Victims of the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and her former partner, the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein, welcomed a jury's decision Wednesday finding Maxwell guilty of child sex trafficking u.afp.com/wcZc
VIDEO: British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty in New York of recruiting and grooming young girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell faces spending the rest of her life behind bars after the 12-person jury convicted her on five of the six counts
US prosecutors drop charges against two New York prison guards who were on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell in 2019.

The ex-guards who admitted falsifying records that night, completed community service as part of a legal deal

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New York sex-trafficking trial.

#AFPgraphics factfile on Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell was found guilty December 29 on five of the six counts she was facing

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