Jeffrey Epstein victim will be at State of the Union as California rep’s guest

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers — who says the millionaire pedophile sexually abused her starting when she was 14 — will be at the 2020 State of the Union on Tuesday as the guest of California Congresswoman Jackie Speier.

Courtney Wild, 31, is the namesake of a proposed bill aiming to prevent the kind of wrist-slap plea deal granted to Epstein by federal prosecutors in Florida in 2008.

“Courtney’s bravery and dignity in the face of unfathomable treatment… and the resulting miscarriage of justice in that case deserves and demands the nation’s attention” said Rep. Speier, a Democrat, co-sponsoring the Courtney Wild Crime Victims’ Rights Reform Act of 2019.

“We are standing up for what is right and to ensure that those who continue to subvert the rule of law and those who fail to hold perpetrators responsible for their malign deeds will not succeed,” Speier said in a statement on Monday.

Wild in 2008 sued the Justice Department, alleging Epstein’s plea deal was illegal because prosecutors did not confer with her and the dozens of other alleged victims in the case before striking the agreement, as required under the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

Under the non-prosecution agreement, the serial sex predator served just 13 months in a cushy private wing of the Palm Beach County Jail and, under a “work release” program was allowed to spend hours a day at his office.

Her lawsuit was tossed in September when a Florida judge ruled it was “moot” following Epstein’s death at 66 in a Lower Manhattan lockup the previous month, as he awaited trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

Wild told The Miami Herald she was “nervous but super excited” for the State of the Union on Tuesday.

“I still can’t wrap my mind around it,” she told the newspaper. “I think it shows that we have come a long way. Hopefully, at the end of it, I would really like to give back to educate our children about sexual abuse and awareness. That’s my goal.”

“It’s like giving me a second chance at life.”

https://nypost.com/2020/02/03/jeffrey-epstein-victim-will-be-at-state-of-the-union-as-california-reps-guest/