AFP, WEST PALM BEACH, FloridaA woman who has said she was 14 when she had a sexual encounter with financier Jeffrey Epstein at his mansion sued his estate in Florida court on Monday for coercion, inflicting emotional distress and battery. The lawsuit does not give the woman’s name and only refers to her as “JJ Doe.”The woman went to Epstein’s Florida mansion in 2003 when she was “a vulnerable child without adequate parental support,” the lawsuit said. “Out of fear, plaintiff complied with Jeffrey Epstein’s commands,” the lawsuit said. “During the encounter, plaintiff resisted Jeffrey Epstein’s advances and demands, yet was assured if she complied, then he would stop and it would end soon,” the lawsuit said. The wealthy financier had pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing girls as young as 14 and young women in New York and Florida in the early 2000s.

Source: Taipei Times December 31, 2019 16:41 UTC