Letter: "Where are the voices of the Epstein/Maxwell survivors? Why aren't their stories front and center?" [View all]

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https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2025/08/11/letter-where-are-voices/

While most traffickers are men, women also recruit and abuse. These women often start as “trusted adults,” luring victims with promises of hope. Ghislaine Maxwell was one of these women. She posed as a savior but delivered countless girls into the hands of her partner, participating in their abuse and showing no remorse.

One of her victims, Virginia Giuffre, said it best:
“You spotted me at the Mar-a-Lago Hotel in Florida, and you made a choice… You and he abused me together for the first time. Together, you did unthinkable things that still have a corrosive impact on me to this day.”

Maxwell lied under oath. She is not a trustworthy source. And yet, reports now say she was moved to a lower-security prison after a meeting with a high-profile political figure, one who used to serve as the personal lawyer to the sitting U.S. president. These actions are not normal. They are unprecedented.

We should all be asking: Where are the voices of the survivors? Why aren’t their stories in the headlines?

Maxwell was just as much of a trafficker and rapist as Epstein was. And she was just as much of a buddy to Trump as Epstein. They socialized for years, and now Trump has arranged a sweetheart deal like the deal Epstein got in 2006. Despite the fact that she recruited and raped countless children. This is a friend of our president, someone who he "wishes well."