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Her name is not in this piece. She is not a case number to us either. She is a person who was a small child once, in a room with a blue couch, in a house that should never have let her in the door.

This is what the documents say happened to her and what the United States government did after they knew.

What Happened

In October 2019, ten weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody, attorneys at the Marsh Law Firm wrote to the Southern District of New York. They were writing about a client. An Israeli citizen. A woman who had been trafficked for decades across Israel, the United States, and Canada.

The letter named her traffickers. Her uncle, described as a powerful figure in a well known Russian crime family. A Greek Orthodox Church priest, reportedly known for abusing children. And others, not yet named publicly.

The full letter is in the federal record. EFTA00078209–12.

Among the evidence her lawyers gave the SDNY was a photograph showing her being abused. She is approximately five years old, the year is approximately 1997. Part of a man is visible and the room has a blue couch and a window facing the street.

Lawyers compared that window to the upper floors of Epstein’s Manhattan mansion at 9 East 71st Street. The view was consistent with looking out across the street at the Frick Museum.

She remembered more than the photograph showed. She said the house was big and that it belonged to a rich man. She gave the address as 9, 71. She described a large arched front door with a carved face above it and two more faces on either side. She described a large adult doll hanging from a chandelier inside the home. She described many bedrooms, and said the older girls were kept in different ones than she was.

She remembered names. Jeffrey. Joseph Karo. Yoav Gil. A woman she and other children knew as Lane, who showed them how to use oil for massages, and told them what would be expected of them afterward with the men.

This is the same architecture other survivors have described in sworn testimony elsewhere in the Epstein files. A house, a routine, a woman giving instructions, men waiting. She was only five. The instructions were the same.

Her lawyers told the SDNY they needed help. They asked for emergency travel documents to bring her into the United States so she could hand over what she had directly to law enforcement. They had photographs of her current injuries, they had the names of perpetrators who appeared in some of the photographs, and they had phone numbers those perpetrators had used to contact her.

They were specific about the danger. They wrote that they were afraid the Russian crime family would find her, and would go after anyone who had helped her.

Her communications with her traffickers were in Hebrew. Her phone records traced to Ukrainian numbers, later confirmed by the anti-trafficking organization DeliverFund.

In August 2019, two months before this letter was sent, she received a message. It contained a photo of a mutilated woman and the Hebrew text said ‘this is what will happen to you if you talk, so be quiet.’

She did not stop. A year later, in November 2020, the Marsh Law Firm wrote again. This time the letter ran nine pages and went directly to Audrey Strauss, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. It included expert psychological evaluation. It included photographs comparing the mansion’s exterior to the Frick Museum across the street, side by side. It included a family photograph taken on an El Al flight, used to document her injuries.

What Federal Prosecutors Did

This was not the first time this exact pattern happened to an Epstein victim. In 1996, an artist named Maria Farmer called the FBI to report that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell had assaulted her, and that they were running a child trafficking operation. She has said an agent hung up on her. Nothing happened for almost thirty years. Farmer has since sued the federal government over that silence.

“If the FBI had acted, they could have saved thousands of victims and nearly 30 years of trauma,” Marsh Law Firm partner Helene Weiss said publicly, after Farmer’s 1996 report was finally released as part of the DOJ’s file production.

Twenty three years later, the same shape. Somewhere inside the Southern District of New York, that nine page letter was logged, forwarded, and answered.

The internal routing email is also in the federal record. Here it is in full.

The original iteration of this ended up going through. See the attached thread. Among other issues, her counsel apparently advised a year ago that she was not in a position to be interviewed at the time, though it looks like it was referred it to FBI in any event.

Just FYI. — EFTA00078207–08.

That is the entire response on file. A photograph of a child being sexually assaulted, a living witness, named perpetrators, phone numbers. A federal prosecutor’s office acknowledged it, noted that an interview had not happened, mentioned an FBI referral with no detail attached, and closed the loop with two words that mean nothing more than ‘I saw this.’

Fourteen months had passed since the first letter. Ghislaine Maxwell had already been arrested. The SDNY had an active, high-profile prosecution running. This was not a cold tip mailed in by a stranger. It was a sworn legal filing from a known firm, with photographic evidence, sent directly to the U.S. Attorney.

The pattern is not one bad afternoon in one office. It is the same shape twice, twenty three years apart. A credible report arrives, sits, and nothing is done. The survivor is left to wonder if anyone read it.

Where This Stands Now

As of this writing, there is no public record that this report was ever investigated. No charges have been filed against the uncle, the priest, or anyone else named in either letter. There is no public indication anyone from law enforcement ever interviewed her.

In the years since, money has moved through the Epstein case. The original victims’ compensation fund paid out roughly $125 million before it closed in 2021. In February 2026, Epstein’s estate agreed to a settlement of up to $35 million for survivors who missed that earlier window. In March 2026, Bank of America agreed to pay $72.5 million to settle claims it ignored warning signs in Epstein’s accounts. JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank settled for hundreds of millions of dollars before that.

We searched for any reference to this letter in connection with any of these settlements, any later court filing, or any news report published after November 2020. We found nothing. As far as the public record shows, the SDNY’s response in this file remains the last documented action taken on her case by anyone in government.

In January 2026, after the DOJ released millions of pages under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked whether the new material would lead to further charges. He said the files contained “a lot of horrible photographs,” but that photographs and emails alone do not, in his words, “allow us necessarily to prosecute somebody.”

We are not asking readers to find her. We are asking you not to try. She has already been threatened into silence once. The documents that name her abusers are not an invitation.

We have one question, aimed at one office.

The Southern District of New York received a credible report of a child being sexually abused, with photographic evidence, named suspects, and an offer of full cooperation from a living witness. Someone logged that letter, someone forwarded it, someone typed two words and considered it handled.

Who was it? What did they do with the FBI referral? Why is “Just FYI” the last entry in this file.

These are not rhetorical questions. They have answers. People inside that office know what happened to this case, and they have not said so publicly.

We are not asking. We are on record demanding they do.

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Written By Jana, see comments for sources and more.

The FBI cut the phone lines during the 1977 disability rights sit-in. Then they turned off the hot water.

They locked the doors from the outside. One hundred and fifty people were trapped on the fourth floor. Half of them used wheelchairs. The government assumed they would leave.

Kitty Cone was thirty-three. She had muscular dystrophy. Her muscles were failing, but her logistics were flawless. She knew how to organize people.

The federal government had promised to sign regulations protecting disabled Americans from discrimination. The policy was known as Section 504. They printed the promise on paper. Then they stalled. Without a signature, it was just typography.

The protesters entered the regional Health, Education, and Welfare building in San Francisco on a Tuesday morning. They took the elevators to the director's office. They brought sleeping bags and catheters. They informed the staff they were not leaving until the law was signed.

By sunset, the police surrounded the exits. Kitty sat near the windows. She organized the floor plan. She assigned committees for security and sanitation. She kept her medication in a small cooler.

According to federal memorandums released decades later, the strategy to end the occupation relied on medical attrition. The building was not equipped for long-term habitation. The FBI calculated that a population requiring ventilators, specialized diets, and daily medical aides would voluntarily evacuate if the environment became sufficiently hostile. They instituted a blockade.

The blockade went into effect immediately. No food deliveries allowed. No medical supplies permitted through the lobby. Guards stood at the main doors checking identification.

Kitty's muscles deteriorated faster under the physical strain. She couldn't walk. When the phone lines went dead, the fourth floor lost contact with the press. The government waited for the quiet.

Kitty dropped to the floor. She realized the barricades were designed for standing adults. The police had blocked the hallways at waist height. They hadn't blocked the linoleum.

The floors were covered in cigarette ash and spilled coffee. She dragged her body through it. She crawled under the barricades to reach the restricted elevator shafts and unguarded offices.

She carried notes in her pockets. She found a single working payphone the FBI missed. She called the local news desks. She called the mayor's office.

She crawled back. When her arms failed, someone pulled her by her ankles. The Black Panthers heard the news reports. They crossed the police lines with hot meals. The FBI could not stop them without a riot.

They shut off the elevators, so she crawled.

The occupation lasted twenty-five days. It remains the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in American history. On April 28, the Secretary of HEW signed the regulations without a single alteration.

The protesters left the building the next morning. They went back to their apartments. The Rehabilitation Act regulations laid the groundwork for every accessibility law that followed. The HEW building still stands on United Nations Plaza. The elevators run on a schedule. The doors are heavy glass.

Kitty Cone: the woman who crawled under the barricades.

Source: Kitty Cone's oral history, Bancroft Library.

Verified via: National Museum of American History.

Brad Lomax who was disabled and a Black Panther was key to the Black Panthers involvement. They did more than provide meals and didn’t just hear it from the news. They were actively involved.

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