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Harvey Weinstein faces new sexual assault charge in Los Angeles
- published: 11 Apr 2020
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Los Angeles prosecutors have filed a new sexual assault charge against Harvey Weinstein, the film producer serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York for rape. The LA district attorney’s office, which filed its original case in January, announced on Friday that Weinstein was facing a new felony charge of sexual battery by restraint, stemming from an incident at a Beverly Hills hotel on 11 May 2010. Weinstein “did willfully and unlawfully touch an intimate part of [the victim], while said person was unlawfully restrained by … Weinstein and an accomplice”, a complaint alleged. The woman was held against her will “for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, and sexual abuse”. Prosecutors also announced they were declining to move forward with prosecution on behalf of two other women because the “victims did not want to testify”. In the New York trial in February, the women who took the stand faced grueling attacks and cross-examinations by Weinstein’s attorneys, who belittled and blamed the women for their actions. In court filings, LA prosecutors said one victim, an actor, had testified in the New York trial about criminal sexual misconduct in 2013, but that on 31 March of this year, she said she did not want to take the stand again “due to the risk that it will re-traumatize her”. Another actor, who had alleged that Weinstein sexually assaulted her during a business meeting, has also said she will not testify, prosecutors said. A jury found Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape for an attack in a New York hotel and guilty of a criminal sex act for forcing ora...
Harvey Weinstein faces new sexual assault charge in Los Angeles
- published: 11 Apr 2020
- views: 11
Los Angeles prosecutors have filed a new sexual assault charge against Harvey Weinstein, the film producer serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York for rape. The LA district attorney’s office, which filed its original case in January, announced on Friday that Weinstein was facing a new felony charge of sexual battery by restraint, stemming from an incident at a Beverly Hills hotel on 11 May 2010. Weinstein “did willfully and unlawfully touch an intimate part of [the victim], while said person was unlawfully restrained by … Weinstein and an accomplice”, a complaint alleged. The woman was held against her will “for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, and sexual abuse”. Prosecutors also announced they were declining to move forward with prosecution on behalf of two other women because the “victims did not want to testify”. In the New York trial in February, the women who took the stand faced grueling attacks and cross-examinations by Weinstein’s attorneys, who belittled and blamed the women for their actions. In court filings, LA prosecutors said one victim, an actor, had testified in the New York trial about criminal sexual misconduct in 2013, but that on 31 March of this year, she said she did not want to take the stand again “due to the risk that it will re-traumatize her”. Another actor, who had alleged that Weinstein sexually assaulted her during a business meeting, has also said she will not testify, prosecutors said. A jury found Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape for an attack in a New York hotel and guilty of a criminal sex act for forcing ora...
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