Ghislaine Maxwell Located On Suicide Watch
NEW YORK (REUTERS) - Ghislaine Maxwell mentioned Brooklyn prison staff threatened her protection, prompting employees to region her on suicide watch, prosecutors said on Sunday (June 26), arguing there has been no want to delay her sentencing on sex trafficking fees.
Maxwell, 60, is scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday for her December conviction for helping her then-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein, the globe-trotting financier and convicted sex perpetrator, abuse women between 1994 and 2004. Prosecutors say she merits among 30 and fifty five years in prison.
In courtroom filings on Saturday, Maxwell's attorneys stated she was placed on suicide watch at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) and asked for a put off to her sentencing.
On Sunday, prosecutors argued no put off changed into needed due to the fact Maxwell had her legal documents and will get the same quantity of sleep.
They said Maxwell turned into transferred after reporting threats to her safety by using MDC personnel to the federal Bureau of Prisons' inspector standard.
Maxwell refused to difficult about why she feared for her safety, prosecutors said.
She instructed psychology group of workers she turned into no longer suicidal.
Maxwell's attorneys did not at once reply to a request for comment. The Bureau of Prisons stated it does not comment on any precise inmate's confinement conditions.
Prosecutors said the prison's warden will oversee an research.
"Given the defendant's inconsistent bills to the (inspector trendy) and to psychology staff, the Chief Psychologist assesses the defendant to be at additional chance of self-damage, because it appears she may be attempting to be transferred to a unmarried cellular wherein she will be able to have interaction in self-harm," prosecutors stated in a court filing.
Epstein killed himself in 2019 in a Manhattan prison cell at the same time as looking ahead to trial.
The sentence will be imposed with the aid of US Circuit Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan federal court. Maxwell needs much less than 20 years, arguing she is being made a scapegoat for Epstein's crimes.
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