The
Crown Prosecution Service
(CPS ) of the United Kingdom announced on Thursday its decision to prosecute American actor Kevin Spacey, 62, for four crimes of sexual abuse.
The alleged victims would be three men.
“Likewise, he has also been accused of forcing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without his consent.
All charges are the result of the final review of evidence collected by the Metropolitan Police during their investigation," said Rosemary Ainslie, Chief of Scotland Yard's Special Crimes Division.
The alleged abuses would have occurred between 2005 and 2013. Two of them in London and one in the town of Gloucestershire.
The CPS statement avoids giving more details about Spacey, and recalls that his role is not "to decide whether someone is guilty or innocent of a crime, but to provide objective, fair and independent arguments about whether or not it is appropriate to bring an indictment for let a criminal court consider it.”
The Old Vic
theater
in London, of which Spacey was artistic director from 2004 to 2015, apologized to citizens after revealing that it had received
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