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offender who is now dead partners in crime or was she a scapegoat for his crimes? that letter plaintiff certainly what the defence had focused their strategy on. they had said ghislaine maxwell was an innocent woman and that after epstein had killed himself injail two years ago whilst awaiting his own sex trafficking trial, the government had gone after her because they couldn t go after him. they said that she was being used as some sort of proxy through which the accusers of epstein could have their day in court. now, for the prosecution, it was a very different case they presented to the jury. they said regardless of what happened to epstein two years ago, ghislaine maxwell was independently guilty and culpable and therefore worthy of being prosecuted and convicted for her crimes. they say she was not an innocent woman, an innocent bystander as the defence had maintained, that someone who has an employee in and out of his life,
were filed in reference to miss maxwell at best trial. but it has been a long journey and as the us attorney said, and i even said it before he did, none of this could have happened without the courage of the victims. they testified very bravely they were cross examined vigorously by the defence, their motives were questioned, and they just held their heads up and with dignity at all of the questions. they made many sacrifices for the cause ofjustice. others who alleged they were victims also shared information with law enforcement, as my clients did. as a result, miss maxwell was convicted. this does send a message to other sexual predators and those who were
women. ghisliane maxwell will be sentenced at a later date. but it seems extremely likely that she ll spend the rest of her life behind bars. a final fall from grace for the british former socialite, who a jury here has decided wasn t just a bystander to the crimes ofjeffrey epstein, but was herself a predator and an active participant in the sexual abuse of teenagers. aleem maqbool, bbc news in new york. lots of reaction to this. our correspondent nomia iqbaljoins us now from new york. nomia, how significant is this verdict? good morning. this is hugely significant, particularly for the victims, the accusers of epstein and maxwell. this trial was built on the testimony of four women. that was the prosecution s pace. the number
blame themselves, they feel ashamed and felt somehow responsible. under age girls are not the ones who are responsible. it is people like jeffrey epstein and miss maxwell. those are the ones who knew better and they had this pattern, this scheme, and they had this method of recruiting and bringing them in and normalising the situation, having their young girls thinking they were going to do a massage for $200 and after that they were sexually abused and that was a shock to say many and has left long lasting trauma and damage on the victims themselves. hank you so much for speaking to us this morning. gloria, a lawyer representing 20 ofjeffrey epstein s accusers. good morning. here s matt with a look at this morning s weather.