Ghislaine Maxwell Placed On Suicide Watch, But Isn’t Suicidal, Beforehand Of Sentencing

Guards on the federal prison wherein Ghislaine Maxwell awaits her sentencing for her function in an complex infant sexual abuse case have positioned her on suicide watch, though she isn’t suicidal, consistent with courtroom records.

The pass precipitated the British socialite’s attorney to write a letter telling the decide in the case that Maxwell could are seeking to postpone her sentencing Tuesday due to the fact she will’t well put together for the listening to. Prison officials on Friday took away Maxwell’s legal papers – along with her everyday garments, toothpaste and cleaning soap – even as putting her in solitary confinement and on suicide watch, stated the letter from her legal professional Bobby Sternheim.

“If Ms Maxwell stays on suicide watch, is unlawful from reviewing felony topics prior to sentencing, becomes sleep-deprived and is denied enough time to satisfy with and refer to counsel, we will be officially transferring on Monday for an adjournment,” Sternheim’s letter to Judge Alison Nathan said Saturday.

Sternheim’s letter introduced that a psychologist evaluated Maxwell, 61, and concluded she is not suicidal. But her sentencing comes almost 3 years after her co-defendant, financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, killed himself in prison in August 2019 even as expecting trial inside the sex trafficking case that also ensnared Maxwell.

Maxwell become convicted on 29 December of sex trafficking and related charges filed towards her in Manhattan federal court docket after she recruited ladies – a few as young as 14 – for Epstein to abuse. Nathan should sentence Maxwell to as much as fifty five years in prison.

Her legal professionals on Friday requested Nathan to bar 4 accusers from imparting victim effect statements at the sentencing hearing tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, arguing that they had been adults after they encountered Maxwell and consequently did now not have the right to speak at the proceeding.

Nathan hasn’t dominated on that request. Maxwell has maintained her innocence regardless of her conviction.