Epstein Survivor Says Maxwell Pardon Would Be ‘Crumbling’ of Justice System: ‘Upside Down World’

A woman who survived abuse from infamous pedophile Jeffery Epstein told MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera on Friday that pardoning his conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell “would mean the complete crumbling of this justice system.”

Teresa Helm, who was abused by Epstein in the early 2000s, was also personally groomed by Maxwell. Maxwell lured Helm to Epstein’s New York apartment, telling the then-22-year-old she was there for a “job interview.”

After weeks of media attention on the “Epstein files,” the public’s eyes have now turned to his convicted accomplice. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer officially issued a subpoena Wednesday to depose Maxwell next month, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has personally interviewed her twice this week.

Helm reached out to the network in an email, asking for her story to be told.

“When a person’s abusers are repeatedly flashed in view at any given moment, and especially when promises of justice and promises of structures of power finally being held to account, to then essentially have the door shut in your face and no longer open for business, then what?” the email read.

On Ana Cabrera Reports, Helm told Cabrera that “we have to stay focused on what the outcome is for these survivors” and that:

There needs to be the transparency because there are women here– many women that have gone through these lived experiences, that that is something that cannot be taken away or simply shut down. It cannot be shut down. These are experiences that have been had and you don’t have this experience after experience with so many different women and go on to say that there’s actually nothing here, because there have been multiple people to support this perpetual abuse and exploitation for decades.

Helm said that while the DOJ did not reach out to her before or after issuing the memo stating that “no further disclosure would be appropriate” in the case, she would have to “oppose their view.”

She continued:

Again, I cannot stress enough the fact that there are so many people that have, again I’m just repeating myself, perpetuated decades of exploitation. My personal experience I know of three different women that led me down the path to me taking myself to the home of Jeffrey Epstein, where he assaulted me. I know of an additional fourth woman who followed up with an email thanking me for my time there if you could believe that, which is a part of the normalization of the abuse. So just in my experience, I have four women, Jeffrey Epstein, who assaulted me, and I have an additional gentleman, the chef that I met in Jeffrey’s home. I have the driver, I have the place that I stayed, which was Jeffrey Epstein’s brother’s apartment building. You have all the accomplices there. So these are just the people that helped facilitate. What about all the people that these other women were exploited and trafficked to? There are so many people involved, and there have been so many people involved for decades. So there’s zero sense to be made to say that there’s actually nothing here.

Helm served as a key witness in Maxwell’s trial, which resulted in Maxwell being sentenced to 20 years in prison. When asked by Cabrera how she felt about the current meetings between the administration and Maxwell, Helm said she was “deeply concerned.”

“I first and foremost would adamantly state that her credibility is zero.” said Helm. “She has previously been charged with perjury, so we already know that she’s capable and willing and ready to lie under oath.”

Cabrera asked Helm: “Do you worry that Maxwell will be given some kind of leniency, maybe even a pardon? What would that mean to you?”

Helm responded:

I am concerned about that. And it would mean the complete crumbling of this justice system that should first and foremost stand for, fight for and protect survivors. We all deserve a pathway to justice, and then we don’t deserve to have it yet again robbed from us, because so much has already been taken. It doesn’t seem– it truly does seem, I should say, just an upside down world where you are promised and there are declarations of the judicial system working to support pathways to justice, and for them, just to simply crumble is what it appears is happening right now.

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