Posted on 08/20/2019 7:22:03 AM PDT by Enterprise
More than two decades before Jeffrey Epstein took his own life, a woman went into a California police station and filed one of the earliest sex-crime complaints against him: that he groped her during what she thought was a modeling interview for the Victoria’s Secret catalog.
Alicia Arden said she never heard back from investigators about her complaint. No charges ever came of it. And to this day she sees it as a glaring missed opportunity to bring the financier to justice long before he was accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls and women.
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For the sake of brevity, let us assume that she reported the groping because she was serious about going to court. That being the case, whether it was a felony or misdemeanor at the time, the detective should have written the case under the proper penal code. It doesn’t appear that this would have been a lengthy report. He also should have attempted to make contact with Epstein. If he was unsuccessful, which would be normal, he then should have walked the case over to the District Attorney’s office and let them make the decision on whether or not to have a judge sign a warrant. And 22 years later, no one could point to the detective and said he didn’t do anything with the case.
Recent events have shown that to be painfully true! There’s one standard for the ruling elite, and another for the peasants.
“What is ironic about that? They are the genuine plaintiffs.”
I’m talking about Acosta.
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