Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexual trafficking

Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage girl by sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a financier who travels around the world.

A 60-year-old British social celebrity recruited four girls between 1994 and 2004 on five charges, including sexual trafficking of minors, and was a boyfriend at the time. I was convicted of having a sexual encounter with Epstein.

Maxwell deceived everyone in orbit by calling Epstein an “manipulative, cunning and dominant man” at a judgment hearing in a federal court in Manhattan before learning the judgment. She said “sorry” for the pain his victims experienced.

“Meeting Jeffrey Epstein is the greatest regret of my life,” Maxwell said.

In making the ruling, US circuit judge Alison Nathan said Maxwell did not appear to express remorse or accept responsibility.

“Maxwell participated in a horrifying plan to seduce, transport and transport a 14-year-old underage girl for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, directly and repeatedly, and for many years.” Nathan said.

In often emotional and overt testimony during the trial, Annie Farmer, a woman known as “Kate,” and two other women, Maxwell, who was convicted of five charges, was the central figure in Epstein’s abuse. I testified that there was.

At a hearing on Tuesday, farmer, now a psychologist, said her experience of being abused by Maxwell “caused a great deal of shame,” and sometimes felt “want to disappear.”

Kate said she was proud to help Maxwell take responsibility.

“Today I can tell her that I have become me today, despite her and her efforts to look at Guillene and make me feel helpless and insignificant. Gives that power to her daughter, “Kate said.

Maxwell’s one-month trial in late 2021 was widely regarded as having never waited for his sexual trafficking trial after Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan cell in 2019 at the age of 66. ..

This was one of the hottest cases as a result of the #MeToo movement, often encouraging women to speak out about sexual abuse by the hands of wealthy and powerful people.

Maxwell’s lawyer should be sentenced to 5-1 / 4 years or less, claiming she had fled for Epstein’s crime and had already spent a significant amount of time in prison. Was stated. The prosecutor proposed to Maxwell sentence him to 30 to 55 years in prison.