Epstein raped 18-year-old while on work release from jail as a sheriff's deputy stood guard outside: Lawsuit
A woman has filed a lawsuit against convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein claiming that he sexually assaulted her at the age of 18 after she was hired to work for him while he was still in prison.
The plaintiff, Katelyn Doe, alleged in her lawsuit that she was hired by the Florida Science Foundation, the non-profit run by the disgraced billionaire, in March 2009.
However, she says she was soon coerced by the foundation's officials into performing sex acts for Epstein—at times with another young woman—inside the offices of the non-profit while he was there on work release, Daily Mail reported.
The lawsuit claims that "she was flown to be legitimately employed by Defendant Florida Science, but learned once there that Jeffrey Epstein and those with whom he conspired to transport [Katelyn] knew that this fraudulent representation was made to cause [Katelyn] to engage in commercial sex acts with Jeffrey Epstein at his 'work release' office."
About three months into his 18-month prison sentence at the Palm Beach County Jail after pleading guilty to state prostitution charges, Epstein was allowed by Sheriff Ric Bradshaw to leave jail for up to 12 hours a day, six days a week to work at his non-profit.
While he worked inside the office, a sheriff’s deputy was always supposed to stand guard outside the office.
The off-duty deputies, who were on Epstein's payroll, were supposed to take detailed logs of who entered and exited the office while they were posted outside.
The accuser claimed that, after she signed the sheet provided by the sheriff's office, the "model prisoner" was allowed to rape her under their noses.
According to the lawsuit, Epstein first met Katelyn when she was 17 years old in New York City and was suffering from an eating disorder as well as other medical ailments. The investor promised to pay for “expensive necessary surgeries” that she required.
While she was still a virgin, Epstein manipulated her into having sex with him, to which she complied from the fear that her refusal to acquiesce to his demands might make him rescind his offer of paying for her treatments.
Katelyn was then flown to Epstein’s compound in the U.S. Virgin Islands where she was again coerced into having a sexual relationship with the pedophile, an arrangement that continued until 2014.
"While on the private Island of Little St. James, despite having knowledge of Plaintiff’s prohibition of intercourse, Jeffrey Epstein pressured, manipulated, intimidated and forced Plaintiff to engage in intercourse and lose her virginity to him, resulting in him retaining even greater control over Plaintiff," stated the court filing.
Katelyn also claimed that after completing his prison sentence in 2010, Epstein was allowed to travel freely between New York and Palm Beach, Florida, although he was supposed to be under house arrest, as per his agreement.
"In 2010, after having completed his 'jail' sentence, and while Jeffrey Epstein was on house arrest in Florida, he was permitted to travel to New York while wearing his ankle monitoring device," the lawsuit claimed.
"During one such trip, Plaintiff was made to engage in sexual intercourse with Jeffrey Epstein in exchange for financial compensation."
Lastly, the lawsuit also stated that Epstein forced Katelyn to marry another woman so that the other woman could remain in the United States despite not being a U.S. citizen. That woman allegedly went on to recruit young women for the pedophile to have sex with, Fox News reported.