Jeffrey Epstein survivors on coming to terms with what happened to them in Palm Beach: ‘I had blamed myself for all these years’

“A lot of times, what girls will choose to think is, ‘This is my fault,’” said Jamie Howard, a clinical psychologist at The Child Mind Institute. “And so, I’m not going to tell anyone. I don’t want to be blamed. I don’t want people to think that I’ve done something really wrong, and then I’ll get in trouble. So I’ll keep it to myself and I’ll have all of this shame.”