Ghislaine Maxwell, co-founder and partner of financier Jeffrey Epstein and convicted of being an ally in December sex trafficking, conspiracy and conspiracy to transport a minor for illegal sexual activitydoomed to spend this Tuesday 20 years in prison and $750,000 fine.
The decision was upheld in a court in New York. Judge Alison Nathandetermined that it should use sentencing guidelines from the time violations were committed between 1994 and 2004, not existing ones. This brought Maxwell’s sentence below the 30 to 55 years in prison requested by the prosecution.
Maxwell was found guilty of direct and repeated participation in an order for many years. attraction, transport and traffic for underage girlsSome are 14 years old. “normalized sexual abuse‘ and the harm done to these young girls was incalculable, therefore ‘required substantial punishment’: ‘The rule of law requires whether you are rich and powerful or wholly unknown, No one is above the law“.
The case of 60-year-old Maxwell followed with anticipation and helped shed light on the sexual abuse plot that Epstein hatched. And even though the defense has already suggested that it will appeal, it sends a woman to jail who has hired underage youth for at least ten years and prepared them for sexual abuse by the financier, sometimes even personally participating in those abuses.
Maxwell’s Witness
After hearing witnesses from Maxwell’s victims, the prisoner mourned the pain and suffering of the revelations: “It’s even harder to hear and absorb, both in scale and scope, of the horrific impact on the lives of so many women.” Despite this, he admitted that he wanted to recognize that pain: “I deeply empathize with all the victims of this case.”
He stated that he was a prisoner His former partner, Jeffrey Epstein, was a manipulative, cunning, and controlling man. He said he lived a deeply compartmentalized life and “deceived everyone in his orbit.”
conspiracy theories
Epstein, arrested and charged in July 2019, died a month after his arrest in prison, which is officially described as suicide. This certification has not prevented conspiracy theories from being triggered, especially given the numerous prominent figures from politics, academia and business, whose closeness to the financier has cast a shadow over them.
None of these famous figures stood out more in this case than their predecessors. Britain’s Prince Andrewwas accused of forcing her to have sex by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein and Maxwell’s victims. The prince reached an out-of-court agreement in February to avoid a civil trial, but the British royal house suspended him from official activities due to the scandal and stripped him of his military titles.
Maxwell’s arrest in July 2020 at the luxurious rural residence he was hiding in New Hampshire, and due process and defense, ensured that authorities tried to cover up the mistakes and made his client the scapegoat they sat on a bench. Where they couldn’t place Epstein. But Justice decided that he was also “a sophisticated predator who knew exactly what he was doing.”Manipulating victims and preparing them for sexual abuse, as well as helping to “normalize” those abuses, who are present when Epstein commits or participates in them. Also, Maxwell showed “absolute lack of remorse”, as the prosecution recalled at the trial.