Another thing I need explaining to me

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So for months now - or even years - we have heard over and over again that the American Virginia Roberts Giuffre accuses Britain’s Prince Andrew of having sex with her in 2001 when she was 17 and he was 41. Now I haven’t been following this closely but I couldn’t help seeing some of the articles about the case. As far as I have been able to gather, Virginia was abused as a child by a family friend, which wrecked her life, sending her into a spiral of abuse and homelessness. She was later duped into working for Jeffrey Epstein who then allegedly trafficked her to his famous friends. Obviously there are a lot of wrong things going on here, but I fail to see what Prince Andrew has done wrong. He didn’t abuse her as a child. He didn’t traffic her to anyone. If he did have sex with her (and we don’t know for sure that he did, although if he didn’t I wonder why he hasn’t sued her for defamation/slander) then he might have done something ill-advised, but that still wouldn’t make it a crime - the age of consent is (and was then) 16. In the photo we have seen again and again, Virginia is grinning from ear to ear with her arm around Andrew, and she apparently contacted a friend to tell her ‘I got to sleep with Andrew!’ Is that what you’d expect of an abuse victim? I’m confused. If she was a victim of sex trafficking, why did she seem so happy about it at the time? Why hasn’t she gone after the family friend who abused her as a child? All rights reserved. © Text copyright Fleur 2022. Image from Sky news.