Follow-up question. "During this time, were you in fact under the age of 18, and therefore below the age of consent?"
If they were all consenting adults at the time, no one would bat an eye. Especially not on TERB.
I'll wager 99.999% were all over the age of 18!
(Oh wait a minute, 1 who was 17 years, 11 months and 29 days ... slipped through the cracks!)
And, that, was breathlessly seized upon by the NY Times and CNN!
The reason sex slave Virginia Giuffre was an inexplicable no-show at the Maxwell trial ... was because she would have been blown out of the water upon cross examination!
She would have been exposed as a mendacious exaggerator... or worse, a straight-up fabulist!
It would have emerged that the degree of victimhood that she (and that of other alleged victims) ... was greatly exaggerated!
(Not at all consistent with the narrative promulgated by the NY Times and CNN!)
It would have emerged during an adept cross examination .... that many of the alleged victims ... were well-coached, embellishing drama queens!
It would have emerged that she (and other alleged victims) ... willingly prostituted themselves to princes, potentates, millionaires and billionaires!
It would have emerged that she (and other alleged victims) ... became recruiters themselves!
It would have also emerged that she (and other alleged victims)... invited their friends along!
It would have also emerged that she (and other alleged victims) ... took their parents along when they flew on Epstein's private jet to his private island!
WTF?
I'll bet the NY Times and CNN never reported any of THAT!
(What would the jury have thought ... after hearing THAT?)
That is why sex slave Virginia Giuffre didn't testify!
And lastly, by her testimony it would have emerged that the sexual acts they were forced to perform with heinous sexual predators (after a sumptuous lunch prepared by Epstein's private chef)... consisted of nothing more a massage and a handjob to a well-behaved, harmless, middle-aged millionaire or billionaire!
(For which they gladly accepted a $300 tip!)
That's how it all probably really went down!
Not exactly the narrative the NY Times and CNN ... wants out there!