Jeffrey Epstein survivor presses case to hold U.S. government accountable for violating victims' rights.
, has been a driving force in the effort to hold the United States government accountable for its lenient treatment of the late financier, who was spared federal prosecution in 2008 after being investigated for alleged crimes against her and more than 30 other minor girls.
Wild was just 14 years old when she says she was recruited by a friend to go to Epstein's Palm Beach mansion, under the guise of providing a massage to an older man. In July 2008, she filed a civil suit against the United States, alleging that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Florida had violated federal law by reaching a secret non-prosecution agreement with Epstein without conferring with the victims.
Courtney Wild says she was 14 years old when she started to hear about other girls making money from Epstein.Under the deal, Epstein and any potential co-conspirators in his crimes were immunized from federal prosecution in exchange for his guilty pleas to two low-level prostitution charges in state court. Epstein served just 13 months of an 18-month sentence in a private wing of a Palm Beach County jail. He was released in 2009.
For 11 years, the federal government contested Wild's lawsuit, arguing that prosecutors had no obligation to inform her and other victims about the deal because no federal charges had been filed. But last February, U.S.
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