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Sex crimes – Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced in New York to 20 years in prison

June 29, 2022 by world today news

Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced in New York to 20 years in prison

The former girlfriend of American financier Jeffrey Epstein is found guilty of sex trafficking of minors.

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Ghislaine Maxwell, here in New York in June 2013, for the first time expressed her “sympathy for all victims” in this case after sentencing.

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She risks ending her life in prison in New York: 60-year-old ex-British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted at the end of 2021 of sex trafficking of minors on behalf of deceased American financier Jeffrey Epstein, was sentenced on Tuesday to 20 years imprisonment.

“Today’s sentence holds Ghislaine Maxwell responsible for committing heinous crimes against children. It sends a strong message that no one is above the law and it’s never too late for justice,” Damian Williams, federal prosecutor for the Manhattan court, where Judge Alison Nathan ruled, said in a statement. his judgment.

At sentencing, Ghislaine Maxwell for the first time expressed her “sympathy for all the victims” in this case.

But arriving in the morning in front of the gigantic South New York Courthouse, one of the accusers of the Maxwell-Epstein couple, Sarah Ransome, had launched: “Yes, Ghislaine must die in prison”.

“I spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey (Epstein) and all the accomplices did to me. I have been raped several times. Sometimes I was raped three times a day (…). There was a constant influx of girls who were raped over and over again,” said the young woman, who was not a civil party in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial.

Between 15 and 55 years incurred

The 60-year-old had been incarcerated in New York since her arrest in the northeastern United States in the summer of 2020. After her trial last November and December, she faced decades of criminal imprisonment.

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His lawyers had filed a request for clemency in mid-June for a sentence of less than 20 years. Even though the legal texts and case law provide for up to 55 years of imprisonment and the prosecutors had said they were counting on at least 30 years for his “responsibility” and his “total lack of remorse” for his sexual crimes.

Last attempt on Saturday to escape her fate: Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, had called for a postponement of the sentencing because her client had been placed “under surveillance” in prison due to a risk of “suicide” .

“Without justification”, according to the defense.

An “authoritative” father

The lawyers had also invoked, in vain, the responsibility and the harmful influence of Robert Maxwell – an “authoritarian” father who died in 1991 when he mysteriously fell from his yacht – and of Jeffrey Epstein, a multimillionaire financier who committed suicide in prison in New York in August 2019 before his trial for underage sex crimes.

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Jeffrey Epstein in New York, March 28, 2017.

KEYSTONE/New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP

Ghislaine Maxwell, who is British, American and French, was found guilty on December 29 by the Manhattan court, in particular of sex trafficking of underage girls. Some victims were as young as 14 in the 1990s and 2000s.

Her trial had portrayed her as a “sophisticated predator” who knowingly acted to lure and seduce young girls and deliver them to Epstein at his residences in Florida, Manhattan, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands.

“Jane”, “Kate”, “Carolyn” and Annie Farmer, 42, the only one to speak without a pseudonym, had revealed to the hearing their lives damaged by forced sex with Epstein – first sexual massages – when they were between 14 and 17 years old, often in the presence of Maxwell.

“The mistake of his life”

Born and raised in a hyperprivileged environment in the United Kingdom, Ghislaine Maxwell again assured this month via her lawyers that she “had a difficult, traumatic childhood” and made “the most serious mistake of her life” by meeting Epstein.

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were in a relationship in the early 1990s before becoming professional collaborators and accomplices in their sex crimes for nearly thirty years.

The financier, with powerful economic and political networks in the United States and abroad, was himself accused of having raped young girls but his suicide extinguished the public action against him.

In a separate part of this case with international ramifications, British Prince Andrew, friend of the Maxwell-Epstein pair, sealed an amicable agreement on February 15 – for 13 million dollars according to the “Daily Telegraph” – with the American Virginia Giuffre, herself the alleged victim of the couple, who accused her of having sexually assaulted her in 2001 when she was a minor.

The British royal family has thus avoided a civil trial in New York as resounding as it is embarrassing.

AFP

Posted: 06.28.2022, 8:48 p.m.

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