An Extraordinarily Brave French Woman Sets the Stage for a Jeffery Epstein Crime Scene Solution

An Extraordinarily Brave French Woman Sets the Stage for a Jeffery Epstein Crime Scene Solution

Gisèle Pelicot Calls on Victims to ‘Never Have Shame’ in Her First TV Interview.

You may not have heard of Gisèle, as the horrors forced upon her occurred in France. But she has a message for Epstein survivors, as well as all children and women who suffer rape and sexual abuse, that could change the Trumped-up failings of America’s Department of Justice.

Her husband, whom she considered “a great guy” and had shared her life with for 50 years had, for nearly a decade, crushed sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into her mashed potato, coffee or ice-cream, and invited dozens of men to rape her in a village in south-east France, where the couple had retired. On each occasion, she had been in a state akin to a coma. A total of 51 men, including her husband, were found guilty of rape or sexual assault and are now in prison. Fortunately, she has no memory of the events, and only became aware after evidence by others, resulting in trial.

She said at the time, “Shame sticks to you, it sticks to your skin. And that shame is a double sentence, it’s a suffering you inflict upon yourself.” Largely because of that, most rape trials are private, and many not reported at all, supposedly to protect the reputation of the woman.

Gisèle decided the trial must be public, instead of behind closed doors. “I said to myself that fighting against that on an individual level was also fighting for the collective. I said if I could do it, other people could too … My message of hope to all victims is never have shame.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi, who heads the Department of Justice, is determined to keep the Jeffery Epstein crimes behind the most closed of all doors…denials and redactions.

There they will stay, if she has her way, until the public wearies of the stories, as well as the perpetrators (who many feel may include the president of the United States), fade into the background, the victims are paid sufficiently for silence, and the mid-term elections are over.

Many wealthy and powerful people would like very much to see that happen.

The criminal attacks against Gisèle Pelicot were horrific but, (and not to make them less) she was an adult. The Epstein crimes were against children, and cannot remain unpunished.

A decade ago, there was a Me-Too Movement, exposing the widespread, systemic nature of sexual harassment and assault, primarily against women.

The punishment for those crimes depended entirely upon women willing to stand up among the accusations and declare it happened to “me too.”

That was brave, and those who stood were heroes. Gisèle Pelicot stood as bravely (and entirely alone) before the public during her trial in France. When she appeared during recesses in her ordeal, perhaps to her surprise, she was cheered as a hero.

The victims of Jeffrey Epstein on his criminal island must stand, identify themselves, decare ‘me too’ and point out those who criminally attacked them.

They know, and if they don’t know them by name, they recognize the photos.

Without specific victims, who were children at the time, and specific attackers, there is only speculation, conveniently covered by redaction. Redactions (claiming to be protecting the victims) work more for the men and way less for the children. Were specific politicians, celebrities and billionaires involved? Photographs would suggest they were. Is sexual contact (with or without coercion) with a female child under the age of eighteen a crime?

Certainly, it is.

Is the coverup of evidence under these circumstances by Pam Bondi, the United States Attorney General, a crime in itself?

History tells us that it is, and has been punished.

Richard Nixon’s Attorney General, John Mitchell, helped cover up the Watergate burglary, including approving illegal intelligence activities and then lying under oath to conceal White House involvement. Mitchell served a year and a half in federal prison and remains the highest-ranking U.S. law-enforcement official ever imprisoned for crimes committed in office.

Pam Bondi may join that rank.

But only if the curtain of redactions is pulled back, and victims testify without shame.

Remember the words of a very wise and brave French woman: “Shame sticks to you, it sticks to your skin. And that shame is a double sentence, it’s a suffering you inflict on yourself.”

History often offers solutions at the very time they’re required.

But we, and the children who suffered these crimes, have to seize the moment.