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I'm surprised it was just her. Andrew, in the clutches of Epstein-Maxwell, only ended up compromised by _one_ 17yr old? I'd have expected some seriously awful chain of (much younger) victims, enough for the ghouls to blackmail the Queen and the Royals as an institution. Enough to get some leverage over the British establishment.
As it stands, "17yrs old" doesn't really engender the kind of shrieking and howling that Americans do online, in Britain. We've had Ginger genius Chris Evens, tie the knot with Billie (sp?) when she was barely over 16. And of course Mandy Smith (14) marrying Bill Wyman ('stones).
Basically, he screwed a girl who was young enough to have been his daughter, who was probably younger than his daughter! It's tacky, cringe, immoral ... just not criminal or that shocking.
The Sex trafficking angle is the real moral evil, here. He was exploiting someone who was being sex trafficked. That's the evil. That would probably have carried a prison term, in England.
Even here, Virginia seems to have gotten past whatever ordeals she suffered. And given the conditions on the settlement, probably has some informal agreements with those that trafficked her.
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