Ghislaine Maxwell ‘preyed on vulnerable young girls’, prosecutors say
Maxwell was involved in every detail of Epstein's life', federal prosecutors say in opening arguments
In Ghislaine Maxwell's child sex-trafficking trial, Manhattan federal prosecutors shared a simple, chilling message with jurors in their opening statement: She knew what was going to happen to those girls."
Maxwell preyed on vulnerable young girls, manipulated them and served them up to be sexually abused" by Jeffrey Epstein, said prosecutor Lara Pomerantz. The defendant was trafficking kids for sex.
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