Ghislaine Maxwell was accused for the first time of child sex trafficking: he allegedly paid a 14 year old girl to perform “sex acts” with Jeffrey Epstein

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan, New York, They filed new sex trafficking charges against Ghislaine Maxwell on Monday, the partner and associate of Jeffrey Epstein. They claim that the woman for years paid a 14-year-old girl to perform “sexual acts” with the deceased financier.

As reported The New York Times, the document guarantees that the behavior took place several times between 2001 and 2004 at the Palm Beach, Florida home. At that point, the girl was to give Epstein massages while she was naked and then perform the aforementioned “sex acts”.

After every opportunity, he allegedly gave her hundreds of dollars and some lingerie as payment. He also allegedly encouraged her to recruit other minors to give Epstein “sex massages”.

The revelations are part of an expansion of the allegations against Maxwell, the first time they have included charges of child sex trafficking. Previously, the crimes attributed to him they had to recruit minors and then sexually abuse them.

Other documents that were no longer classified this year cite witnesses who say how Maxwell forced girls to participate in orgies as she and the late billionaire watched.

A witness claimed that “I saw Maxwell lead a room full of underage girls to kiss, dance and touch each other sexually for (her) and Epstein to see”.

This same anonymous witness “cried as he said that (Maxwell) had brought a 15-year-old girl to her employer who, in great distress, told her that (Maxwell) had stolen the young woman’s passport and attempted to do so. she had sex with Epstein and then threatened her. “

These disturbing allegations have surfaced in thousands of court documents that have come to light in a lawsuit against Maxwell by Epstein’s prosecutor Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who says the duo loaned him out to have sex with powerful men. including Prince Andrew of Great Britaina.

Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to the charges, filed a year after Epstein’s arrest and charged with sex trafficking, after which he committed suicide in a cell in 2019. Authorities have denied Maxwell the opportunity to be released on bail three times, the most recent on March 22, after she was arrested in July 2020..

After unsuccessfully seeking her release in July and December 2020, the daughter of the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell offered this time to relinquish her British and French nationality to allay prosecutors’ fears of moving abroad to escape American justice.

Maxwell has denounced what he considers excessive surveillance, including a lamp that scans his cell ceiling every 15 minutes at night, due to suspected suicide risks. Last month, he claimed to have suffered “physical abuse” at the hands of the guards at his Brooklyn prison..

But Manhattan Federal Judge Alison Nathan ruled that “no combination of conditions” could “reasonably” guarantee that he would appear in court if released before his trial, which is scheduled to begin in July.O.

Maxwell faces a slew of charges, including trafficking in minors and incitement to prostitution between 1994 and 1997, as well as lying under oath in 2016 in civil proceedings. If found guilty, she could be sentenced to life in prison.

KEEP READING: