The young girls were complimented, given nice clothes and paid cash regularly, Epstein posing as a benefactor and Maxwell generally like an “older sister” who legitimized these activities because she was female and seemed to care for them individually.
Plus, being wealthy probably signaled to the girls that had they tried to prosecute them, they’d be defeated because of Epstein’s elite contacts.
I don’t excuse what the girls knowingly did but they aren’t the criminals here any more than a sex slave might be. I’m sure they felt powerless to change their situations because they lacked the family support to provide them a backbone to stand up to the abuse.
Not that it is the same but that “pairing”of a male abuser with a female to lure and abuse was seen with Ian Brady and Myra Hindley back in the sixties. Horrible people murdered the victims in that case but that strange duo.
14,15,16,yr old girls today certainly know about sexual advances. I don’t call them ‘children’ in how they conduct themselves today. Groomed or whatever reasons they kept going back somethings just not kosher thus far in these happenings.