Weinstein, who was one of the priests of the North American audiovisual industry, claimed his innocence before Judge Lisa B. Lench, before receiving the sentence, reported the Variety portal.
“Please don’t sentence me to life in prison. I do not deserve it. There are so many things wrong with this case. There is no evidence. This is a setup; I beg mercy on him “, were his words
For her part, the victim, identified during the trial as Jane Doe 1, stated: “I was excited about my future. Everything changed after the defendant brutally attacked me. There is no prison sentence long enough to undo the damage.”
Weinstein initially faced eleven charges in Los Angeles, but four of them, all related to the same victim, were dismissed during the course of the trial.
The former producer was publicly accused by more than a hundred women who publicly presented their accusations for crimes of sexual assault, abuse and harassmenta pattern that has been repeated for decades until the rise of the movement #MeToo in 2017.
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