Harvey Weinstein declared guilty of sexual assault, during his appeal trial – Liberation

At the end of Almost five days of jurors’ deliberationsthe former king of Hollywood Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of a sexual assault at his trial in New York this Wednesday, June 11, against the production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006. On the other hand, the jury did not condemn him for the sexual assault the same year of the Polish model Kaja Sokola, who was 19 years old at the time of the facts. The deliberations will continue for the accusation of rape against the aspiring actress Jessica Mann.

The 12 jurors were to decide unanimously if the former powerful producer, accused since 2017 by dozens of women of being a sexual predator, has been guilty of sexual assault on the former production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006 and on the former Mannequin Kaja Sokola the same year, forcing them to undergo Cunnilingus, and rape in 2013 Mann.

A shaded face of the #MeToo movement, Harvey Weinstein, 73, had been sentenced in 2020 to twenty-three years in prison for the alleged crimes concerning Miriam Haley and Jessica Mann, but the New York Court of Appeal had canceled the verdict last year for procedural issues. A spectacular reversal experienced as a slap by organizations of fighting sexual violence and which forced to make the trial.