Ghislaine Maxwell Ordered To Stay Away From Kids After 20-Year Prison Term

Former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for sex trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, who is believed to have taken his own life in prison in 2019.

Maxwell, now 60, will serve twenty years and then be released into a five-year supervised release program. She will also have to enter into a sex offender treatment program to re-enter society, and, as TMZ reported, that means staying away from kids.

TMZ obtained the legal documents that showed the terms for Maxwell’s release, which will take place after she serves her 20-year prison sentence. Maxwell is forbidden from having contact with anyone under the age of 18 without prior approval from the U.S. Probation Office. She also must stay 100 feet away from places that are frequented by minors, including schools, playgrounds, and other recreational entertainment venues.

Maxwell also will also require approval from her probation officer to view or access the web profile of a user who is under the age of 18, which includes social media platforms, chat rooms, and the like.

Maxwell had been accused of soliciting and grooming minors for abuse between 1994 and 2004. Although many women and underage girls are believed to be the victims of Maxwell and Epstein, only four women took the stand at the trial to talk about the horrific conditions they were subject to.

Last December, a New York jury found Maxwell guilty of sex trafficking, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, and two conspiracy charges.

As AP News reported, Maxwell has denied actively participating in the abuse with Jeffrey Epstein, although several victims have come forward to accuse her of just that.

Federal prosecutors had argued for a prison stay lasting from 30 to 55 years. Maxwell's defense team had argued for a lighter, five-year sentence, insisting that Epstein had been the mastermind of the abuse. However, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe insisted that Ghislaine Maxwell subjected her young victims to “horrifying nightmares” by taking them to Epstein.

Moe said that Epstein and Maxwell “were partners in crime together and they molested these kids together.” She said that Maxwell was “a person who was indifferent to the suffering of other human beings.”

U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan decided on a twenty-year prison sentence, which means that Maxwell will not be released from prison under she is at least 80 years old.

Brave survivors took the stand to tell the jury about their own personal stories of abuse. Four women testified that Maxwell preyed on vulnerable girls who were as young as 14-years-old, and used her power and connections to aid Jeffrey Epstein in abusing them. Although Epstein is believed to have taken his own life in 2019, prosecutors said that he sexually abused children more than a hundred times over the past decade, and was only able to do so with Maxwell’s help.

However, Ghislaine Maxwell continued to insist that it was Epstein who was behind most of the abuse. When she was allowed to speak, Maxwell called him “a manipulative, cunning and controlling man who lived a profoundly compartmentalized life.” She added that the “greatest regret of my life was that I ever met Jeffrey Epstein.”

Despite victims testifying that Maxwell had joined in the abuse, Maxwell denied ever abusing anyone. Instead, she said that she hoped her conviction and her “unusual incarceration” bring some “measure of peace and finality” to the case that has dominated headlines over the past few years.

Several victims came forward with allegations of abuse, including Annie Farmer, who said that she and other survivors “will continue to live with the harm she caused us.”