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Ghislaine Maxwell appeals 20-year prison sentence for child sex trafficking

Former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has appealed her 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking minors in New York for financier Jeffrey Epstein, according to a court document released Thursday (July 7). The document does not elaborate on the arguments of his lawyers, who had already announced their intention to appeal when the verdict was handed down on June 28.

The daughter of British media mogul Robert Maxwell (died 1991) and accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in a New York prison in August 2019 before his trial for sex crimes against minors, faces up to 55 years in prison. In late December, he was convicted of five of the six charges against him, including the most serious, sex trafficking of minors on behalf of Epstein, a financier with powerful economic and political relays.

During the trial, four victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s scheme to sexually exploit underage girls testified about Ghislaine Maxwell’s role in recruiting them between 1994 and 2004. Defense tried to minimize. the role of a former international jet-set figure who himself accused Jeffrey Epstein of portraying him as; “manipulator” on June 28 when he appeared in federal court in Manhattan.

His attorneys also argued that some of the victims, ages 14 to 17, were over the age of consent at the time of the incidents in the states where they occurred. Finally, they questioned the impartiality of one of the jurors in the Manhattan trial where he was found guilty because he did not disclose during the jury selection process that he had been sexually abused as a child.

Source: Le Figaro

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