I am not sure I agree. Certainly these girls do not conform to the standard scenario usually associated with trafficking, but if you look at it dispassionately, Epstein had a taste for young girls, he had friends willing to procure them for him. Most were in their early teens (by definition), usually from disadvantaged back grounds, who were initially offered work that on the surface seem respectable enough, but were gradually drawn in to providing sexual servicest, they were then flown out to islands he wholly owned with no escape, to provide sexual services to Epstein and his friends. Flown elsewhere in the world to do the same. They actually had very little ability to walk away. They were like butterflies in a net
The methodsthat Epstein and his procurers used were not that different to those used by various gangs in cities like Oxford and Rochdale, just done by rich men with private jets and private islands.
On the question of age of consent, I am less sure, someone having sex with a 17 year old is quite legal in the UK, but if the 17 year old has been flown to the UK by their American pimps. How else do you describe Epstein and allegedly, Maxwell? You are again in a trafficking situation. These girls, young and ignorant, are in a foreign country, taken there by their pimps to offer sexual services to the pimp's friends. If they had the ability to walk away most would have, how many 15 - 19 year old girls from a limited background could do that?
Just because someone can do expensively and in style what we normally associate with crime and criminality, does not change the fact that they are trafficking these girls as much as any Albanian people smuggler.