Let me behing with: I an NOT blaming the victims in this case at all. They were children. My wife and I have been discussing this situation , we listened to some of the speeches yesterday.
When they spoke one stated they were introduced to Epstein when she was 14, another at 16, etc.
My question is who introduced them to Epstein at 14,15,16 years old?
I asked my wife yesterday where our daughter was at those ages and we always knew. So where were these kids parents, and who introduced them to Epstein. I never here this discussed. Please keep this appropriate. We are really curious if any of you have different information. Bear Tracker

I have thought the same, the parents need to be held responsible also.

His assistant recruited girls, that was her #1 job

I get the she recruited the girls. But whatvi don't understand is how did the meetings take place even with her. Where, how was this possible. And yes where were the parents?
What is the background of these young ladies? We're they homeless, i figure invited to parties where contact began etc.
We had a principal in our school who was amazing. He left became a superintendent an hour away, and was arrested for child trafficking. We had no clue. So I do get it.

I'n a lot of these rings, the first girls start recruiting the next set and the cycle continues.

Human trafficing. Biden lost something like 300,000 kids from south of the border.

Not everyone is raised in a two-parent, rural household. Some parents don't care where their mid-teenaged kids are either, just as long as they make it home at night.

The "best" of the groomers are masters at deception. For example, your principal.. no one had any idea. I'm sure Ghislaine Maxwell was quite decietful with these kids, their parents, etc. Parents could have saw it as a way for their kids to enter a higher level of society, one they couldn't provide, and went along with it. Who knows? But there are thousands of different ways kids are brought up, their household circumstances, the leniency of their parents, the presence of their parents, etc. There's many unique upbringings that may not make sense because "we didn't do it that way". Right or wrong, that's just how the world is and the groomers know how to pick out the easy and vulnerable.

You may have known where they were but you don’t know what they were thinking. I know a lot of fathers don’t want to hear it but teenaged girls are a mess.

There was a network of child trafficking components at work probably these were most likely at risk youth with poor supervision, addiction cases or runaways making them vulnerable to what was offered or forced on them. Poor choices made them the targets of folks that felt untouchable and above the law and that has been the case so far except for Prince Andrew that’s been reprimanded by Charles.

Bring in a young girl get a reward for it a business for the bottom feeders with no empathy.

I would suspect they would look for "models", they would have them apply and have all the information they needed to find the most susceptible, give them drugs, private flights, etc

Just watch the price is right to see how many hopefuls still flock to Hollywood still hoping to make it big.

Thanks for the responses some really good points and thoughts we had not thought of.

Hobbie Trapper said "teenage girls are a mess". I'll add looking for attention, appreciation, and way too trusting. I don't blame them for being gullible when they haven't experienced the world yet and really have no idea that there are dangerous people to look out for.

No idea that they need to be careful.