An anti-human trafficking campaigner from Tennessee says he was found hogtied and blindfolded on Epstein Island Sunday after he went there to investigate the dead pedophile’s crimes.
Benjamin Owen, the founder of Memphis-based nonprofit We Fight Monsters, was arrested and charged with trespassing when police in the US Virgin Island found that he had been trussed up by caretakers on the island, WREG reported.
A worker on Little Saint James — the legal name for Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious sex haven — told police Owen shoved him and his pregnant girlfriend to the ground when they tried to stop him from taking pictures, according to the outlet.
Owen said he was “attempting to do some research” on the island, but denied the claim that he shoved a pregnant woman, he said in a statement to WREG.
He said he was “kidnapped” by a woman who manages and lives on the island, and he thanked the Virgin Islands Police Department for “rescuing me from that debacle.”
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