Over 1000 victims say they were abused at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. What are we doing to hold them accountable?
- An interview with elementary-level questioning by a Justice Department official, which was clearly nothing more than an attempt to ease public outrage, rather than pursue justice.
- Moved Maxwell, the primary facilitator of the abuse, from a maximum-security prison to a much lower security prison, some have described as comparable to a “camp.”
- Provided no transparent accountability for the sex buyers who abused these young women and children.
This kind of behavior leaves survivors feeling forgotten. As though the most traumatic moments of their lives are not worthy of justice.
NCOSE Survivor Services Coordinator, Teresa J. Helm, who is herself a survivor of abuse by Epstein and Maxwell, has been pioneering this fight for justice. She describes the pain that stays with her, years later:
"This woman changed the entire trajectory of my life," said Helm, in reference to Maxwell. "She changed something within me that I will never get back."
Helm recently spoke at a bipartisan rally in Washington, D.C., where survivors came together to demand justice.
But the trauma that Epstein and Maxwell survivors have experienced has been continuously discounted by both a justice system that has not pursued accountability and the media focusing on sensationalism instead of survivor voices.
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