Ghislaine Maxwell, who was a partner and partner of financier Jeffrey Epstein and who in December was convicted as an ally of his plot for crimes of sex trafficking, conspiracy and transportation of a minor for illicit sexual activity, has been sentenced this Tuesday to spend 20 years in jail and pay a fine of $750,000.
The decision has been adopted in a New York court by the Judge Alison Nathan, which has determined that it should use sentencing guidelines from the time when the abuses were committed, between 1994 and 2004, and not the current ones. With this, the sentence for Maxwell has been below the sentence of between 30 and 55 years in prison requested by the prosecution.
Maxwell has been convicted of participating directly and repeatedly over many years in a scheme to lure, transport and traffic in underage girlsSome as young as 14 years old. “normalized sexual abuse” and the damage done to these young girls was incalculable, thus “requiring a substantial sentence”: “The rule of law requires that whether you are rich and powerful or totally unknown, no one is above the law“.
The case of Maxwell, 60 years old, has been followed with expectation and has helped shed light on the plot of sexual abuse that Epstein hatched. And although the defense has already advanced that it will appeal, it sends to prison a woman who for at least a decade was recruiting underage youth and preparing them to be sexually abused by the financier, sometimes personally participating in these abuses.
Maxwell’s Witness
After hearing the witnesses of Maxwell’s victims, the condemned has lamented the pain and anguish of the statements: “The terrible impact on the lives of so many women is difficult to hear and even more difficult to assimilate, both in its scale and in its scope.” Still, she has accepted that she wanted to acknowledge that suffering: “I deeply empathize with all the victims in this case.”
The condemned has expressed that her ex-partner Jeffrey Epstein, was a manipulative, cunning and controlling man that 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 jail in what was officially ruled a suicide. That certification did not prevent conspiracy theories from being triggered, especially given the numerous prominent personalities, from politics, academia, and business over whom shadows were cast due to their proximity to the financier.
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None of those renowned figures has been more singled out in this case than the Prince Andrew of England, accused by one of Epstein and Maxwell’s victims, Virginia Giuffre, of forcing her to have sex. The prince reached an out-of-court agreement in February to avoid civil trial but the British royal house has removed him from official activities due to the scandal and has stripped him of his military titles.
With Maxwell’s arrest in July 2020 in the luxurious rural residence where he had hidden in New Hampshire, and with his judicial process, the defense has ensured that the authorities were trying to cover up errors and that his client was the scapegoat they sat on a bench in which they could not get to place Epstein. But the justice ruled that she was also a “sophisticated predator who knew exactly what she was doing & rdquor ;, who manipulated the victims and prepared them for sexual abuse and who, in addition, helped to “normalize & rdquor; those abuses, being present when Epstein committed them or participating in them. As the prosecution recalled in the trial, in addition, Maxwell has shown “absolute lack of remorse & rdquor ;.