MANHATTAN (CN) — A Second Circuit panel on Tuesday unanimously upheld Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal sex trafficking convictions, finding no errors in the lower court’s handling of pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein's nonprosecution deal and other issues on appeal.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the sex trafficking offense of Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for assisting late sex-trafficking financier Jeffrey Epstein.The Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Maxwell will remain in a Florida prison,

Ghislaine Maxwell’s desperate appeal of her sex trafficking conviction was rejected Tuesday by the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. Maxwell, 62, is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit young women and underage girls for sexual abuse under the guise of massages and financial support.