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Some of the alleged victims recanted earlier statements detailing violence.

Baroness Lawrence said: "Any person who expresses views like these and does not recant is an obvious danger to society and must remain in custody."

The incident brought public scrutiny to the university’s police department but ended when Perkins recanted the story.

But in a 2008 interview with a US historian, she recanted the statement, reportedly saying: "That part's not true."

Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had valuable and salient Epstein information sitting on her desk, but she later recanted when she was apparently told to do so.