The latest release of Department of Justice documents connected to Jeffrey Epstein has reignited public outrage over one of the most grotesque abuse scandals in modern history. Names, flight logs, denials, and speculation have dominated headlines. Yet amid the noise, one reality emerges with particular moral clarity: the violence inflicted on Epstein’s victims did not end with sexual abuse. It extended to the destruction of their unborn children.
According to LifeSiteNews, newly surfaced documents reveal deeply disturbing accounts suggesting that pregnancies resulting from rape were not treated as evidence of crimes, but as problems to be erased. One document, identified as Epstein File EFTA02731393 and available through the Department of Justice, is described as the journal of an underage victim written during therapy in 2012.
In an entry addressed to Epstein by name, the girl writes of losing a baby after rape: “So it came out in the toilet and I didn’t know what to do so I just flushed the tiny little fetus,” adding, “You have made me numb and I hate you for this!” According to LifeSiteNews, the entries are fragmented, traumatic, and reflect a child struggling to process violence layered upon violence.
The journal contains references to multiple pregnancies. One entry reads, “Tomorrow is the halfway ultrasound for Jeffrey. This one stuck,” followed by the haunting question, “Will they take this one too?” The language suggests a young girl who no longer sees herself as a person, but as what she calls “a vessel.”
Later pages include ultrasound images accompanied by anguished reflections. “I DIDN’T CONSOLE HER. I CAN’T UNHEAR HER SCREAMS,” the girl writes in one passage. “I AM SO SORRY. I AM S() BROKEN.” According to LifeSiteNews, the identities of both the girl and the baby remain unknown.
A second journal reportedly describes a late-term abortion in the presence of Ghislaine Maxwell. The victim recalls being told to close her eyes, but writes that she did not because of what she heard. “I saw between her fingers this tiny head and body in the doctors hands,” she writes, describing “tiny cries.” In another passage she pleads, “She was born! I heard the tiny cries!”
The documents do not explain what ultimately happened to every child referenced. As LifeSiteNews states plainly, “Were some babies kidnapped, or were they all murdered? The documents do not tell us.”
Additional testimony underscores the pattern. An FBI intake report from August 3, 2020, cited by LifeSiteNews, recounts claims by a New Mexico woman who alleges she was trafficked at age 13 and gave birth to a baby girl who was later killed. The FBI has emphasized that these claims remain uncorroborated. Separately, in 2022, Elizabeth Stein testified in New York that she became pregnant after years of rape and trafficking and that she aborted the child, saying the trauma left her unable to speak fully about what she endured.
For Catholics, these revelations demand more than outrage. They demand moral clarity.
The Church has long taught that every human life possesses inherent dignity, regardless of the circumstances of conception. What the Epstein files appear to reveal is not abortion as “choice,” but abortion as procedure—used systematically to conceal rape, silence victims, and eliminate evidence. Far from empowering women, abortion in this context functioned as a tool of control, coercion, and further abuse.
LifeSiteNews argues that these documents expose a grim truth: abortion often serves the interests of abusers, not victims. The journals suggest girls who were not asked what they wanted, who were not protected, and who were left traumatized not only by rape but by the loss of their children.
The moral lesson is unavoidable. When a society separates sexual violence from its consequences, when it treats unborn children as disposable, it creates conditions where predators thrive. The Epstein scandal did not occur in a vacuum. It unfolded within a culture willing to look away—not only from abuse, but from the destruction that followed.
Children were violated. Then children were destroyed.
The Church must continue to proclaim, without apology, that the answer to violence is not more violence, and that the answer to trauma is not erasure of life. The Epstein files are not merely an indictment of powerful men. They are an indictment of a moral framework that failed the most vulnerable—born and unborn alike.
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