Two British victims of Ghislaine Maxwell attended the court with great courage, giving disastrous details about the horrific orders of child sexual predators and the psychological distress they are still suffering. talked.
A British woman who testified under the name “Kate” and Sarah Lansam, who was not charged in Maxwell’s trial at the end of last year, explained in detail how the fall of the celebrity destroyed their lives. I wrote a statement about the impact on people. ..
They stopped at the New York Courthouse and excerpted directly from their influence statement before the judge imprisoned Maxwell for 20 years for himself and her ex-boyfriend pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. I read.
British victims of four Maxwell survivors wanted to meet with an Oxford-educated sex trafficker to tell the world how her crimes affected them. I was alone.
Ransom provided the court with a shocking image of her in the hospital after a failed attempted suicide after struggling to agree to the abuse that Maxwell had suffered. A statement of influence from Prince Andrew’s teenage accuser, Virginia Giuffre (now her married name is known in Juffre and she was unable to attend court due to “medical problems”). Read aloud by her lawyer.
Sarah Ransom
Ransom, 37, whose father is Scotland’s Sir McPherson, was tricked by Maxwell into a net of his terrible abuse and was imprisoned on a private island in the Caribbean of Epstein three times a day. Said he was raped. She states in her influential statement: With one visit [Epstein’s private island]Sexual demand, deterioration, and humiliation became so severe that he tried to escape from the cliffs into the sea where sharks infested.
“They trapped us in an upside-down twisted world of rape, rape, rape, and even rape. Like Hotel California, you can check in to the Epstein-Maxwell dungeon of sexual hell. But I can’t leave. Guillene, with her own hands, pushed me into Epstein’s room to be raped.
“I have never been married and have no children. Even little girls have always wanted.
“Since the abuse, I have tried two suicide attempts, both of which are almost fatal.”
Elizabeth Stein
After moving to New York at the age of 18 in 1991, Miss Stein, who was preyed on by Maxwell with the ambition to work in the fashion industry, said she was first abused by British social celebrities and Epstein at the hotel.
“That night at the hotel was the first night they sexually assaulted me,” she said. “Then I tried to pretend that everything was normal …” Stein said in three years after Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, invited her to them, “being beaten and raped.” , Was trafficked, “said a sexual trafficking ring by” grabbing her vulnerabilities. “
She had to have an abortion after becoming pregnant with one of the “countless” men who raped her while being trafficked by a friend. “It happened that I was so traumatized that I can’t talk about them until today. I don’t even have the vocabulary to explain them.
“In the most literal sense, Epstein and Maxwell scared me. They wouldn’t believe me if I told anyone, and if they believed they would kill me and the people closest to me. I told me. After meeting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, it felt like someone turned off the light of my soul.
Annie Farmer
The fourth and final whistleblower in Maxwell’s trial told the jury how a private predator gave her a nude massage and groped her as a teenager at Epstein’s New Mexico Ranch.
“One of the most painful and ongoing consequences of Maxwell and Epstein’s abuse was the loss of confidence in myself, my perception, and my instincts,” she said.
“When predators put on their bridegrooms and then abuse or exploit children and other vulnerable people, they are, in a sense, trained not to trust themselves. Crossing boundaries or disappointing. If you do, please tell yourself.
“Because this idea is insidious, these seeds of self-doubt have taken root even when I learned my sister. [Maria] They were also damaged, and a few years later it was discovered that many others were being exploited.
“For years, these memories have caused significant self-awareness, minimization, and guilt.
“I blamed myself for believing that these predators really wanted to help me. When I heard that other girls and young women had experienced in the hands of Maxwell and Epstein, I I felt a tremendous Survivor’s Guilt.
“I remember sitting at my desk and shaking my body after seeing a picture of Maxwell, Virginia. [Roberts] Prince Andrew, it became clear to me how their plans were going on.
“Maxwell had a lot of opportunities to clean up, but instead continued to make more harmful choices. When my sister and I first talked to the media about what happened to us, Maxwell lied about us and threatened Maria.
Virginia Giuffre
Prince Andrew’s teenage sexual accusator, Miss Roberts (now based in Australia), is the most famous victim of Epstein of all. She did not provide evidence in Maxwell’s trial, but the jury found Miss Roberts to be one of the victims of her sex trafficking. In a statement about her influence, the American swore to Maxwell:
She also told her:’Unquestionably, Jeffrey Epstein was a terrible pedophile. But without you, I wouldn’t have met Jeffrey Epstein.
“For me, and for many others, you have opened the door to hell.
“And like a wolf dressed in sheep, Guillene used your femininity to betray us, and you guided us through it. You arranged Witnessed and even put an end to the rape, turmoil and unpleasant manipulations that took place.
“Gilene, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in a cell. You deserve to be trapped in a cage forever, just as you trapped a victim.
“Kate”
When the British victim “Kate” was a lonely teenager in 1994, Maxwell dressed her as a high school girl for sex with Epstein and named her a “good girl.”
She states: What happened to me when I was young changed the course of my life dramatically and forever.
“I have witnessed many times over the years that Ghislaine Maxwell has been trying to recruit other girls and consistently and persistently demanding that I and others do the same. did.
“There was no ambiguity or doubt that she had complete knowledge of what would happen after recruiting a girl.” In the years following the abuse, she had drug addiction, panic attacks, and night terrors. “I can’t trust my instincts when choosing a romantic relationship,” he said.
Kate said the testimony at the trial was “both horrifying and retraumatic,” but added that “but I haven’t regretted it for a while.”