A federal judge on Thursday formally dismissed the criminal sex trafficking case against financier Jeffrey Epstein in light of his death in jail earlier this month.
TIME reports that U.S. District Judge Richard Berman on Thursday officially dismissed the Southern District of New York’s case against deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, an SDNY spokesperson has confirmed.
Epstein was arrested in July on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. Federal prosecutors in New York filed charges in the case after renewed attention on a 2008 plea deal in Florida that allowed Epstein to serve only 13 months in prison and leave custody for 12 hours a day, six days a week.
The Independent reports that a number of women who accused disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing them, have appeared in court to powerfully denounce the fact he escaped justice by taking his own life.
Via Reuters / TIME / Independent
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