DOJ-OGR-00021617.pdf

Case 22-1426, Document 78, 06/29/2023, 3536039, Page187 of 217 SA-441 72 M6SQmaxS1 1 Despite my earnest effort I have not realized life's 2 true potential professionally, nor entered any healthy personal 3 relationships. I have never married, and I do not have 4 children, something I always wished for when I was a little 5 girl. I shy away from meeting new people and have difficulty 6 making new friends because I fear they too could be associated 7 with Epstein and Maxwell and their enablers and 8 co-conspirators. 9 To this day I attend meetings to treat alcoholism, but 10 I have had numerous relapses, and I cannot always control that. 11 I know that only by the grace of God do I continue to live. I 12 have attempted suicide twice since the abuse -- both near 13 fatal. 14 Last year, I traveled to New York to attend Maxwell's 15 trial. It was therapeutic to hear the testimony of the four 16 brave victim-witnesses, whose experience paralleled my own, to 17 know that I was not alone, and that our story was finally being 18 told for the world to hear. 19 I am grateful the jury believed the victims and 20 returned a guilty verdict, but a question still tears at my 21 soul. After all of this, how can this five-star general of 22 this enormous sex-trafficking conspiracy involving hundreds, if 23 not thousands, of vulnerable girls and young women over three 24 decades continue to maintain her innocence? Reflecting on it, 25 I know the answer to my questions. SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C... (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00021617