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The Sexual Abuse Epidemic Is Much More Mundane Than Ghislaine Maxwell

Americans tend to focus on the most outrageous crimes because they give cover to more everyday misconduct

Audrey Strauss, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, at a press conference announcing the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell on July 2. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Nearly a year after the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and serial sexual abuser of young girls, the country is still…