{"id":148528,"date":"2021-12-29T22:57:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=148528"},"modified":"2021-12-29T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T22:57:19","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-found-guilty-of-helping-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/ghislaine-maxwell-found-guilty-of-helping-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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"Predator" Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of luring young girls to massage rooms for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to molest.<\/p>\n

Ghislaine, 59, daughter of media mogul Robert, was accused of procuring young girls for Epstein and even colluding in the abuse he carried out.<\/p>\n

Throughout the trial, flirtatious pictures of the pair were seen as accusations rained down on Maxwell with complainants accusing her of luring girls to Epstein's sick lair.<\/p>\n

Now Maxwell has been found guilty of five out of six charges.<\/p>\n

As the verdict was read, Maxwell appeared to show little reaction behind a black mask. She stood with her hands folded as the jury filed out and glanced at her siblings as she herself was led from the courtroom, but was otherwise stoic.<\/p>\n

It came more than two years after her former boyfriend and convicted paedophile died in prison while awaiting his court case on trafficking charges.<\/p>\n

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Conspiracy theories abounded surrounding his death, the official reason for which was given as suicide by hanging.<\/p>\n

Today's verdict came after the trial was shown a 'torpedo sex toy' obtained from the mansion of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. <\/p>\n

Officers seized the key evidence, which includes a \u2018Twin Torpedo\u2019 sex toy and a massage table from the property in Florida in 2005. <\/p>\n

Palm Beach officer sergeant Michael Dawson told the court that officers were specifically looking for massage equipment and sex toys when the warrant was issued on Epstein\u2019s property.<\/p>\n

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As reported by the New York Post, he said: "We were looking for massage tables. We were looking for massage oils. We were looking for sex toys."<\/p>\n

Epstein's former house manager, Juan Alessi, testified that Epstein was receiving about three massages every day by the time he left his job in 2002.<\/p>\n

Alessi called Maxwell the "lady of the house" and would often direct him to schedule Epstein's massages.<\/p>\n

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During the trial this week, an accuser, who was identified to the Manhattan court as 'Jane', spoke of how Epstein liked to use vibrators.<\/p>\n

She told the court Epstein would touch her sexually during the encounters while alleging Maxwell sometimes participated, as reported by Reuters.<\/p>\n

Maxwell protested her innocence throughout the case, denying she took part in any of the abuse of minors committed by Epstein and claiming that she was being treated as a scapegoat. <\/p>\n

But prosecutors said she "preyed on vulnerable young girls, manipulated them, and served them up to be sexually abused" by Epstein.<\/p>\n

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Four accusers came forwards in the case, of which one, Annie Farmer, chose to waive their right to anonymity and use their real name.<\/p>\n

The others were known in the case just as Jane, Kate, and Carolyn.<\/p>\n

Jane testified that Epstein started to abuse her in 1994 when she was just 14 and that Maxwell was sometimes present for the abuse, and even participated.<\/p>\n

"There were hands everywhere," she recalled of an encounter with the pair, which continued until she was 16.<\/p>\n