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the first step in discovering the names of those girls,
not just for purposes of moving this prosecution along,
but if we could identify the names of some of these
other girls who had been abused we could provide help to
them, services to them.
So this was a first step in those kinds of
developments or what I hoped to be those kinds of
developments.
Q. So is it fair to say that as of December
30th, 2014, you hoped you would be able to develop
evidence showing that Alan Dershowitz had abused other
minors?
A. No. What I had hoped to find was the name of
the girl or the girl who would be willing come forward
and testify so that we could put them into the case. I
mean, let's be clear. This -- we are talking about
sexual abuse and it's not just a matter of knocking on
somebody's door and saying, hey, would you tell me how
you were sexually abused by this very powerful person
who was working with an international sex trafficking
ring to do this, just -- just right out of the blue or
call somebody up on the phone.
This is difficult and tricky business. The
Federal Government had been trying to do this for years,
and Mr. Edwards and I had been trying to do it too, so
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