In 2002 while on a business trip to the New York City area I picked up a copy of a local newspaper and started to read it. Something in the advertisement section caught my eye.

From what I recall the heading of the add read “Sugar Daddies Wanted”. It followed with a line that read something like, your successful and you’ve worked hard so you deserve to have a sugar baby at your disposal. In it there was a toll-free number to call to get hooked up.

I could barely believe what I was reading disturbed me especially as we had three daughters at the time that were sugar baby age.

Regarding Jeffrey Epstein and the men who trafficked, molested and raped all of those innocent young women and girls I’m sure they all believed that they deserved to have a sugar baby at their disposal even if it was against those young women’s will.

Sadly, such treatment of women is nothing new. I know something about it because my own father besides having call girls brought into his office in NYC also raped and molested my four sisters, two of which lived with us and two from previous marriages one of which lived with us for a brief period of time prior to her leaving after he attacked her.

Sadly, I did not become aware of their abuse at his hands until long after his death as it was all kept as a dirty family secret by him, my mother and sisters who were afraid to speak up or in my mother’s case in order to protect “the family’s good name”.

My half-sister admitted about ten years ago that when she returned home to live with her aunt after leaving our home all those years ago that she informed her of what happened. Sadly, the response she received was, we can’t report this to the authorities or your father will lose his job and the family will lose their source of income.

Were my sisters lives negatively impacted by what happened to them? They most certainly were just as the survivors of the Epstein events have been.

The worst part of it all is that all so often as it has been with so many of the women and young girls who suffered at the hands of those men as well as young boys and men who also suffered such abuse, a majority of those crimes have gone unpunished.

There has been a great deal of news reports of the survivors speaking out and demanding the Epstein files be released. I hope they are so those who committed those atrocities, many of whom are most likely wealthy and prominent leaders of industry and politics so the survivors can finally get justice. hopefully with it change in how women are treated in the future.

Recently, a news anchor referred to such men as being misguided. While I respect her as a journalist, I must disagree with her label of them. In truth they are in a word evil. So are those who protect those men and try to discredit those who call them out.

Hopefully, one day justice will be served for those survivors and those “Sugar Daddies” will be forced to change their ways.

Thanks for checking in. Paul