Sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell, 60, a British socialite, was slapped with the penalty for her “instrumental role in the horrific sexual abuse of multiple young teenage girls.”

In addition, she was sentenced to five years of supervised release once she gets out of prison and ordered to pay a $750,000 fine.

Before she was sentenced, Maxwell addressed the court for the first time, telling the victims present in the courtroom that she was "sorry for the pain you have experienced.”