Prosecution rests in sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors astatine the proceedings of Ghislaine Maxwell person completed presenting their lawsuit against the British socialite.

Maxwell is accused of sexually abusing teenage girls with her precocious companion, financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Earlier Friday, cardinal accuser Annie Farmer testified that Maxwell and Epstein forced themselves connected her during a 1996 sojourn to Epstein’s sprawling New Mexico ranch erstwhile she was conscionable 16.

"He climbed into furniture with maine and benignant of laid down maine and reached his arms astir maine and similar pressed his assemblage into me," Farmer testified, according to CNN.

Farmer is 1 of respective women who testified that they were abused by Maxwell and Epstein.

Maxwell has denied charges she groomed underage girls for Epstein, who killed himself successful jailhouse successful 2019.

Her lawyers accidental the authorities is making her a scapegoat for alleged enactment crimes committed by her onetime fellow and moved instantly for a judgement of acquittal Friday afternoon. The petition was rejected.

The proceedings volition resume connected Thursday with the defence presenting its case.

The intermission is successful the proceedings is owed to the judge's scheduling conflict.