Los Angeles, Jan. 6 (EFE News) .- The Los Angeles County Prosecutor's Office (US) on Monday accused film producer Harvey Weinstein for allegedly raping one woman and sexually assaulting another.
Angelian prosecutor Jackie Lacey announced these new accusations against Weinstein, who has been pointed out by dozens of women for having committed alleged sexual assaults of all kinds.
The accusations of the Los Angeles Prosecutor's Office were announced on the same day that Weinstein appeared in the New York Supreme Court to begin the trial in which he will face five charges for those crimes.
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"We believe the evidence will show that the defendant used his power and influence to gain access to his victims and then commit violent crimes against them," Lacey told a news conference.
"I want to praise the victims who have stepped forward and bravely told what happened to them. It is my hope that all victims of sexual violence will find strength and healing as they move forward," he added.
According to the Prosecutor's Office, on February 18, 2013, Weinstein would have raped a woman in a Los Angeles hotel after forcing her into her own room.
The next night, always according to the indictment, the producer sexually assaulted another woman in a hotel room in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles.
The Prosecutor's Office has recommended a bond of 5 million dollars and explained that, if convicted of all charges, the producer could face up to 28 years in a state jail.
The precise accusations that Weinstein will face in Los Angeles are for rape, forced oral copulation and sexual penetration with force, in the case of the first woman, and sexual assault with retention with respect to the second.
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These two women told at least one person in 2013 what had happened to the producer.
In 2017 it was when they accused Weinstein.
The prosecutor explained that a total of eight women went to the angel authorities with accusations against Weinstein for alleged sexual crimes in Los Angeles County.
Two of them are those that are part of this case, three were dismissed for having prescribed the facts and the other three remaining cases are still being investigated.
Lacey stressed that on many occasions it is complicated that accusations of sexual assault can be sustained in court, but stressed that this does not mean that the victims' story is not true.
In addition, he stressed that these charges against the producer are the result of the special team he created in November 2017 to evaluate and investigate the numerous cases of abuse and sexual harassment in Hollywood that were known in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
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Lacey hopes that Weinstein, when the process pending in New York is over, can appear in a Los Angeles court.
The almighty film producer is accused by the New York Prosecutor's Office of five sex crimes focused on alleged attacks on two women: one in which he would have raped an unidentified woman in a New York hotel in 2013 and another in which he allegedly forced production assistant Mimi Haleyi to have oral sex in her apartment in 2006.