Ghislaine Maxwell Gave A Non-Apology To Victims After Being Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

Disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein

found guilty on five of six sex trafficking and conspiracy charges Jeffrey Epstein who died by suicide in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial

Maxwell’s lawyers argued she should be sentenced to five years in jail. They said she had been seen as the scapegoat for Epstein.

Prosecutors last week called for Maxwell to be sentenced to 30 to 55 years in jail. They said Epstein couldn’t have abused his victims without her help and called her conduct “shockingly predatory”.

Alison Nathan said

“It is hard for me to address the court after listening to the pain and anguish expressed in the statements made here today,” she said.

“I believe that Jeffrey Epstein was a manipulative, cunning and controlling man who lived a profoundly compartmentalised life and fooled all of those in his orbit.”

Ghislaine’s Statement made to the Court at her Sentencing:https://t.co/ny2DzRvELc

— RealGhislaine (@RealGhislaine) June 28, 2022

“I hope my conviction and harsh incarceration brings you closure, peace and finality.”

Sarah Ramsome told reporters

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sexually abuse underage girls. She was in December, including sex trafficking a minor, enticing a minor to travel, transporting a minor and three counts of conspiracy relating to the three previous charges. Maxwell was the long-time partner of billionaire paedophile , . She was charged for helping him lure in girls as young as 14 who prosecutors said he abused hundreds of times between 1994 and 2004. US District Judge “a very significant sentence is necessary” and that the court wanted to send an “unmistakable message” that sex trafficking crimes would not go unpunished. In court Maxwell said meeting Epstein was her “greatest regret”, but didn’t go so far as to apologise for her own role. She told victims she was “sorry for the pain that you experienced”. Victims said Maxwell’s apology “doesn’t cut it”. outside of the courthouse: “I wish she was sorry when she was busy forcing me into a room to be raped. She should have been sorry then.” “To force someone into a room to be raped — there’s not enough ‘sorry’s in the world. ‘I am sorry’ doesn’t cut it,” she said. “And as far as I’m concerned actions speak louder than words.”