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United States Court of Appeals confirmed the guilty verdict on Tuesday and 20 years in prison for the British heiress Ghislaine Maxwell for providing underage girls to a billionaire Jeffrey Epstein so that he could sexually abuse them for ten years.
Maxwell filed an appeal test result at the end of 2021 in which it was announced cguilty on five countsincluding child trafficking for sexual exploitation, and which occurred approximately two years after the suicide of his former partner and lover Epstein, while he awaited trial for these crimes.
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Federal Court of Appeals rejected the appeal on Tuesday Maxwell, 62, in which she claimed to be under judicial protection a 2007 agreement signed between Epstein and Florida prosecutors after another incident, and also reported that They judged her as if she were a deceased financier.
However, the appellate court found that the conviction and sentence were “procedurally reasonable” and that the above agreement with Florida prosecutors was binding only in that jurisdiction.
“TO failure to detect errors in district court In this difficult case “We confirm the sentencing decision of June 29, 2022.”the panel of judges indicates in its document.
Lawyers for Maxwell, who remains in maximum security prison in floridatold the media that they plan to appeal Supreme Court of the United States.
During the process Prosecutors alleged that Maxwell targeted “younger, prettier and more vulnerable” girls. with families in difficult situations, always with an absent father, and he seduced them with his “refined” style until he took them, always without company, to Epstein’s Mansions.
Four alleged victims offered their testimony in the process tell how Maxwell earned his trust. and how he seduced them until force them into the clutches of a billionaireand they said they did it to show the wounds they had carried throughout their lives.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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