New York Court Found Harvey Weinstein Guilty of Rape
New York jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty of sexual abuse.
The fallen titan of Hollywood whose sexual abuse of aspiring young female actors sparked the #MeToo movement, has finally been brought to justice.
The New York supreme court took five days to reach verdict. The jury of seven men and five women found Weinstein guilty of charges.
They found the defendant guilty of a criminal sex act in the first degree for forcing oral sex on the former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006.The count carries a minimum prison sentence of five years and a maximum of up to 25 years.
Also, Weinstein found guilty of rape in the third degree. This relates to him raping a woman in a New York hotel in 2013.
Weinstein was acquitted of three further charges, including the two most serious counts of predatory sexual assault which carried a possible life sentence and an alternative count of rape in the first degree.