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Prosecutors are pushing for Ghislaine Maxwell to be sentenced to 30 to 55 years in prison for her role in sex trafficking teenage girls who were sexually abused by deceased millionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who was once her boyfriend.

Prosecutors made their written request to Judge Allison J. Nathan on Wednesday night. Maxwell is set to be sentenced on Tuesday in a federal court in Manhattan.

The British socialite was found guilty by a jury in December 2021 on five of six counts of sex trafficking charges following a month-long trial. Four women testified during the trial that Maxwell had even participated in the abuse in addition to facilitating Epstein’s crimes, CNN reported.

“As part of a disturbing agreement with Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell identified, groomed, and abused multiple victims, while she enjoyed a life of extraordinary luxury and privilege,” the prosecution team wrote in their request, per the Associated Press (AP). “In her wake, Maxwell left her victims permanently scarred with emotional and psychological injuries.”

Maxwell’s lawyers requested last week that she be sentenced to around five years in prison, arguing that she should not be targeted for Epstein’s crimes, as he was the ringleader who “orchestrated the crimes for his personal gratification,” the AP reported. The defense attorney’s recommendation is well under the 20-year sentence that the court’s probation department recommended, the New York Times noted.

The defense lawyer also reasoned that after Epstein’s 2019 suicide in prison, Maxwell was targeted by prosecutors to “‘repair the tarnished reputations’ of the Justice Department and the Bureau of Prisons, in whose custody the disgraced financier died,” per the Times. The newspaper also reported that the defense asked the judge to consider placing blame on Maxwell’s father, Robert, saying he was “cruel and intimidating.”