Inside Epstein’s network: Why justice failed victims for decades | Marci Hamilton | Have A Seat Ep. 15

Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen

True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On this episode, Chris Hansen has a seat with Child USA Founder and CEO, Professor Marci Hamilton, a leading expert on clergy sex abuse and child sex abuse statutes of limitation. As author of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children, Hamilton is at the forefront of crimes against children reform in the United States. Hansen and Hamilton dive into the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases, what the public can hope to learn when the full files are released and how we must put victims first, no matter how much time as passed when crimes against them were committed. Home Title Lock: Go to https://hometitlelock.com/chrishansen and use promo code HANSEN to get a FREE title history report and a FREE TRIAL of their Triple Lock Protection! For details visit https://hometitlelock.com/warranty ExpressVPN: Go to https://expressvpn.com/CHRISHANSEN and find out how you can get up to 4 extra months thanks to our sponsor, ExpressVPN! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Based on the worldwide best-selling novel.
0:02.0	Why do you want this job?
0:03.0	I really enjoy being a housemaid. This Christmas. Would you like the Grand Tora? See what you're getting yourself into? Discover what lies. I don't know what's been going on with her lately. Behind closed doors. I need this job. I do not want to go back. Sydney Sweeney. You'd lie it about everything. Amanda Seifred. What kind of monsters are we?
0:23.0	I want you to feel scary. back. Sydney Sweeney. You'd lie it about everything. Amanda Seifred.
0:23.0	What kind of monsters are we?
0:25.4	I want you to feel safe here.
0:26.4	The House Maid.
0:27.9	In Cinema's Everywhere, Boxing Day.
1:03.2	See it first with previews from December 22. Virtually every major predator case where there's been a criminal prosecution, Epstein, Diddy, Bill Cosby has started with a civil lawsuit, a civil lawsuit that has been filed by lawyers representing a victim of a vicious predator. And it's important because oftentimes, Homeland Security, the FBI, whatever the investigating
1:14.3	agency is, uses that civil suit as a template, as a roadmap for a criminal prosecution. And that's
1:21.5	exactly what happened at all those cases I mentioned. And in the R. Kelly. Successful prosecutions. But one of the issues facing
1:30.7	victims of predators today is something you may not think about. It's something really that wasn't
1:38.0	totally on my radar until recently. And that is the statute of limitations, the window that a survivor or a victim has
1:49.8	to seek justice. And it affects both criminal cases and civil cases. So it affects whether or not
1:56.7	you can get financial justice or a criminal prosecution.
2:06.1	And I was shocked to learn, and I've been working on these kinds of stories for 40-some years now,
2:13.2	I was shocked to learn how much work still needs to be done when it comes to the statute of limitations in many states in this country.
2:16.2	And so it was with great interest.
2:18.5	I learned about a group called Child USA
2:21.5	and its founder and chief visionary officer Marcy Hamilton,
2:26.8	who has been generous and kind enough to have a seat with me for this episode.
2:32.1	Marcy, welcome to the show.
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