A VICTIM of Ghislaine Maxwell could not testify if the socialite is granted a retrial as she can't "undergo it once more."
It comes as earlier this week Maxwell's legal professionals filed for a retrial simply weeks after she was convicted.
Her attorneys reportedly requested her intercourse trafficking conviction be overturned after juror Scotty David, did not disclose he was sexually abused as a toddler earlier than the trial.
The socialite is at the moment in solitary confinement on suicide watch in New York as she awaits sentencing later this yr and is alleged to be studying Russian to "preserve her sanity" behind bars.
She is barely allowed paper garments, can't have a pen nor paper and books are off-limits.
And it has emerged if Maxwell is granted a second listening to, prosecutions can be compelled to placed on a brand new case with out certainly one of their 4 witnesses, or discover different alleged victims, as a supply advised the Telegraph a lady "couldn't undergo it once more."
The supply mentioned: “Numerous the trauma resurfaced for her and all these ladies. It took a lot for them to do it the primary time, I feel reliving it might be an excessive amount of to bear.
“The entire state of affairs is simply very unlucky.”
A number of of the victims who gave proof on the trial didn't come ahead with the allegation till many years after the abuse and three solely agreed to testify beneath pseudonyms to guard their id.
Carolyn Andriano, 35, has now waived her proper to anonymity to share her full information of Virginia's alleged encounter.
The 35-year-old advised the Day by day Mail she spoke out as she “needed folks to know these horrible issues have occurred to me and that I'm a survivor.”
Final month, 60-year-old Maxwell was discovered responsible of intercourse trafficking and grooming ladies for paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to abuse.
The jury of six ladies and 6 males convicted her on 5 out of six counts as she was discovered not responsible of engaging a minor to interact in an unlawful intercourse act after greater than 40 hours of deliberation.
Prosecutors, who've requested an inquiry into the juror's statements is carried out, could have till February 2 to reply to Maxwell's movement.
U.S. District Choose Alison Nathan final week scheduled Maxwell's sentencing listening to for June 28.
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