GLOBAL CHILD TRAFFICKING TO THE RICH AND FAMOUS #SaveChildren The swamp runs deep and across international borders.....how many Australians will loose sleep over this arrest? TOO MANY! Acting US lawyer for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, announces charges against Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell, the former girlfriend of late financier Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested in the US by FBI officers investigating his sex crimes. Picture: Johannes Eisele/AFP By HENRY ZEFFMAN - THE TIMES - JULY 3, 2020 WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes are laid out in unsparing, vivid detail across a 17-page indictment. Its opening paragraph sums up the case, claiming that from at least 1994 to at least 1997 Ms Maxwell “assisted, facilitated, and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom and ultimately abuse victims known to Maxwell and Epstein to be under the age of 18. “The victims were as young as 14 years old when they were groomed and abused by Maxwell and Epstein, both of whom knew that certain victims were in fact under the age of 18,” the indictment says. GROOMING METHODS: Shopping, undressing, ‘normalising abuse’ The indictment lays out the “means and methods” by which Ms Maxwell allegedly groomed “multiple minor girls” to be abused by Epstein. READ MORE:Heat on Andrew as Maxwell arrested|Is this the world’s most wanted woman?|Andrew may appear in UK court|Epstein’s mates ‘still protecting him’|Andrew ‘used as bait to lure girls’ First, she would “befriend” some of the victims before they were abused: asking them about their lives, their education and their families. Both Ms Maxwell and Epstein would “spend time building friendships” with them, taking them to the cinema or shopping. “Having developed a rapport with a victim,” the indictment alleges, Ms Maxwell would “try to normalise sexual abuse.” She would do this by discussing sexual topics with the underage girls, undressing in front of them or being present when an underage girl was naked. A crucial tactic was Epstein’s offers to pay for travel or education for some of the underage girls. Ms Maxwell, the indictment alleges, encouraged them to accept the offers. As a consequence, “victims were made to feel indebted and believed that Maxwell and Epstein were trying to help them”. Often, Ms Maxwell was present “during minor victims’ interactions with Epstein, including interactions where the minor victim was undressed or that involved sex acts with Epstein”, the indictment claims. Having an adult woman there “helped put the victims at ease”. The indictment alleges Ms Maxwell would massage Epstein in front of underage girls, and encourage the girls to massage him themselves — “including sexualised massages during which a minor victim would be fully or partially nude”. Many of these massages, the indictment said, “resulted in Epstein sexually abusing the minor victims”. On some occasions, Ms Maxwell was allegedly present for and took part in the sexual abuse. Some of these instances took place “in the context of massages which developed into sexual encounters”. Epstein’s abuse took the form, “among other things”, of touching the victims’ breasts and genitals, using a vibrator on them, instructing them to touch him while he masturbated and directing them to touch his genitals. MONEY: 15 bank accounts containing millions According to the US authorities’ detention memo, filed at court to resist any application for bail, Ms Maxwell had “an extraordinary incentive to flee” because of her ready access to large amounts of money and extensive international connections. The document said that the FBI had identified 15 bank accounts linked to Ms Maxwell since 2016 and was still looking for others. It added: “During that period the total balances of those accounts have ranged from a total of hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $US 20 million. During the same period the defendant engaged in transfers between her accounts of hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time.” Large amounts of money were moved in 2019, including transfers of $US 500,000 in March 2019 and $US300,000 in July 2019. Last year she had a number of foreign bank accounts with balances totalling more than dollars 1 million. Between 2007 and 2011 amounts of up to dollars 20 million were transferred to her from accounts linked to Epstein then moved again into other accounts held by an alleged accomplice. Read on... The Times https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/ghislaine-maxwell-graphic-indictment-outlines-how-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-madam-tried-to-normalise-sexual-abuse/news-story/177b473b249e7b765f45b0a4e261ecca