June sentence set for Ghislaine Maxwell in sex traffic case

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted after a month-long trial in which prosecutors maintained that she recruited and groomed teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse from 1994 to 2004.

A late-June sentencing date was set Friday for British socialiteafter her conviction last month on charges including sex trafficking and conspiracy relating to the recruitment of teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.

U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan announced the June 28 date even as she waits to resolve defense claims that a new trial should be ordered after a juror’s public admissions after the verdict about his childhood sexual abuse.

The juror, who has never been fully publicly identified, told media outlets last week that he told other jurors during a week of deliberations that he was sexually abused as a child and used what he learned about the subject to persuade others to convict Maxwell.