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The New Mexico Reckoning: Local Survivors Emerge From Epstein’s Shadow (4/27/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. One of the most frustrating things when it
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comes to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in his crimes
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is the lack of interest that was shown in New Mexico.
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And back then, I told you that there were girls
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that were abused in New Mexico who were local, and unfortunately,
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none of those girls or women had come forward in
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a public manner. Well, now that this new probe has
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been launched in New Mexico, local survivors are now coming forward.
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And I think that one of the main reasons that
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these women stayed quiet was that the state of New Mexico,
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at least at the time, was basically wrapped around Jeffrey
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Epstein's little finger. I mean, look at all the powerful
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people that were in his circle from the state of
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New Mexico, from Bill Richardson to the Kings to others.
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And when you have that kind of power, that kind
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of pull, it's very different for a girl who's vulnerable,
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or say an indigenous girl to go to the authorities
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and say, you know what, Jeffrey Epstein and his friends
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abuse me. Nobody's going to listen to you, at least
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not back then. But now the tide has turned and
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people are paying attention, and with this new committee that
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has been launched in New Mexico, hopefully more girls and
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women who were abused come forward. And I find it
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pretty ironic that this story is breaking today because yesterday
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when I was over at my parents' house, we were
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talking about New Mexico a little bit, me and my dad,
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and one of the things we've always said is that
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if Epstein was abusing girls in New York high school girls,
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high school girls in Florida, high school girls down in
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the Virgin Islands, what makes anyone think that he wasn't
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going to abuse local high school girls in New Mexico
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as well, especially indigenous girls. And we all know that
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Jeffrey Epstein and his buddies like girls from South America.
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So I don't think it's too big of alip to
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put two and two together. In fact, I think it's
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the most likely scenario. And then, of course we get
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to all of the missing and unaccounted for Indigenous girls
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in the state of New Mexico and it becomes terrifying. Now, look,
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I'm not going to sit here and tell you that
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Jeffrey Epstein and his buddies were responsible for that. I
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don't know, is it a possibility? Most certainly. Is One
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thing that I've learned when it comes to this story
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is I don't discount anything until we have the evidence.
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I mean, how many times have things turned on a
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dime here? And unfortunately we're working behind the eight ball, right.
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We don't have all the information, we don't have all
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the evidence, so we have to piece things together the
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best we can. But I always thought that there were
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more people that were abused in New Mexico, people that
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were local than we ever heard of. And when I
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was down there in New Mexico talking to sources, I
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heard the same thing. And now that this story is
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breaking here on Roy, it's pretty damn interesting. So that said,
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why don't we dive into this article and see what
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Reuters has for us headline? As New Mexico probes Epstein,
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local survivors come forward. This article was authored by Erica
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Stapleton and Andrew Hay. Authorities in New Mexico are trying
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to determine how many local women and girls were abused
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by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein at his isolated
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Zoro Ranch compound. I'm saying in the dozens. Unfortunately, that's
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my estimation, and I'm basing that on what I heard
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from people that lived near the ranch and had access
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to it. These are people that have heard stories, talk
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to people, you know, and they gave me this information secondhand.
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I'm not going to sit here and tell you I
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talked with somebody locally who said that they were abused
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by Jeffrey Epstein. But I did speak to people locally
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who said they know people that were abused. Now, whether
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you choose to believe them or not, that's a whole
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different story, right, But that's what I heard. That's what
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I was told face to face. And considering that these
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sources have been spot on about everything else, I had
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no doubt that they were right about this too. And
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now we're hearing that over a dozen women sought support
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in twenty nineteen in New Mexico due to being abused
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by Jeffrey Epstein. And remember the state thought it was
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a good idea to shut the investigation down. Yeah, let's
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just punt over to the FEDS because they've done such
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a great job in the past. Several individuals have said
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that they were flown to the ranch and abused by
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Epstein and disassociates. To date, only one former Santa Fe
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massage therapist, Rachel Benavetez, was known to be from New Mexico.
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New Mexico Representative Marianna Anaya, who co sponsored the state's
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Truth Commission probe into Epstein, told Reuters that the group
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had been in contact with a number of New Mexico
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residents who say that they were abused at the ranch.
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And it's going to keep coming. I'm telling you right now,
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once you see a crack in the dam, that water
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starts busting through, and I think that we've only begun
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to scratch the surface in New Mexico, and that goes
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for all of us, me included. There's a lot more
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to be uncovered there, and it might necessitate another trip
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for me out to New Mexico. I feel like there's
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a lot of fertile ground here, a lot of information
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that still has not been uncovered, and a lot of
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information that could really help the story forward. And having
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these survivors speak out is going to put a turbocharge
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in it because people now are going to start digging. Previously,
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nobody really cared about New Mexico. When it comes to Epstein,
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they're all focused on the island, all focused on you know,
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New York, but mainly the island, right. But I think
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the real atrocities, the real madness, the real sickness, was
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occurring at this ranch, and I think that there was
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some wild shit happening here. When it comes to science,
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I can confirm that we've been reached out to by
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local alleged victims, Anaya told Reuters in a text message.
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And I think it's just gonna keep going. I think
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we're gonna hear from more women, and they're gonna have
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very similar stories. They were recruited maybe out of local
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high school or event whatever, and they were brought into
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the orbit of Jeffrey Epstein and they were groomed and abused.
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It was the first time that the Commission has acknowledged
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contact with local people who say that they were abused
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at the ranch during the quarter century Epstein owned the property.
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That ranch should have been raided the day Jeffrey Epstein
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was arrested, all of his properties at the same time,
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just like they would have for John Gotti or Diddy.
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So again that brings us to the question what makes
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Epstein so special in the mind of the government, well
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besides the fact that he was an asset for them.
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The state reopened its investigation into alleged child sex trafficking
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at the ranch in February, citing the US Department of
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Justice release of millions of files on Epstein. They included
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an email from a person claiming to be a former
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ranch employee who alleged that Epstein buried the bodies of
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two girls in hills outside the property. And look, again,
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very possible, especially if we're talking about Indigenous girls. What
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you don't think Epstein and his buddies know the deal,
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They most certainly do. There are so many missing Indigenous
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girls in New Mexico they had to start a database
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for it. And if you think those girls are just,
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you know, waking up one day and deciding to leave home,
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you're crazy. Now some of them may be, but the
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vast majority something stinks in New Mexico. Epstein and his
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associates are accused of grooming local teenage girls at his
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New York and Pombei residences. According to core testimony from
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criminal trials, Maria Jose Rodriguez Cadiz, who had so laate
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sexual Assault Services in Santa Fe, the only such support
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center in the region, told Reuters in an interview that
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in twenty nineteen, the year Epstein was arrested and then
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found deadness jail cell, around forty five people approached the
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center to seek information, therapy, and other services in relation
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to alleged sexual abuse at the ranch. So we were
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like five years ahead of this story, but unfortunately nobody
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was listening. I was telling people this years ago, and
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then after my trip to New Mexico, I knew that
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things were a lot worse in that state than we
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were being told. She estimated that between a quarter and
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the half of those contacts were from women who said
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they had been abused at the ranch, although she added
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that the center did not keep detailed records. Dozens of
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people who were in need of information or direct services
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were a lie to the Epstein sex ring were a
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coming forward. Rodriguez Cadi said she attributed the increased contact
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in twenty nineteen to news of Epstein's arrest, as well
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as the increased visibility of the Me too movement against
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powerful perpetrators of sexual abuse. You mean the me too
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movement that largely ignored what was going on. With Epstein.
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I don't recall any of those pink hat people showing
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up for the Glenn Maxwell trial. Epstein's survivors were largely abandoned,
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and it was only a few voices that were, you know,
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speaking up in the dark, going against the grain and
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alerting people that something was seriously wrong. And the loudest
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voices were the survivors themselves. But let's not act like
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me too showed up and helped out. They didn't. In fact,
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this was largely ignored. She said that one of the
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women who approached the center in twenty nineteen filed police
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complaints at the time. The center is co housed with
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Santa Fe Police Department Special Victims Unit, so police reports
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were filed and nothing was done. Once again, nothing was done.
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Not a word about Zoro Ranch when it comes to
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the federal conversation, not a word about what went on there,
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and certainly not a word about the girls who were
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hurt there. And I think a lot of people are
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going to be shocked when they find out just how
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pervasive the abuse was at Zoro Ranch. Nationally, about twenty
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four percent of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to
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police in twenty twenty four, the most recent year for
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which full details exist. According to the US Department of Justice,
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that's just deplorable. Only twenty four percent of rapes and
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sexual assaults were reported, and that's because people think nothing
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will happen. Nobody's gonna believe me. Why would they believe me?
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And in my opinion, it's a sad indictment on our society. Now, look,
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I'm not going to sit here and tell you that
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people don't lie. They do do people make false allegations,
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most certainly, But when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, when
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it comes to what he was up to, I would
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say the reverse is opposite. And the vast majority of
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people that have come forward have told the truth. And
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I think now that the veil is being pulled down
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in New Mexico, people are going to find out just
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how ugly that truth is. All Right, folks, that's going
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to do it for this one. All the information that
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goes with this episode can be found in the description box.