Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced To 20 Years For Sex Trafficking

Jeffrey Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell, Sentenced To 20 Years In Jail

Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for helping disgraced former financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls, according to BBC.

Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December of recruiting and trafficking four teenage girls for sexual abuse by Epstein, her then boyfriend.

One of her accusers said outside the court earlier that she should remain in prison for the rest of her life. Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

 

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He had been awaiting his own sex trafficking trial. Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes took place over a decade, between 1994 and 2004.

Before her sentencing, Maxwell, dressed in prison clothes, apologised to the victims. She said she empathised with them and meeting Epstein was “the biggest regret” of her life.

“My association with Epstein will permanently stain me,” she said, adding that she hoped her prison sentence would allow the victims “peace and finality”.

Maxwell has been in custody since her arrest in July 2020, held mostly at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where she has complained of the stink of raw sewage in her cell.