Epstein’s victim was asked: Do you know you committed a crime?

The Jeffrey Epstein saga began — and could have ended — in Palm Beach County in 2006. The Palm Beach Post sued in 2019 to find out why it didn’t. Now, secret documents detailing what happened 18 years ago, when Epstein was charged with just one count of prostitution, are public.

A Palm Beach County prosecutor, presenting his case against Jeffrey Epstein before a grand jury in 2006, asked one of two teenage victims testifying whether she was aware she had “committed a crime,” according to secret trial records released Monday in a Palm Beach Post lawsuit.

Juror members echoed the accusatory tone of Assistant State Attorneys Lanny Belohlavek and Mary Ann Duggan, asking questions that sounded more like condemnation.

One of the jurors asked the girl, “Do you have any idea, deep down, that you—what you’re doing is wrong?” Victim: “Yes. I did.”

Juror: “Have you set yourself a goal to never do it again?”

Victim: “Yes.”

Juror: “And you are fully aware of what you are doing to your reputation?”

Victim: “Yes. Yes.”

Belohlavek: “Do you realize that you have committed a crime?”

Victim: “I am here now.”

The Post sued the newspaper for the materials after a 2019 investigation found that then-Palm Beach County District Attorney Barry Krischer undermined the credibility of his own case against Epstein in 2006. According to the district attorney’s documents, his office never spoke with any of the victims, and when Epstein’s high-profile defense attorneys came to town, his office stopped communicating regularly with police.

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Read The Post’s 2019 investigation: How Jeffrey Epstein’s Early Prosecutors Failed His Victims by Viewing Them as Prostitutes

In a highly unusual move, Krischer convened a grand jury to consider criminal charges against Epstein. During the proceedings, sources told The Post, prosecutor Belohlavek interviewed only two victims. Belohlavek then challenged the testimony of her own witnesses.

The victims, including a 14-year-old girl, stood up to a man who was friends with former presidents including Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.

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The grand jury charged Epstein with just one felony — solicitation of prostitution, which would have been a potential penalty for “John” to proposition an adult sex worker. The mysterious finding does not address the fact that police say they found multiple instances of him sexually abusing about two dozen young women and underage girls.

Palm Beach police believed the crimes were more serious. They found five minors who were victims and whose accusations could have led to criminal charges under the law at the time. Seventeen witnesses, many of whom were 16 or 17 when Epstein abused them, could back up their stories, which were strikingly similar.

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The charges recommended by police could have put Epstein in prison for decades. He ended up spending 13 months in prison and was out on parole six days a week, 12 hours a day.

The outcome of the grand jury proceedings and another prostitution charge to which Epstein pleaded guilty allowed him to traffic, rape and molest underage girls for another 11 years after his guilty plea. An attorney for one of the victims estimates that Epstein abused at least 500 victims.