MAXWELL APPEALS AGAINST SEX TRAFFICKING CONVICTION

  • 08/07/2022

Ghislaine Maxwell has filed an appeal against her conviction for child sex trafficking and the 20-year jail sentence that a US judge handed her last month.

In December, Maxwell, 60, received a conviction for enlisting and trafficking four underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, her then-boyfriend, to abuse.

While awaiting his own trial in 2019, Epstein committed suicide in a detention cell in New York.

It was anticipated that Maxwell's appeal would take several months to complete. 

During her trial, her lawyers argued that she was being scapegoated for Epstein's crimes, calling her friendship with the financier the "biggest mistake of her life".

Judge Alison J Nathan rejected attempts to throw out the case, including after Maxwell's lawyers argued that one juror had failed to inform the court that he had been abused as a child.

She also rejected arguments that Maxwell had not been allowed to prepare adequately for her trial, and that prosecutors had waited too long to bring their case against her.

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