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To have zero sympathy for Ghislaine Maxwell's 20 year sentence?

70 replies

Mememene · 28/06/2022 20:49

She says she has been vilified and 'tried in 'court of public opinion':

I think she got away with it for way too long and might even believe her own BS. I have no sympathy and she is where she belongs.

Am I being unreasonable to think 20 years is not enough?

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AnyFucker · 28/06/2022 20:51

She deserves it. But so do all the men that used her “services”… where is their punishment ?

Purplespup16 · 28/06/2022 21:00

You are definitely NOT being unreasonable! She won’t serve the full 20 years which is really gut wrenching. She is clearly not repentative.

the80sweregreat · 28/06/2022 21:04

She should sing like a canary and get some of the men involved in prison too
Start naming names. She won't I bet
No sympathy here . Should be longer.

Germolenequeen · 28/06/2022 21:06

Deserves all that and more - vile person

CathyorClaire · 28/06/2022 21:18

She should have had longer.

I think she'll apply as soon as she can for an allegedly softer UK deal but the more pertinent question now is where are the men who should be standing trial?

They can't all have rich mummies who can make it go away.

Florenz · 28/06/2022 21:20

They should have given her the death sentence and then got her to name names to avoid the electric chair and have her sentence commuted to life.

ElephantsFart · 28/06/2022 21:22

CathyorClaire · 28/06/2022 21:18

She should have had longer.

I think she'll apply as soon as she can for an allegedly softer UK deal but the more pertinent question now is where are the men who should be standing trial?

They can't all have rich mummies who can make it go away.

Quite

Jalepenojello · 28/06/2022 21:23

its Absolutely not enough OP. I would hope she is there for the rest of her life.

Tlollj · 28/06/2022 21:23

Don’t feel sorry for her at all. But where are the men? Why aren’t any men in the dock with her?

Onesmallstepforaman · 28/06/2022 21:28

20 years isn't enough, and there should be no remission. Those that were trafficked and preyed upon have a life sentence. As p.p. have said, what about the rich,powerful men who are known to have used these young women.

the80sweregreat · 28/06/2022 21:28

The men always get away with it
Nothing much changes.

stealtheatingtunnocks · 28/06/2022 21:29

It is a death sentence. Suspect the low sentence is in return for knowledge, or designed to look like that. Someone will get her.

im not remotely sympathetic, ans I’m a bleeding heart. I hope she is scared to go to sleep for a long time.

the men have got away with it, rich and powerful men always do. They had their useful Royal idiot and their madam scapegoat. Both will already be replaced and a whole new cohort of women will be being exploited. And so the world turns.

—kicks stuff—

EL8888 · 28/06/2022 21:30

@CathyorClaire all true

Where are the men? Her look out if she wants to let them get of Scot free. I have zero sympathy due to what she. Plus her sense of entitlement and lack of remorse

User34352515 · 28/06/2022 21:34

Surely she must be sitting on a shocking trove of info/blackmail material and will most likely die in prison. She clearly has nothing to lose anymore and might as well take a lot of high-profile people down with her.

kieronsmum · 28/06/2022 21:40

she will have a "tragic accident" with a sheet very soon anyway

Nat6999 · 28/06/2022 21:40

Prince Andrew should be serving 20 years as well, he shouldn't have been able to buy his way our of it.

SmileyPiuPiu · 28/06/2022 21:42

Why do you think you're unreasonable? No one has sympathy for her!

HRTQueen · 28/06/2022 21:44

Deserves to serve at least 20 years but she won’t

it’s tragic Jeffrey Epstein was able to take his own life rather than serve a long prison sentence

I hope many more as we know there is many of them are bought to justice I doubt that shall happen though

Mememene · 28/06/2022 21:47

kieronsmum · 28/06/2022 21:40

she will have a "tragic accident" with a sheet very soon anyway

I was thinking this, she holds a lot of information on rich and powerful abusers, she needs to expose them for her own sake.Not because she has a shred of decency because she doesn't but before she is topped.

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Mememene · 28/06/2022 21:54

SmileyPiuPiu · 28/06/2022 21:42

Why do you think you're unreasonable? No one has sympathy for her!

Thought some may have thought it was a fair sentence as no one was murdered. For me the years it spanned, the number of victims and that she's still protecting rich and powerful abusers, I would let her rot in there.

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Mememene · 28/06/2022 21:55

HRTQueen · 28/06/2022 21:44

Deserves to serve at least 20 years but she won’t

it’s tragic Jeffrey Epstein was able to take his own life rather than serve a long prison sentence

I hope many more as we know there is many of them are bought to justice I doubt that shall happen though

I think Epstein was topped.

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SmileyPiuPiu · 28/06/2022 21:56

Mememene · 28/06/2022 21:54

Thought some may have thought it was a fair sentence as no one was murdered. For me the years it spanned, the number of victims and that she's still protecting rich and powerful abusers, I would let her rot in there.

Ah I see. No I think it's fair.

ldontWanna · 28/06/2022 22:00

I was thinking this, she holds a lot of information on rich and powerful abusers, she needs to expose them for her own sake.Not because she has a shred of decency because she doesn't but before she is topped.

Keeping quiet is the only reason why she hasn't been "suicided" yet. There's no reason to, plus it would cause too much scrutiny/risk. However, if there is even the slightest indication she might cooperate she'll be dead before they put a pen in her hand.

LilianLenton · 28/06/2022 22:03

User34352515 · 28/06/2022 21:34

Surely she must be sitting on a shocking trove of info/blackmail material and will most likely die in prison. She clearly has nothing to lose anymore and might as well take a lot of high-profile people down with her.

She's probably hoping to get a deal to be transferred to a more secure/safer unit. She knows that if she testifies she increases the risk that she'll go the same way as Epstein.

Personally I have zero sympathy for her & hope every minute she's inside is as wretched as the time she inflicted on the girls she trafficked.

Floella22 · 28/06/2022 22:04

I think Maxwell should get a stiff punishment.
But.
It’s typical imo that all the rich and powerful men are nameless and free to have sex with more young girls and the only person prosecuted happens to be a woman.

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