The conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell capped a month-long trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14.
The British socialite was found guilty on Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
Four women described being abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein's palatial homes in Florida, New York and New Mexico.
In an interview with ABC News, one of Maxwell's accusers, Annie Farmer, said the jury "sent a strong message, adding that she hoped investigations would continue.
"I wasn't sure that this day would ever come. And I just feel so grateful that the jury believed us and sent a strong message that perpetrators of sexual abuse and
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