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the girls, as I said around 23, 24 something along those lines, they were underage; they were under the age of consent in Florida.
And so each and every one of those events was a crime being perpetrated -- and let's be clear, not just being perpetrated by Epstein, but by other people who were involved there at the mansion.
And so what the Palm Beach Police Department was putting together was that this mansion in Florida was the next of sexual abuse of young girls here in Florida that involved literally, in this period of time, more than a hundred events that they were able to document of sexual abuse. When you put that together with the pattern or practice that was being revealed there, there were hundreds of acts of sexual abuse going on in the mansion.
But then what becomes -- and in this is where I indicated the answer would continue on -- the problem was that the evidence was starting to show that this was a much broader series of events. For example, there were flight logs showing that Mr. Epstein was then flying with underaged girls and those flight logs, you know, as the flight logs began to develop, for example, we have seen -- I know in the last day or two here, one
underage girl was Virginia Roberts who is on the flight,
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