His victims see his death as a lack of justice for them and other accusers.
, officials had been investigating that incident as a possible suicide attempt. A prison official toldreports that he was housed in a special unit with extra security, but he was not under suicide watch.— was set to stand trial next year for allegedly sexually abusing dozens of girls as young as 14 years old in New York and Florida. He pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
Epstein and his employees were accused of scheming to bring girls to his Upper East Side mansion and his home in Palm Beach between the years 2002 and 2005. Heafter his private plane landed on a flight from Paris. And if convicted, the disgraced millionaire would have faced up to 45 years in prison. Epstein’s alleged victims were outraged by the news of his death, and see it as a lack of justice for them and other accusers.
"I am extremely mad and hurt thinking he once again thought he was above us and took the easy way out ... I still can't wrap my head around the fact that's really true," Jena-Lisa Jones, 30, an alleged victim of the accused sex trafficker when she was 14 in Florida, said in a statement."God will have his judgement now."
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