New Delhi, July 24 -- Courtney Wild still had braces on her teeth when Jeffrey Epstein first brought her to his waterfront mansion in 2002. She was fourteen. By the time federal prosecutors in Miami decided that Epstein had done nothing serious enough to warrant federal indictment, she had recruited roughly seventy girls for him - most of them between thirteen and fifteen years old, most from broken homes, most of them willing to do almost anything for two hundred dollars.

seventy miles from his own federal offices. What the two men agreed to that morning was not a prosecution. It was a burial.

The resulting non-prosecution agreement limited Epstein to a guilty plea on two state prostitution charges and thirteen months in a county jail....