A Long Beach woman, who is one of the Epstein sex abuse survivors, and Congressman Robert Garcia are keeping up the pressure on President Trump to fulfill his campaign promise to release the Epstein files.
During a press conference on Monday, Annie Farmer detailed her experience with Epstein.
“When I was 16 years old, like many high school students, I was concerned with being a competitive college applicant and figuring out how I would pay for college,” she said. “My sister, Maria Farmer, lived in Manhattan and was connected to Epstein through her graduate art program, and was given a job procuring art for him. Epstein used what he learned about me and my hopes for the future to manipulate and groom me and my family. He flew me to New Mexico under the guise of meeting to plan for an educational trip he would pay for me to take, and it was there that he and Maxwell abused me at just 16 years old. I didn't understand it, and I told no one until a few months later when, horrifically, my sister was sexually assaulted by them.”
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In his speech, Congressman Garcia demanded transparency.
“Right now, the president has the power to bring justice and transparency by releasing the full files, and we're asking him to just live up to his promise during the campaign, which was to release the full files,” he said. “That's all that we want.”
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