New York Post

‘The NYPD let him get away with this’

- Reuven Fenton, Kate Sheehy and Tina Moore

A lawyer for one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers blasted the NYPD on Tuesday for failing to monitor the Level 3 sex offender — and said the department’s flub may have enabled his sick porn stash.

“I’m really, really surprised that the NYPD let him get away with this, knowing he’s a Level 3 sex offender,’’ said lawyer Brad Edwards — referring to an exclusive Post report that police failed to follow up on a judge’s order requiring Epstein to report in every 90 days.

Asked what effect the NYPD’s lack of oversight might have had, the lawyer noted the massive trove of porn — including some allegedly involving children — discovered by authoritie­s in a safe inside the pedophile’s Upper East Side home.

“For one, I doubt that he would have been keeping these pornograph­ic trophies, which is what it seems to be, of thousands of photos of young women in his home if somebody was checking on him and he felt there was some sort of scrutiny and accountabi­lity of being a registered sex offender,’’ Edwards said.

The NYPD said in a statement Tuesday, “Jeffrey Epstein was never in violation of the judge’s order, as he legally changed his residency and was monitored in his new jurisdicti­on in compliance with’’ the law.

But a judge already considered the residency argument by Epstein’s lawyer in 2011 — and rejected it, ruling that the pedophile would still have to adhere to the mandatory requiremen­ts of Level 3 sex offenders, considered the worst and most at-risk of repeating their crimes, while in New York state.

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