They weren't actually pedophiles as those girls were late teens. Those teenagers also chose to go to Epstein Island knowing exactly what they were going there for and that they were getting paid big money to do so. They then returned home and recruited their friends to go on the next trip. Kind of like the movie Babysitters.
No doubt what Epstein and Maxwell did was illegal but many of the "victims" are definitely playing up and cashing in on their victimhood.
We live in a time when almost nobody takes responsibility for their own actions. I agree the 'girls' probably knew what was up. This doesn't excuse Epstein and Maxwell's coercing them into basically prostitute themselves.
There are no winners here. The message to young people is that it is okay to fuck up (pun intended) because they can always play the victim and blame someone else for their bad choices. Plus, if they get lucky, they can make some bucks off sharing their experiences and suing the perpetrators. The message to the adults is if you do the deed, you might fry or you might not. Most likely sooner or later you probably will end up paying the piper or hanging yourself in your jail cell while under suicide watch.
I have no proof of this, but my guess is a lot of high profile
people assholes are guilty of participating in this degenerate debacle and have gotten away with it… thus far.
Definition of a pedophile: a person who is sexually attracted to children. One definition of children: young human beings below the age of puberty.
So is an eleven year old person a child? These days, that is difficult to answer since some boys and girls begin puberty at that age. Emotionally and intellectually, they are still children. As thus, they can easily be manipulated by so called adults.