ANOTHER VIEW | SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL

Ghislaine Maxwell is no one's victim. But that's the disturbing narrative being peddled in advance of a possible fast track to a presidential pardon.

Convicted of sex trafficking, Maxwell was not a bystander in Jeffrey Epstein's global web of child sex abuse. The British socialite was its architect. She used money and power to lure girls.

She coerced, cajoled, threatened, and with Epstein, molested them, too.

Former Miami Herald journalist Julie Brown pointed out that as a wealthy man, Epstein could have employed high-priced prostitutes. But what he wanted was a supply of underage girls, and Maxwell made sure he got them.

"I have never met a more predatory, terrifying human being in my entire life," said Maria Farmer, one of Epstein's first ac

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