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Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia

Lucia Osborne-Crowley was in the courtroom with Ghislaine Maxwell at her sex-trafficking trial. Her final account centres the victims

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In the opening pages of The Lasting Harm, journalist Lucia Osborne-Crowley travels to West Palm Beach to meet “Carolyn”, a victim-survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network. Her testimony supported the most serious charges in the prosecution’s case against the co-conspirator Epstein described as his “best friend”: his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.

“Carolyn” has never spoken to a journalist at length and is anxious to know why Osborne-Crowley wants to write the story.

I answer honestly, “I was sexually abused and groomed as a child […] And I’m still living with the effects of it. I want the world to understand it better.”

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