Ghislaine Maxwell Placed On Suicide Watch In Advance Of Sentencing
Ghislaine Maxwell has been put on suicide watch at the Brooklyn prison where she is being held ahead of her sentencing this week, her attorney said on Saturday night. Bobbi Sternheim, Maxwell’s lawyer, wrote to the decide overseeing the British socialite’s case to say she would would are searching for a postpone to the sentencing hearing if kept under watch. Maxwell turned into convicted on 29 December on five criminal counts, such as sex trafficking, for recruiting and grooming four ladies for past due billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004. She is due in Manhattan Federal Court for sentencing on Tuesday. But Ms Sternheim said her client became “not able to nicely prepare for sentencing” after officers at the Metropolitan Detention Centre on Friday declared the suicide watch and all at once moved Maxwell, 60, to solitary confinement. Ms Sternheim stated Maxwell changed into given a “suicide smock” and her garb, toothpaste, cleaning soap and legal pape...