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00:00As the Justice Department continues to look into the case of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein,

00:06one thing should be certain.

00:07Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell should remain behind bars.

00:13Maxwell, Epstein's longtime friend and co-conspirator, met with top Justice Department officials last week.

00:20This has caused buzz that she may be seeking a pardon in return for information about Epstein's activities and associates.

00:26President Trump on Monday said that no one has yet approached him about pardoning Maxwell,

00:31but reiterated that he would be allowed to.

00:34Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that it would be a great service to the country if Maxwell comes clean,

00:40but that she should serve out her prison sentence.

00:44He's right. Information from Maxwell could be useful,

00:47but giving her any kind of deal that would shorten her prison sentence or absolve her of guilt in any way

00:52should be completely off the table.

00:55This is a woman who spent a decade preying on teen girls,

00:59luring them to Epstein's residences with the full knowledge

01:03that this would result in them being subjected to sexual abuse.

01:07After her conviction and sentencing in 2022,

01:10the Justice Department laid out Maxwell and Epstein's sick process for finding victims.

01:16Maxwell fully participated in the grooming process,

01:19befriending often vulnerable girls and earning their trust to make it easy for Epstein to take advantage of them.

01:27Some of these girls were as young as 14 years old.

01:31Epstein may have been a predator with or without Maxwell,

01:34but he almost certainly wouldn't have been as successful without her help.

01:38We will never know how many girls could have been spared a lifetime of trauma

01:43if Maxwell had not delivered them up to a pedophile on a silver platter.

01:48And with Epstein dying in jail while his case was awaiting trial in 2019,

01:53Maxwell's conviction was the one bit of justice that victims were given.

01:57There are other ways to get information out of Maxwell.

02:01The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed her testimony for a deposition on August 11th,

02:06and Maxwell is apparently still mulling over whether or not to participate.

02:11Of course, if she does testify, anything she says will have to be independently verified,

02:16since she has a history of allegedly lying under oath.

02:20There is no reason to take her at her word on anything.

02:23That makes trading a pardon or a shortened sentence for whatever secrets she's supposedly offering

02:30make even less sense.

02:32Maxwell earned every one of the 20 years she got,

02:35and she should serve her sentence in its entirety.

02:40Anything less would be a deep injustice and an insult to victims.