On Wednesday morning, I turned on an MSNBC livestream to hear 10 heroic women speak at a news conference on the steps of the Capitol. My husband sat next to me. His eyes filled with tears.

Marina Lacerda, who said she was first invited to give “massages” to the shady and mysterious financier Jeffrey Epstein when she was a 14-year-old New York schoolgirl, spoke in public for the first time, urging the release of all related files held by the government.

Psychologist Annie Farmer, who also spoke, said she had been trying to alert law enforcement since 1996, when she reported to the FBI that she’d been victimized at the age of 16 by Epstein and his partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell. Nobody had listened to her, and Epstein went on to derail the lives of hundreds of other girls.

Now people

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