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Anonymous ID: 512693 April 11, 2021, 7:39 p.m. No.13406669   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6810 >>6825 >>7127 >>7247 >>7383

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Harvey Weinsten Reportedly Secretly Indicted on Rape Charges by LA Grand Jury

 

Ex-Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinsten received multiple charges of sexual abuse from many women, including high-profile movie stars, and was sentenced to 23 years in prison. He nonetheless continues to claim innocence and has appealed the decision.

 

Harvey Weinstein several weeks ago was secretly indicted on rape charges by a grand jury in Los Angeles, Fox News reported Sunday.

 

The decision by LA District Attorney George Gascón envisages the extradition of Weinstein from New York to California, and could reportedly speed up the new trial.

 

"This process will eliminate the need for a preliminary hearing which is kind of a minitrial like we saw in the OJ case: there was the trial before the trial," criminal defense attorney Troy Slaten said, cited by Fox News. According to Slaten, under a law that allows borrowed custody, California can get custody of a New York inmate, if the trial starts within 120 days.

The sealed indictment is to reportedly be revealed on Monday at Weinstein's extradition hearing in New York.

 

In the Golden State, the former movie producer faces 11 counts, including rape. In the event of another conviction, he could face an additional 140 years behind bars. Weinstein is charged with raping several women in Beverly Hills hotels, including model Lauren Young, who was a witness in the New York trial a year ago.

 

The former movie mogul will have to return to New York to serve his 23-year sentence, which he is currently appealing, claiming that he did not receive a fair trial. His legal team is expected to ask for a delay of the extradition, citing Weinstein's "poor" health and his risk of being exposed to the coronavirus disease.

 

Gloria Allred, a defense attorney representing Young and another unnamed woman in the LA case, voiced hopes for the transfer to be completed.

 

"It appears to me that Mr. Weinstein does not wish to be removed to Los Angeles to face charges, but justice delayed is justice denied", she said.

 

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Anonymous ID: 512693 April 11, 2021, 7:43 p.m. No.13406686   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6701 >>6709 >>6810 >>7127 >>7247 >>7383

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Scottish Government-Funded Groups Back Lobby for Law to Allow Sex with Adolescents

 

The recently-revived 'Feminist Declaration' from Beijing in 1995 urges governments to repeal the laws that currently make it illegal for adolescents — an age range including pre-teenage children — and those with learning disabilities to consent to sex.

 

The Scottish National Party's (SNP) devolved government at Holyrood funds, among many other entities, groups affiliated to an international lobby to lower the age of consent to pre-teen years.

 

Gay rights NGOs Stonewall Scotland and LGBT Youth Scotland are both listed as member organisations of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA World).

 

Delegates to a conference called by former SNP leader Alex Salmond's new Alba Party on Saturday heard that ILGA last year joined over 200 groups affiliated with the Women’s Rights Caucus in reviving an obscure 'Feminist Declaration' from the Fourth World Conference for Women in Beijing in 1995.

 

The declaration calls on governments to ”Eliminate all laws and policies that punish or criminalize same-sex intimacy, gender affirmation, abortion, HIV transmission non-disclosure and exposure, or that limit the exercise of bodily autonomy." That includes "laws limiting legal capacity of adolescents, people with disabilities or other groups to provide consent to sex”.

 

It also demands an end to "the criminalization and stigmatization of adolescents’ sexuality, and ensure and promote a positive approach to young people's and adolescents’ sexuality that enables, recognizes, and respects their agency to make informed and independent decisions on matters concerning their bodily autonomy, pleasure and fundamental freedoms."

 

The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines adolescents as children as young as 10, well below the age of consent of 16 in the UK. Under the 2005 Mental Capacity Act, adults with learning disabilities may also be deemed unable to consent to sex.

 

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