Nearly 23 Epstein survivors have been threatened, harassed, and intimidated since being exposed, the outlet reported on Monday. Along with seeing cars parked outside their homes, survivors say they’re receiving online threats, creepy phone calls, and photographs of their homes; and at least 10 say they’ve obtained weapons as a result.
“I’m just paranoid all the time,” Marina Lacerda—who was sexually abused by Epstein at 14, and who purchased a gun to keep by her when she sleeps—told the outlet. She said that after she was named nearly 50 times in the files, she was accused of being both a liar and prostitute, and that she’d deserved what happened to her. Her daughter, 12, was also asked by schoolmates whether she was Epstein’s kid.
Lacerda was one of at least 43 victims who were improperly exposed by the DOJ in its February dump, in what a
lawyer called “literally thousands of mistakes.” “We are getting constant calls for victims because their names, despite them never coming forward, being completely unknown to the public, have all just been released for public consumption,” he told press at the time.
The DOJ has
fallen short of apologizing for its blunders—and in February, former Attorney General Pam Bondi
flat-out ignored victims when they stood behind her during a testimony with the House Judiciary Committee. Instead, shortly after the files’ release, the department
admitted it made redaction errors—though it’s clearly not taken appropriate steps since.
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