CNN’s Randi Kaye speaks with one woman about her experiences with Jeffrey Epstein when she was just 16, the trauma she has continued to experience and what she hopes to see happen now.

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Haley Robson, who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein as a teenager, has voiced strong opposition to any potential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted for her role in Epstein's crimes. Robson recounted her experiences, including being propositioned by Epstein to recruit other girls and the lasting trauma she has endured.

Robson expressed disappointment over Maxwell's transfer to a minimum security prison and described the ongoing media attention as a barrier to healing. She dismissed speculation about a list of names related to the case and emphasized that pardoning Maxwell would be a significant error.

Epstein survivor says a Maxwell pardon would be a ‘huge mistake’

It was a room inside of his master bedroom, and there was a steam shower, and he came out in a towel. I ended up in my underwear. How did you end up in your underwear? Did he ask you to take your clothes off? Yes. He asked me to take off my skirt. Haley Robson still remembers the moment she met accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Things got really uncomfortable. As I was in my underwear, he was naked, and that's when he was touching me in some very private areas on my body, and it went on for about an hour. He pleasured himself, made me watch. Haley was just 16 years old at the time, a high school student. The only thing I could think about was, how am I going to get out of here? Like how am I getting out of this situation? Haley says Epstein tried to use sex toys on her, and she refused. That's when she says he made this proposition. He just looked at me and said, well, you can bring me your friends, and for every friend that you bring me, I will compensate you for. So he was going to pay you to bring other young girls? Correct. How much? $200. Per girl? Per child. Per girl, yeah. Haley agreed, and for two years, she recruited girls like herself for Epstein. I think at the moment, it was an act of me trying to just survive and get out of the situation because I didn't know what to expect next. I didn't know what was going to happen. I think I brought around eight to 10 girls, but I brought them to his house more than one time. Haley remembers feeling devastated in 2007 when Epstein, who was facing federal charges for allegedly abusing young girls, cut a sweetheart deal with the government to avoid federal prosecution. Years later, when he was arrested again in 2019 in New York to face federal charges. I wanted to have hope because it happened in New York, and I was like, OK, New York's going to come in. They're going to fix what Florida did or didn't do. This is going to be OK. But it wasn't. A few months later, Epstein was found dead in his jail cell. Haley never met Ghislaine Maxwell. Still, when Maxwell was convicted of child sex trafficking, among other charges, for her role in Epstein's alleged crimes, Haley says that felt like justice. Maxwell appealed her conviction. And now, with Epstein and Maxwell back in the news, it's been a struggle. It delays your healing because you get to a point where it's like, how can I move past this trauma when every day I wake up, it's in my face, it's in the news, it's on my phone? The fact that Maxwell has been moved to a minimum security prison, plus all the talk of a possible pardon for her and testimony before Congress, hasn't helped. I don't think Ghislaine has anything to say. I think it's all rubbish. I think it's dishonesty. It's a huge mistake for her to have been moved in the first place. If you pardon her, you will be making a huge error. And as far as that so-called list of names goes, that many wanted to be made public? The government has been gaslighting the public with a list that doesn't exist for political gain. Until this all blows over, Haley will build on her years of therapy. I'll probably be in therapy for the rest of my life, just from this whole situation with Jeffrey. Randy Kay, CNN, West Palm Beach, Florida.

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