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Sheila Jackson Lee: I would just simply like to suggest that we can find trafficking in many other places. I also include in the Record the…

On the recordSeptember 19, 2022
I would just simply like to suggest that we can find trafficking in many other places. I also include in the Record the article: ``Epstein's `ground zero': How the financier reportedly wreaked havoc on Royal Palm Beach High School community.'' [From Business Insider, July 27, 2019] Epstein's `Ground Zero': How the Financier Reportedly Wreaked Havoc on the Royal Palm Beach High School Community (By Kat Tenbarge) Former Royal Palm Beach High School Assistant Principal Carolyn Brown told The Palm Beach Post it was an ``open secret'' that female students were involved in something suspicious that involved hundreds of dollars in cash and resulted in girls being bullied for being ``prostitutes'' and ``sugar babies.'' What administers didn't know, or at least didn't act upon, was that at least 15 underage girls enrolled at the high school were sexually assaulted by financier and now convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to police reports obtained by The Palm Beach Post. Like dozens of other accusations against the shadowy financier, who is currently being held without bail on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy in the southern district of New York, Epstein's Royal Palm Beach High accusers say he paid them to give him massages, during which he would coerce them into sex acts.…
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas
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Sep 19, 2022

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