60 -year -old, incarcerated in New York, Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice was sentenced at first instance to twenty years’ imprisonment.
Le Monde with AFP
The Epstein affair is not yet closed. The former British former world Ghislaine Maxwell called on his sentence to New York to twenty years in prison for sexual trafficking of minors, according to a judicial document published Thursday, July 8. The document does not detail the arguments of his lawyers, who had already announced their intention to appeal during the pronouncement of the sentence on June 28.
The daughter of the British media magnate Robert Maxwell (died in 1991) and accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in prison in New York in August 2019 before his trial for sexual crimes on minors, incurred 55 years in prison . She had been found guilty at the end of December of five of the six counts weighed on her, the most serious sexual trafficking of minors on behalf of Epstein, a financier with powerful economic and political relays.
Returning of a sexual predator
During the trial, four victims of the sexual exploitation system of minor girls set up by Jeffrey Epstein, had testified to the role played by Ghislaine Maxwell, his former partner, to recruit them, between 1994 and 2004. The defense had tried to minimize the role played by the former figure of the international jet set, who had herself rejected responsibility on Jeffrey Epstein, presenting him as “a manipulator” when she expressed himself before the Federal Court of Manhattan on June 28.
His lawyers also argued that among the victims, aged 14 to 17, some had exceeded the age of consent at the time of the facts, in the states where they had been committed. Finally, they had questioned the impartiality of one of the jurors of the Manhattan court where she had been found guilty, because he had failed to reveal during the jury selection procedure that he had himself been the victim sexual violence in his childhood.