I'm sorry but, while I agree that having sexual relations with teenage girls is immoral, these little 16-17 year old massage sessions that led to other things are hardly what got our blood boiling about Epstein and his island.
We've seen video images of pre-pubescent children in a dungeon beneath that place. We've heard of torture. If this is the entirety of the case against Maxwell--that she helped groom post-pubescent practically adults already teenagers to sleep with her wealthy boss, then I don't really know what to hope for out of this. Send her to jail for a few years, yeah. But without the charges of actually trafficking, raping, and torturing pre-pubescent children why the fuck should I honestly care?
Sorry but teenage girls have sex with adult men all the time and while the men belong in jail, the girls usually grow up just fine, sometimes even very proud of themselves for their accomplishment. Until they cry about it a few years later hoping to capitalize financially or socially. If that's all this case is about it's just gonna be a fart in the wind.
Actually, 16 years old is the age of consent in most U.S. states. In some states it's 17, and only in 12 states is the age of consent 18. Believe it or not...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States
I'm aware. But the age of consent only applies to people less than 10 years older than them if I'm not mistaken. Again though, even more reason not to care about this case if that's all it's about.
Those types of age difference restrictions vary from state-to-state, but yes, those exist in some of the states. In this case, aside from the consent issues, is the fact that they are dealing with federal law (not state). It seems 18 is, for the most part, where federal law draws the line. But still, I get your point – the victims in the Maxwell trial/charges are not the very young children that we know of, and the sick events that took place on Epstein's island seem to still be left in the dark. Hopefully, we'll get there yet though.