Prosecutors have ordered Ghislaine Maxwell to receive between 30-55 years in prison. (File)
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According to her attorney, Ghislaine Maxwell, a jailed former socialite, has been placed on a suicide watch – although not a suicide – according to her attorney, they have said they will postpone sentencing. her for sex trafficking if she remains isolated.
“Ms. Maxwell was abruptly removed from the general population and returned to solitary confinement” on Friday, attorney Bobbi Sternheim wrote in a letter Saturday to Judge Alison Nathan.
He added that she had been denied access to legal documents and time to see a lawyer and this had “prevented her from preparing for sentencing”.
Maxwell, who was convicted in New York federal court for abetting the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls, has been placed on a suicide note without a psychological assessment.” and there is no justification,” Sternheim said.
A psychologist evaluated the 60-year-old man on Saturday and “determined that she was not suicidal,” he added.
If Maxwell is still watching the suicide, her lawyers will move to Monday to postpone sentencing for her, Sternheim said.
The Oxford-trained daughter of the late British press baron Robert Maxwell was convicted late last year on five of six counts of sexual abuse, the most serious sentence for a sex-trafficking minor. education and her sentence could be up to life behind bars.
Prosecutors have ordered Maxwell to receive between 30 and 55 years in prison.
Her attorneys have called on Nathan to give Nathan the 20-year lower sentence recommended by the US probation office, citing a traumatic childhood and alleging that Maxwell is being unfairly punished because Epstein evaded trial. .
Epstein committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial for his own sex offender in New York.
Maxwell was remanded in custody for about two years after she was arrested in New Hampshire in the summer of 2020.
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