The Department of Justice has now released 3.5 million pages of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Every time there's a new batch of Epstein files released, there's a swirl of partisan fury.

Democrats want to know if President Donald Trump is implicated. As a conservative, I also want to know this. Others want to know the extent to which Democrats like former President Bill Clinton appear in the trove of Epstein emails and other related documents. I'd like to know the answers to this, too.

But as a mom of daughters, I worry that everyone is more concerned about which Epstein email can be used as a tool to bludgeon their political enemy with, rather than how and when Epstein's many victims can finally receive relief and peace.

We’re all worried about what Trump, Clinton and Elon Musk did or didn’t do, but we're talking about teenage girls here, for God's sake. Epstein, who was awaiting trial on trafficking charges when he was found dead in a jail cell in 2019, is accused of facilitating a sex ring with so much influence and range that hundreds of child victims were stripped of their humanity, possibly by people we read about on the news. This seems to be getting lost.

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