The statement that was released by the Justice Department and the FBI today, July 7th, 2025, is a document that will live in infamy. It betrays not only the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his ilk of predators, but it also betrays every American who believes that children shouldn't be molested with impunity.
It is now woefully obvious that the government has covered up the crimes of Epstein's co-conspirators, and the cover-up of a crime is aiding and abetting that crime. By not indicting Epstein's co-conspirators, our government is aiding and abetting child trafficking. A government that aids and abets such horrific crimes against children has gravely failed its citizens. This horrid fact affects every American—whether they live in Iowa, New York, or California.
Epstein trafficked underage girls for 25 years, and his child trafficking epitomizes a pandemic in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 25% of underage girls and 5% of underage boys in the US experience child sexual abuse, which translates into more than 50 million Americans. The Epstein case is an issue that involves justice for all survivors of sexual exploitation in the United States, because of the sheer multitude of Americans who have been molested and trafficked with impunity.
In addition to the CDC’s staggering statistics about the number of Americans who have been molested as minors, the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the number of sex trafficked children and women in the US is between 240,000 and 325,000 every year. According to the 2023 Federal Human Trafficking Report, only 664 individuals nationwide were charged with child sex trafficking in 2023. And although millions of images of child rape material infest the internet, according to the US Sentencing Commission only 1,375 individuals in the US were convicted of crimes entailing child rape material in 2023.
As these numbers demonstrate, only an infinitesimal fraction of 1% of child sexual abuse and trafficking victims actually see justice. Our government and society have woefully failed the victims of child sexual abuse. If we allow the Justice Department to be unresponsive to victims in the Epstein case, a proven child sex trafficking case, that sends a message to millions of victims that they have no voice and no hope for justice. Victims in the US and around the world need to see justice in the Epstein child trafficking case.
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