When Marina Lacerda told the world that financier Jeffrey Epstein had sexually abused her when she was 14, the threats began almost immediately.
In September, she and other accusers appeared at a news conference pressing for the release of the Epstein files. ¡°She¡¯ll be unalived,¡± a stranger wrote under a YouTube video of a news report about Lacerda that day. ¡°She really should¡¯ve stayed quiet. RIP.¡±
The harassment intensified when Lacerda¡¯s name appeared at least 46 times in unredacted Justice Department documents months later. Online, she was called a liar and a prostitute who deserved what happened to her. Her 12-year-old daughter was taunted at school by classmates asking if she was Epstein¡¯s child.
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