lake Worth Middle and Palm Beach Gardens High. But Royal Palm Beach High, with about 3,000 students, many from the county's rural reaches, was ground zero. Evidence suggests Epstein knew his victims were school girls and the signs didn't escape Royal Palm Beach High administrators.…
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas
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Sep 19, 2022

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