The women who stood up in court Aug. 27, one after another, to tell their stories of sexual assault by Jeffrey Epstein faced the judge, but their real audience may have been the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, seated behind them in the front row.
If U.S. District Judge Richard Berman meant to increase the already intense pressure on him to bring charges against those suspected of conspiring with Epstein to traffic in children for sex, he could scarcely have done better than to invite the women to testify.
Many of them expressed shock and bitterness at being twice deprived ...
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