Epstein survivor Maria Farmer and her sister Annie<\/a>, who have said for years that Maria had filed one of the first complaints against Epstein in the 1990s.\n <\/p>\n\n An FBI document released Friday included a 1996 description of a criminal complaint against Epstein related to child pornography.\n <\/p>\n
\n While the name of the complainant is redacted in the document, Maria Farmer\u2019s lawyer, Jennifer Freeman, confirmed on CNN that the complaint was in fact made by her client.\n <\/p>\n
\n The \u201cfacts of complaint\u201d part of the document says that the woman \u2014 who describes herself as a professional artist \u2014 had taken photos of her underage sisters for her own personal artwork.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cEpstein stole the photos and negatives and is believed to have sold the pictures to potential buyers,\u201d the document reads. \u201cEpstein at one time requested (redacted) to take pictures of young girls at swimming pools.\u201d It continued: \u201cEpstein is now threatening (redacted) that if she tells anyone about the photos he will burn her house down.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Freeman had previously told CNN that Farmer\u2019s original complaint was one of the key documents she would be searching for when the DOJ\u2019s Epstein files were released.\n <\/p>\n
\n She said Friday evening that she is looking for more information from the files, including what the authorities did in response to Farmer\u2019s complaint, when and why.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhy didn\u2019t they act to stop this?\u201d Freeman said in an email to CNN.\n <\/p>\n
\n The complaint, stamped September 3, 1996, underscores the fact that Epstein had been on the radar of law enforcement years before federal and state charges were brought against him in New York and Florida.\n <\/p>\n
\n In a statement provided by the law firm representing Maria Farmer, the Epstein accuser said the FBI had \u201cfailed\u201d her and other victims over the years.\n <\/p>\n
\n Farmer\u2019s sister, Annie, has previously said she was 16 when Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell abused her.\n <\/p>\n
\n Speaking to CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper, an emotional Annie Farmer said: \u201cJust to see it in writing and to know that they had this document this entire time \u2014 and how many people were harmed after that date? We\u2019ve been saying it over and over, but to see it in black and white that way has been very emotional.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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Epstein survivor gets tearful over her sister’s 1996 report included in released files\n <\/p>\n
Epstein survivor gets tearful over her sister’s 1996 report included in released files<\/p>\n
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