Virginia Guiffre has died

[OneWiseSquid]

So tragic, it appears she took her own life after the strain of recent years and all the trauma that must have accompanied it. So desperately sad.

I hope she's at peace now.

I went and had a look at her stories and she has posted one saying something like ‘When the lies catch up with you there is only one way out’ on a story about Virginia’s suicide. It’s horrific.

To be perfectly honest, her parents should be held most at fault. The two people who have most power to protect a child clearly didn't give a shit at all. Based on her biography, she came from a "troubled" family. She was living with two stepbrothers from age 4 and repeated abused by a family friend from age 7. She ran away and was homeless by 14. She eventually reconciled with her father who was working at Mar a Lago and thus got her the job. There is no mention at all of where her mother is or what role she played in Virginia's life.

Andrew's involvement in the whole thing was reprehensible but a lot of people seem to believe it single handedly caused her trauma, when that wasn't necessarily the case. She had already been severely abused and traumatised before she met him, and most likely afterwards as well. He was one encounter out of many. Why aren't the names of those other men public? Who was the family friend who abused her when she was just 7? Why did her parents not put a stop to that and instead let her run away?

I wonder too where her parents were. What did they think she was getting up to travelling the world mixing with multi millionaires.

I always prefer to keep the focus on those who sexually abused her, having dysfunctional parents who may have their own trauma does not negate the action those willing to take advantage. I speak as someone who at times had a mother through prescription drugs dependent and a father who drank to cope had a neglectful childhood, but my childhood experience was nothing compared to the abuse my mother went through as a child.

No, the people most at fault are the ones who sexually abused her and then paid her off to keep quiet.

I am so pleased that we have managed to create a kind and understanding thread about Virginia. I hope she somehow reconciled with both of her parents, as has been said, we don't know what their backstory was. Men like Epstein are adept at exploiting situatuons where people are vulnerable.

With respect, I don't think that blamingthe parents is fair. When a child is sexually abused, it has massive ripple effects throughout the family. The parents were victims of each abuser too and they may have been unable to protect her. People who sexually abuse children from the position of a family friend are likely to have groomed the whole family in order to gain access to a child.

The whole thing is a sad and sorry situation. Virginia and her whole family deserved better.