Epstein sex trafficking survivor speaks out in Long Beach, calling for release of files

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A survivor of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein spoke out in Long Beach on Monday. She and several others are calling for the full release of the case files tied to his crimes.

The push for the Trump administration's Justice Department to release all of the Epstein files moved to Long Beach on Monday, where the ranking member of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shared a news conference with a woman who says she was sexually abused as a child by the infamous financier.

Representative Robert Garcia stood in the Long Beach Civic Center Plaza with Annie Farmer, a Long Beach woman who was molested by Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, when she was just a high school student.

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"He flew me to New Mexico under the guise of meeting to plan for an educational trip he would pay for me to take," Farmer said. "It was there that he and Maxwell abused me. At just 16 years old, I was quite confused by what happened. I didn't understand it and I told no one."

Epstein is the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who took his own life in jail in 2019. Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence.

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Ten women who say they were victimized by billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein demanded that Congress and President Donald Trump release the FBI's Epstein files.

Epstein has long been rumored to have kept a secret client list of celebrities and politicians who frequented his estate in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Garcia says, despite a subpoena, the Justice Department under the Trump Administration has refused to release the entire collection of Epstein files. That is a complete reversal from what Trump had promised while campaigning for the presidency, and something congressional Democrats are pushing for Trump to honor.

"The president has the power to bring justice and transparency by releasing the full files, and we're asking him just to live up to his promise during the campaign, which was to release the full files," Garcia said. "That's all that we want."

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