In a closing argument, a prosecutor said Maxwell caused lasting harm to young girls by recruiting and grooming them to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe told the jury that Epstein could not have preyed on teenage girls for more than a decade without the help of the British socialite, who she described as the “lady of the house” as Epstein abused girls at a New York mansion, a Florida estate and a ranch in New Mexico.Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein associate accused of sex trafficking, sits wearing a borrowed oversize coat during a charging conference in a courtroom sketch in New York City, U.S.
“She manipulated her victims and groomed them. She caused deep and lasting harm to young girls. It is time to hold her accountable,” Moe said.It will be followed by defense arguments, when Maxwell’s team will once again go back to the idea that she was made a scapegoat after Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan federal jail cell in August 2019 as he awaited a sex trafficking trial.
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