Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have condemned the US justice system.
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have condemned the US Justice Department’s release of files about the disgraced financier, with one saying, “A five-year-old could have done a better job.”
Jess Michaels claims she was raped by Epstein after meeting him as a 22-year-old professional dancer in 1991 in his penthouse.
Speaking to Sky News, Jonathan Samuels said, ‘But the world He said he hoped “eventually there will be justice” but added that there was “extreme condemnation and then extreme disregard for (not) amends”.
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“There’s extreme condemnation and then extreme disregard,” Jess Michaels said.
Lawyers for survivors have criticised the deletion of personal information from the Epstein files released Friday by the U.S. Justice Department, revealing the identity of at least one woman who did not previously come forward with allegations.
Ms Michaels said, “A five-year-old child could have done a better job revising these files with colour-coded crayons. It’s a shame that our Justice Department has cited this as its best work.”
“The damage this Department of Justice has done is shocking by the way it released survivors’ personal information when their virtually sole job was to redact the names of survivors.”
Ms Michaels added, “I was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt that this was simply negligent incompetence.
“But now it seems its purpose is to intimidate survivors, punish survivors, stigmatise survivors, and then not actually convict the perpetrators.”
Survivor says files redacted by ‘powerful people’
Another survivor, Lisa Phillips, agreed that the US Justice Department’s latest release of the Epstein files cut a lot of “people, powerful people… who were there” with the disgraced financier.
“We need to be able to see who those people are,” he said.
Lisa Phillips
The US Justice Department said in a court filing on Monday that it was “in the process of removing documents that were inadvertently exposed and contain victim-identifying information”.
The survivors called Mendelson and Andrew to testify.
The latest release of the files contains further revelations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein.
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Both men have always denied wrongdoing.
“Anyone who spent any significant time with Jeffrey Epstein should be called to testify before Congress,” Ms Michaels said.
Ms Phillips, who said she once met Andrew in the pool at Epstein’s Island, said, “Everybody wants to hear his testimony.”
She added, “I would be the first person to want to hear about that testimony.”
Epstein died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
