New information emerges on 12-year-old "Maria" kidnapped when she was 11 and ended up being allegedly raped by Epstein & Trump
By Wayne Madsen and Andrew Kreig (please note: the date of this article is unclear)
New information has emerged in the joint Wayne Madsen Report/Justice Integrity Project investigation of the "Maria" case. Maria was temporarily held for ransom in 1993, according to witnesses speaking to police.
As we previously reported, Katie Johnson alleged in federal lawsuits that Donald Trump and his friend, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, raped her when she was 13 in New York City in 1994. Johnson's alleged also that the two men raped a 12-year old — only identified as "Maria." Our investigation discovered that Maria had been abducted from Waterbury, Connecticut in March 1993 when she was 11.
Eventually, Maria ended up at "parties" at a midtown Manhattan townhouse owned by Epstein's billionaire friend Les Wexner where underage girls were allegedly sexually assaulted by Trump and Epstein.
We previously reported that Maria's kidnappers were involved in a child trafficking ring that provided abductees to wealthy individuals like Trump and Epstein. Lawyers for Trump and Epstein have sought to deny or otherwise downplay the claims.
Our new information is that Maria was reported missing by her late mother to the Waterbury Police on March 20, 1993, at 11:30 pm. However, Maria was actually abducted the previous day, March 19, authorities said, creating a gap between the kidnap and the mother's report of it to authorities.
Update: The New Yorker, Donald Trump, a Playboy Model, and a System for Concealing Infidelity, Ronan Farrow, Feb. 16, 2018. One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.
Maria was last seen on March 19 by a young girl in the predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood. The girl said she saw Maria talking to a man who turned out to be a Colombian national known by the nickname of "Papito," which means "little daddy" in English. Later, the man claimed that he once lived in Maria's neighborhood but he was not in Waterbury at the time of the alleged conversation with Maria but was in New York "with his family."
The Waterbury Police Department missing person report states that Maria was last seen outside of Nash's Pizza, a corner eatery located in the neighborhood where she lived with her mother and step-father.
Through a local prostitute with a drug habit, Giordano would arrange trysts with the hooker's daughter and niece on days when the mayor knew they were not in school.
Maria also experienced high absenteeism from her Chase Elementary School in Waterbury: 49 days in 1992 and 20 days in 1993, up until her abduction in March of that year. At the time of Maria's abduction, Giordano (shown below right in his mugshot) was a state representative.
As is the case today, Waterbury in 1993 had a major problem with drugs, particularly in the Puerto Rican community.
The investigation of Maria's abduction was by members of the Waterbury Police Narcotics Unit. We have discovered that detectives with both the Youth Division and Narcotics Unit were interested reports that cash loans for the purchase of drugs involved adult individuals in Maria's circle of relatives and family friends.
Furthermore, there were reports of a ransom demand that was apparently made by Maria's kidnappers with two separate figures mentioned: $1,960 and $2,000. The ransom information was passed to police by the vice-principal of Wallace Middle School in Waterbury. The vice-principal obtained the information from students at the school who knew Maria's family.
Officially, the case of Maria has seen no new leads.
However, Katie Johnson's lawsuits against Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, which mentioned Maria as an alleged underage rape victim of both men, have lit a raging fire under what has been a very cold case.
As one curiosity, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was the lone "no" vote in the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19, 2017 on an anti-human trafficking bill that had unanimously passed the Senate in September 2017.
Gaetz is pictured above in a 2008 Driving Under the Influence arrest mugshot.
He is shown here in his official photo as member of Congress representing the Walton Beach region in his state's far west Panhandle,
Gaetz has emerged as the chief congressional critic of Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Mueller (shown at right), who has been alerted to the Katie Johnson-Maria story by anti-trafficking activists.
To reward Gaetz, Trump has invited the first-term congressman to accompany him on Air Force One to Florida this coming weekend.
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NOTE:
The authors of the above article, who are Wayne Madsen and Andrew Krieg, tried going to the authorities. However, the reality of these horrific crimes is how they are covered-up.
As it turns out the town Maria lived in was already well acquainted with pedophiles in positions of power.
From these authors:
We previously reported on the case of Waterbury Mayor Phil Giordano, an aspiring national Republican leader who ran in 2000 for the U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Joseph Lieberman, who was concurrently running for vice president.
Giordano also had GOP vice presidential ambitions. Giordan is shown below at the far right in a 2000 photo with Connecticut Gov. John Rowland (center), who was another Waterbury Republican and future convict (on corruption charges).
Giordano was arrested in 2001 and charged with the repeated sexual assault of two female minors, ages 8 and 10. Some of the assaults took place in the mayor's office, others occurred in his official car.
So that when they attempted to get a) information and b) find a way to help Maria, they met with strong resistance.
WANT TO HELP?
Then please understand this is not a political party issue. It is not blue vs red.
There are pedophiles on both sides of the political fence and cross physical country borders, too.
If you see a child on the street talking to an older person or who seems a little nervous, do not be afraid to step in and ask the child if he or she knows this person. I have done this. I’ve run out of a vehicle and straight toward a person—child or adult—who seems to be in trouble. Save someone when you have a chance—because in this case, as with most, the child if he or she survives this horrific abuse will never be the same.
See something? Do something. Sure, call the police if you want to, but I know from first hand experience the police did not come to my rescue when I was kidnapped—although I called 9-1-1 twice.
It’s up to us, folks.
It’s beyond appalling that Trump is blatantly getting away with a multitude of crimes and people still want to vote for him. Do you think Maria is still alive? She would be about 43 now. I wish she could be found and speak up publicly.
I could not help but add from Graydon Carter's former vehicle Vanity Fair," "Steven Mnuchin’s Wife Louise Linton Made a Movie About a “Bisexual Sociopath” Who Eats a Man’s Balls." https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/louise-linton-me-you-madness