NEW YORK – Cuba actor Gooding Jr. resolved Thursday without jail or criminal repercussions the case he was accused of touching women after pleading guilty last April in a deal with prosecutors, according to reports. local media.
Gooding Jr., 54, an Oscar winner, was indicted in New York in 2019 for forcibly touching and kissing three women in various nightclubs around the city in a case that began on a sexual assault charge but which ended Gravity has reduced.
In April, following a plea deal with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, he pleaded guilty to trying to avoid going to trial and on condition that he undergo six months of alcohol abuse treatment and stay out of trouble. .
According to the New York Post, the actor’s criminal record was deleted today because he met those conditions and, furthermore, his guilty plea for inappropriate touch was changed to refer to a less serious second-degree harassment charge. .
In this three-year criminal case, Gooding Jr. faced a maximum of one year in prison linked to sexual abuse charges and a trial in which two women who had been touched would have to testify as witnesses on your part.
The plaintiff, who has other similar civil lawsuits pending in a New York federal court and the state Supreme Court, has been charged with inappropriate sexual behavior by scores of women since the Me Too movement was born in 2019.
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