Column: Epstein survivors threaten to take matters into their own hands

They stood in the blinding sunshine, facing cameras without shade in front of the Capitol for almost an hour and a half on Wednesday morning.

These dozen or so women had the absolute worst thing in common — all had been groomed and sexually abused by financier Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend and procurer Ghislaine Maxwell. Most were young teenagers when the abuse began.

Now as adults, wearing butterfly pins to symbolize their resilience, Epstein survivors came together as a group to demand that Congress stop playing games, stop protecting the rich and powerful and pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act . They are not happy with the slow pace of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation, which has trumpeted its production of thousands of documents, almost all of which are