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The judge was concerned that if released, Mr.
Epstein would again abuse teenage girls
Judge Berman's decision portrayed Mr. Epstein as
sex offender who could not be trusted to curb his
sexual fixation with teenagers. He pointed to the
nature of Mr. Epstein's alleged crimes and his
propensity to commit them.
"The crimes Mr. Epstein has been charged with are
among the most heinous in the law principally, in
the court's view, because they involve minor girls,"
the judge wrote.
A federal indictment charged that between 2002 and
2005, Mr. Epstein and his employees paid dozens of
underage girls — at least one as young as 14 years
old — to give him massages while nude or topless
at his residences in Manhattan and Palm Beach,
Fla.
During the massages, he engaged in various sex
acts with them, the indictment said. He also used
some of the teenagers to recruit other girls to abuse,
paying the "victim-recruiters" hundreds of dollars
for each girl they brought to him, the indictment
said.
"Mr. Epstein's alleged excessive attraction to sexual
conduct with or in the presence of minor girls —
which is said to include his soliciting and receiving
massages from young girls and young women
perhaps as many as four times a day — appears
likely to be uncontrollable," Judge Berman wrote.
"It seems fair to say that Mr. Epstein's future
behavior will be consistent with past behavior," the
judge added.
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