Abused her has been testifying in the ghislaine maxwell trial in new york. ms maxwell, who was a close friend of epstein, has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of sex trafficking and other charges. jeffrey epstein, who was a convicted sex offender, died in a new york prison cell in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges in a federal case. nada tawfik has been following events in court. the judge instructed the jury that any of the sex acts she testified about were not to be considered illegal acts. instead, the prosecution really used her to lay out their argument about how ghislaine maxwell really was central tojeffrey epstein s world and specifically this effort of grooming young girls for sexual abuse, and so kate detailed how she first met ghislaine maxwell at 17 years old, at her townhome in london. she went there for tea and she said they immediately really felt at ease with each other. she said she wanted to be like ghislaine maxwell when she was older. ghislaine m
Four years she went to jeffrey epstein s home more than 100 times until she became too old, saying it was always ghislaine maxwell allegedly who set up those meetings. the defence has started cross examination. ghislaine maxwell has denied all charges. they ve honed in on this point that they say it was virginia roberts who introduced her to jeffrey epstein virginia roberts who introduced her tojeffrey epstein and not ghislaine maxwell. the office for national statistics said the rate for men was around double that for women. the 0ns said death rates had remained stable for the previous seven years. safety concerns raised about arthur were ignored before his murder according to his maternal grandfather. peter told the bbc that warnings from
Asked the prosecutor at what point what how much detail do you need me to go into? the prosecutor at one point asked her how she felt when she was summoned tojeffrey epstein and that s when she got emotional saying her heart sank into her stomach because she didn t want to go see him. she also talked about how she talked about hurting herself at that time in her life but she felt there was no one she could talk to about what was happening. she said she felt shame, she was confused, she didn t know why everyone was acting in terms of everyone was acting in terms of everyone in jeffrey s everyone was acting in terms of everyone injeffrey s orbit everyone was acting in terms of everyone in jeffrey s orbit about the sexual encounters that were happening. that is her account. this first accuser in this happening in the indictment. now maxwell watched the indictment. now maxwell watched the entire time looking directly at the entire time looking directly at the woman as she spoke. maxwell ha