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Virginia Giuffre, "Kate" And Sarah Ransome And Their Impact Statements (5/23/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to continue pulling
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the mask off the monster known as Glynn Maxwell, and
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to do that, we're once again going to turn to
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the survivor impact statements that were given during her sentencing. Kate,
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good afternoon, your honor. Thank you for hearing me. I
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believe you've already seen my victim impact statement, so I
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have something else to say at a time when women's
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rights are so callously been discarded. As the mother of
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a young daughter, I fear for the safety and freedom
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of my child. Today offers hope that change is possible.
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Our voices may not have been heard before, but we
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united to bring justice to a common enemy. If we
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cannot stop women who have been raped from being forced
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to bear the children of their rapists, then we must
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take a stand on zero tolerance to those who abuse
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their power to groom and traffic and rape the vulnerable.
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How you do anything is how you should do everything.
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Every single person should have equal value, Every single person
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should have an equal right to be protected. Every single
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child must have their innocence defended. No person should be
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shielded from the consequence of their actions, no matter their
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status or class. Glen's lack of remorse and her blatant
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refusal to take responsibility for her crimes towards us is
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the final insult. Having a difficult childhood is irrelevant to
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the choices she made to traffic and supply women and
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children to Jeffrey Epstein and other powerful men. Despite the
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atrocities perpetrated on me, I have never recruited a child
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or any person to be sexually abused. Someone being a
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hard worker does not excuse sex trafficking of miners. Someone
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starting a nonprofit does not excuse sex trafficking of miners.
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Someone who had a difficult or even an abusive father
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does not excuse sex trafficking of miners. Losing money or
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prestige does not excuse sex trafficking of miners. The lacquer,
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remorse or responsibility taken by Golaine for how she ruined
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the lives of countless women and children is exactly how
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we can tell that she doesn't think what she did
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was wrong. She's not sorry, she would do it again.
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I have known Glane for many years now, and I
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have seen her be kind and generous to me and
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many others until she doesn't get what she wants from
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that person. And then I have seen her stop at
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nothing to enforce her will, a manipulative, cruel, and merciless
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person who only uses kindness to manipulate and generosity to
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seek recognition. Today, for the first time, I stand with
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my sisters, bonded by a trauma that I wish on
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no one to draw a line and to set a
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precedent to say enough is enough, to say no with
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a chorus of voices that you can't ignore. May that
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chorus ring through the years of people still being victimized
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and give them strength. May it echo in the ears
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of the perpetrators to remind them that there are those
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of us who will never stop until we stop them.
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Today is not a happy day. I take no pleasure
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in being part of a world where this is necessary.
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But I'm proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these
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brave women and do what is necessary to stop Glaine,
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to hold her accountable, and for the first time in
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my life not to feel afraid. I cannot have done
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this alone, and I thank those who walked alongside me
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and those who carried me. Today I can look at
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Golaine and tell her that I became what I am
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today in spite of her and her efforts to make
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me feel powerless and insignificant. And I will pass that
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empowerment to my daughter that she may never consider being
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silent when faced with injustice, because she will feel all
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of us standing behind her. Thank you. Next up, Virginia Roberts.
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Good afternoon. Your honor may have pleased the court. This
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statement I am reading on behalf of my client, Virginia Roberts,
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is written to Glenn Maxwell and for all of you
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out there who are trying to rehabilitate Glane Maxwell's reputation.
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Listen up. Twenty two years ago, in the summer of
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two thousand, you spotted me at mar A Lago in Florida,
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and you made a choice. You chose to follow me
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and procure me for Epstein. Just hours later, you and
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he abused me together for the first time. Together. You
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damage me physically, mentally, sexually, and emotionally. Together, you did
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unthinkable things that still have a corrosive impact on me
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to this day. I want to be clear about one
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thing without question. Jeffrey Epstein was a terrible pedophile, but
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I would have never met Jeffrey Epstein. If not for you,
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for me, and for so many others, you opened the
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door to hell and then Golaine, like a wolf in
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sheep's clothing. You use being a female to betray us,
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and you let us all through it. When you did that,
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you changed the course of our lives forever. You joked
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that you were like a new mother to us as
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a woman. I think you understood the damage that you
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were causing, the price you were making us victims pay.
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You could have put an end to the rapes, the molestation,
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the sickening manipulation that you arranged, witnessed, and even took
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part in. You could have called the authorities and reported
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that you were part of something awful. I was young
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and naive when we met, but you knew that, in fact,
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you were counting on it. My life as a young
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person was just beginning. You robbed me of that by
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exploiting my hopes and my ambitions. Glaine, the pain you
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have caused me is almost indescribable because of your choices
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and the world you brought me into. I don't sleep.
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Nightmares wake me at all hours. In those dreams, I
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relive the awful things that you and others did to me,
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and the things that you forced me to do. Those
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memories will never go away. I have trouble meeting new
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people without questioning if somehow they're going to hurt me too.
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There's not a day that doesn't go by that I
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don't ask why Why did you enjoy hurting us so much?
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I worry every single day and night that you will
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get away with it and evade being punished. I will
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worry about that until you're brought to justice. And what
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should that justice look like? Glaine. You deserve to spend
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the rest of your life in prison, in a jail cell.
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You deserve to be trapped in a cage forever, just
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like you trapped your victims. But I want you to
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know that while you tried to break me, you did
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not succeed. Despite you, I've grown into a woman who
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tries to do good in the world, a woman on
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her best days, who feels like she's making a difference.
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My promise to you is as follows. As long as
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you and perpetrators like you continue to pray on the vulnerable,
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I will not stop standing up and speaking out. Together
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with so many others you abused, we will do all
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we can to keep predators from stealing the innocence of children.
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I will never give up. I will never go away.
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If you ever get out of prison, I will be
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here watching you and making sure you never hurt anyone
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else again. Next up, Sarah, Ransom your honor. It's been
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a long journey to bring Maxwell to justice. Although I
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have physically escaped the hideous traps that by Epstein Maxwell
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and other co conspirators, I continue now, seventeen years later,
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to suffer from the horrific trauma that it caused. I
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came to New York at the age of twenty two,
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hoping to attend New York's Fit and work in the
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fashion industry. Soon after arriving, I met an Epstein Maxwell
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recruiter named Natalia Mahlashev. She described him as a kind
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philanthropist who could help me get into fit and provide
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much needed support. Over the next seven to eight months,
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I became, against my will, nothing more than a sex
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toy for the entertainment of Epstein, Maxwell and others. I
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was subjected to sexual predation multiple times per day, both
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in his New York mansion and on his private island
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in the US Virgin Islands. On one of the visits
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to the island, the sexual demands, degradation, and humiliation became
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so horrific that I tried to escape by attempting to
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jump off a cliff into shark infested water. Epstein and
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Maxwell were masters at finding young, vulnerable girls and young
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women to exploit. Upon targeting vulnerable girls or young women,
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they would ingratiate themselves tour giving her compliments and small gifts,
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telling her how special she was. Soon after lulling me
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and others into a false sense of security and comfort,
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they pounced, ensnaring us in the upside down twisted world
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of rape, rape rape. Like Hotel California, you can check
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into the Epstein Maxwell dungeon of sexual hell, but you
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can never leave. The manipulation, intimidation, and emotional abuse used
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to control the victims took many forms. In my case,
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Epstein and Maxwell used my dysfunctional family history, being naive
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visa status, lack of education, and desire to go to
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fit to manipulate, scarein and stare me. She told me
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that I was exceptionally intelligent and that I had the
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real potential to be someone and something in life. One
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day Epstein and Maxwell's strong ties to fit could make
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this happen. With their help, my admission was almost assured,
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but there was always a butt. First I had to
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write my application, which I did, but Maxwell had to
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review it and conveniently always found fault. Then another butt.
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I needed to lose thirty pounds because I was a piglet.
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Maxwell's numerous degrading descriptions of me Epstein and Maxwell put
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me on the strict Atgin's diet while simultaneously sending me
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to a psychiatrist who prescribed antidepressants that caused weight gain.
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It was a classic no win situation, and they knew
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it precisely what human traffickers seek. I never lost the weight,
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My application was never good enough, and it never got submitted.
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I thank the Almighty God that in two thousand and
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seven I managed to escape Lahara by fleeing to the UK.
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Since then, I've been coping as best as I can,
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and frequently experience flashbacks and wake up in cold sweat
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from nightmares from reliving the awful experience. I'm hypervigilant. I
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do not trust people easily. I experience dramatic mood changes.
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I will sometimes start crying uncontrollably for reasons I cannot
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always comprehend. I work hard with several mental health professionals.
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They have diagnosed me with extreme symptoms of anxiety, depression,
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low self esteem PTSD, and tendency to self harm. Despite
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my earnest effort, I have not realized life's true potential professionally,
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nor entered any healthy personal relationships. I've never married, and
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I don't have children, something I always wish for. When
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I was a little girl, I shy away from meeting
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new people, and I have difficulty in making new friends
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because I fear they too could be associated with Epstein
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and Maxwell and their enablers and co conspirators. To this day,
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I attend meetings to treat alcoholism, but I have had
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numerous relapses and I can't always control that. I know
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that only by the grace of God do I continue
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to live. I've attempted suicide twice since the abuse. Both
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You're fatal. Last year, I traveled to New York to
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attend Maxwell's trial. It was therapeutic to hear the testimony
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of the four brave victim waitnesses whose experiences paralleled my own,
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to know that I was not alone and that our
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story was finally being told for the world to hear.
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I'm grateful the jury believe the victims and return to
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guilty verdict, but a question still tears up my soul.
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After all of this, how can this five star general,
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of this enormous sex trafficking conspiracy involving hundreds, if not thousands,
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of vulnerable girls and young women over three decades, continue
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to maintain her innocence. Reflecting on it, I know the
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answer to my questions. Maxwell is today the same woman
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I met almost twenty years ago, incapable of compassion and
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human common decency. Because of her wealth, her social status,
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and connection, she believes herself beyond a reproach above the law.
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Sentencing her to the rest of her life in prison
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will not change that, but it will give the other
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survivors and I a slight sense of justice and help
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us to continue to work to recover from the sex
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trafficking hill she perpetrated. She will never hurt another young
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woman or child again in this lifetime, and for that,
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I am sure to Glane, I say, you broke me
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in unfathomable ways, but you did not break my spirit,
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nor did you dampen my internal flame that now burns
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brighter than ever before. All right, folks, we're gonna wrap
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up right there, and in the next episode, we're gonna
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pick up where we left off. All of the information
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