{"id":18010,"date":"2020-12-29T07:11:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T12:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=18010"},"modified":"2020-12-29T07:11:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T12:11:03","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-denied-28-5m-bail-in-sex-crime-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2020\/12\/29\/ghislaine-maxwell-denied-28-5m-bail-in-sex-crime-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell denied $28.5m bail in sex crime case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A US judge has turned down a $28.5m (\u00a321.4m) bail package by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell who is awaiting trial on sex crime charges.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The New York ruling said the suspect, 59, poses a flight risk and the offer did not assure her appearance at future hearings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She is accused of helping the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein groom young girls, which she denies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is the second time bail for Ms Maxwell has been denied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She has been in jail in Brooklyn, New York City since\u00a0she was arrested in July\u00a0<\/a>at her secluded mansion in the state of New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lawyers suggested she had been hiding out at the mansion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Her bail package proposed that she be allowed to return home with armed guards to prevent her from escaping.<\/p>\n

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Lawyers objected to her prison conditions, saying she was subject to invasive searches and that guards disturbed her every 15 minutes to check she was still alive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But prosecutors said there was a risk that, if bailed, Ms Maxwell could use her wealth to flee to France or the UK where she is a citizen and suggested she might try to avoid extradition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Maxwell was in a relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s. He died in a prison cell in August last year as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges, more than a decade after he was convicted for soliciting prostitution from a minor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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