VIDEO: Pressley Stands in Solidarity with Epstein Survivors Demanding Meeting with King Charles

April 28, 2026 VIDEO: Pressley Stands in Solidarity with Epstein Survivors Demanding Meeting with King Charles Congresswoman Pressley Spent Day Meeting with Survivors Roundtable Video (YouTube) WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) stood in solidarity with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse who have been calling for a meeting with King Charles III during his state visit to the United States. Congresswoman Pressley spent the day meeting directly with survivors and hearing about their experiences. Today, Congresswoman Pressley participated in a roundtable discussion with survivors, including Sky and Amanda Roberts, alongside Congressman Ro Khanna, Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernandez, and Congresswomen Summer Lee, Pramila Jayapal, and Melanie Stansbury. As a survivor of sexual abuse herself, Congresswoman Pressley has been a dedicated advocate for survivors’ justice and has led committee Democrats in calling for a full Congressional hearing to ensure survivors’ firsthand accounts are heard. Footage of the Congresswoman’s message to survivors at the roundtable is available here and a transcript is available below. For footage of the full roundtable discussion, click here . Transcript: Rep. Pressley’s Heartfelt Message to Epstein Survivors Demanding Meeting with King Charles House of Representatives April 28, 2026 I’ve been in Congress now for eight years, but prior to my election to Congress, I served on the Boston City Council for eight years, first Black woman elected to that body, and I ran on a platform of doing my heart’s work to save women and girls and to champion gender specific and responsive programming and policies in government. And there were naysayers who said to me that that was not the work of government, that I should go run a nonprofit. But each of you affirm that it is, in fact, that it is the work of government, it is the responsibility of government. And I remember so many people saying to me, you’re fighting for the girls, but it’s the boys that are being killed in our streets. And I said but it’s the girls that are slowly dying in front of you every day that are not being given any dignity or any visibility. There are several testimonials or stories that fuel me in this work. The first is a domestic worker I met who, every day went in to clean a home and removed all of her clothes because her employer said he needed that as proof that she was not stealing anything. And she went every day and cleaned that home and stripped. The other is of the mother of a 16-year-old, her daughter committed suicide because of bullying as the result of deepfake pornography. And the third is Virginia. She is always in my consciousness. And I’m so upset because I lost my butterfly [pin]. You know, I read her book, and before reading it, I just stared at the title over and over again. Nobody’s Girl. And Sky, Amanda – I just thank you for all that, all that you’re doing in carrying her legacy forward and championing the need for cultural reform, culture shifts, and legislative change. And Sky, I know she was, was your protector, and you are being hers, but you are also being a brother to this entire sister survivor circle. And it is a painful thing to go through life feeling that you belong to no one. But we claim Virginia. She belongs to all of us now, and each of you belong to us as well. And I’m guided every day by the words of Angela Y. Davis that “I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change, I’m changing the things I can no longer accept.” I can no longer accept that femicide is something normalized, economic dependence, coercive control, sexual assault, domestic violence, sexual abuse, sex trafficking. I can no longer accept that we don’t have an Equal Rights Amendment in our Constitution, that we have been relegated to a second class or invisible status, overwhelmingly, as women and certainly as survivors. Nothing changes if nothing changes. So I just, I thank all of you. I do think that change is on the way. I look forward to a day where we can all not just wear butterfly [pins], but embody that spirit of feeling totally and completely free. Free from the shame, free from the burden of it all. Because what has happened to our survivors around the table was a violation of dignity. It was a violation of bodies. It was a violation of dreams. You see before you grown women, so you might forget that they were mere children. And I can think of nothing more vile than to groom, to prey upon, to exploit, to rape, to traffic a child. So I’m just grateful for each and every one of you as we hold accountable the vermin who committed these vile acts that left survivors with a lifetime sentence to navigate, whether they are pastors, presidents, or princes, a reckoning is on the way. Thank you. — In recent interviews , Rep. Pressley described why her work to subpoena the Epstein files is deeply personal to her. Throughout her time in Congress, Rep. Pressley has been a champion for justice for survivors of sexual violence and reproductive freedom. In July 2024, Rep. Pressley reintroduced the Bringing an End to Harassment by Enhancing Accountability and Rejecting Discrimination (BE HEARD) in the Workplace Act of 2024. In June 2024, Rep. Pressley renewed her calls for accountability and survivor-focused solutions following the damning reports of a toxic work environment at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).  In June 2024, Rep. Pressley also sent a letter to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) requesting information about the botched closure of FCI Dublin, abuse of women while they were being transferred to other facilities, and BOP’s management of investigations into the staff sexual misconduct and abuse at FCI Dublin and other federal BOP facilities. Rep. Pressley is also a lead co-sponsor of H.R. 5388 , legislation that would prevent the Secretary of Education from rolling back Title IX protections for survivors, as well as H.Res. 560 , a resolution calling for an impeachment inquiry into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, following reporting on new allegations of sexual misconduct committed by the Associate Justice. In April 2019, following the passage of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019, Rep. Pressley issued a statement honoring her mother, Sandra Pressley, a survivor of domestic violence. Rep. Pressley is also the lead co-sponsor of an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that would establish the first-ever grant program dedicated to supporting LGBTQ+ survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, which passed the House of Representatives in March 2021. ### Back to News Next Article Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email