Epstein survivors on why so many victims struggled to come forward:
Dani Bensky: “People will say, ‘Why didn’t you tell anyone?’ … And I say, ‘But if I described what I went through, would you have believed me?’”
Another survivor, Liz Stein, recalls sitting with the FBI at age 20: “I did sit with the FBI and it was terrifying at 20 years old, right, in 2008. I just remember feeling interrogated and I felt like I was up against the wall and I was going to be brought in for prostitution charges. So I didn’t even think that they would believe me.”