The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell has speeded to a finish with a prosecutor labelling her a dangerous predator. 9News
has speeded to a finish with a prosecutor labelling her a dangerous and sophisticated predator who recruited and groomed teenage girls to be sexually abused by financier Jeffrey Epstein while a defence lawyer told jurors during closing arguments that Maxwell is an "innocent woman."
Defence lawyer Laura Menninger said prosecutors had failed to prove any charges beyond a reasonable doubt. "She manipulated her victims and groomed them. She caused deep and lasting harm to young girls. It is time to hold her accountable," Ms Moe said. Ms Menninger's closing revisited a theme defence lawyers pressed at the trial's start: that Ms Maxwell was made a scapegoat after Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan federal jail cell in August 2019 as he awaited a sex trafficking trial.Ms Maxwell, 59, was supported in court by four siblings who sat next to one another in the first row of spectators.The judge has denied her bail repeatedly, despite her lawyer's arguments that the pledge of her US$22.
Later, Ms Maxwell turned in her chair toward the jury, sometimes pulling down her black mask to sip from a water bottle.
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