@MarlonEttinger
The thing I'm happiest about is that the jury believed Carolyn. She was count 6, and represents the longest possible jail sentence for Maxwell. Every victim suffered a lot, but a lot of them managed to succeed and thrive despite that. Carolyn was really beat up by life though.
Her cross examination was brutal. She was in tears by the end of it and left the room crying.
Carolyn was really hurting, and the defense went really hard to discredit her, because her testimony was so damning. She dropped out of school in 7th grade, she struggled with drug addiction, she struggled with schizophrenia.
It was devastating hearing that an active fear from her schizophrenic delusion was her children would be taken from her and trafficked themselves. I heard the fear in her voice when she talked about this fear on prompting from the defense. Carolyn was put through the wringer.
I was terrified they wouldn't when they asked for 5 testimonies, including from memory "expert" Elizabeth Loftus earlier in the day. The idea a jury wouldn't believe her, would dispose of her, a poor girl from West Palm Beach, once again, hurt. But the jury believed her.