Channel 4 News said its investigation, released on Tuesday, found “more than half a dozen claims that young women and girls are alleged to have been targeted, trafficked, groomed, or abused in the UK” by Epstein and Maxwell, “over a period spanning more than a decade.”
The report said the alleged offenses include sexual assault and rape.
Epstein, a multi-millionaire and convicted pedophile who was charged by US federal prosecutors of sex trafficking, died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial. Medical examiners said the cause of the 66-year-old’s death was suicide by hanging.
Maxwell, a British socialite and former associate of Epstein’s could see trial in New York in the fall. Federal prosecutors say she recruited and groomed a 14-year-old girl to engage in sex acts with Epstein from 2001 to 2004.
She had also been previously charged by federal prosecutors with conspiracy and enticing minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, and the transportation of minors to…