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Actor Kevin Spacey faces a felony charge for allegedly sexually assaulting the teenage son of former Boston WCVB-TV news anchor Heather Unruh at a Nantucket bar in July 2016, authorities said Monday.

Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said that Spacey was due to be arraigned on a charge of indecent assault and battery at Nantucket District Court on Jan. 7.

O’Keefe said that a public show-cause hearing was held in the case on Dec. 20. There, Clerk Magistrate Ryan Kearney issued a criminal complaint for the charge “against Kevin S. Fowler, also known as Kevin Spacey,” O’Keefe said by phone Monday reading from a prepared statement.

He declined to comment further.

Unruh said by phone Monday: “I’m pleased that the case is moving forward in the judicial system.”

In Nov. 2017, during an emotional news conference, Unruh publicly accused Spacey of sexually assaulting her son.

Unruh said that in July 2016 her then 18-year-old son was at The Club Car, where the actor was among the late-night crowd in the dimly lit restaurant. Her son was mesmerized by Spacey and told him he was old enough to drink, Unruh said previously.

Unruh said Spacey purchased alcohol for her son until he was drunk and then stuck his hand inside the man’s pants and grabbed his genitals. During the encounter, Unruh said, her son tried to shift his body away from Spacey but was “only momentarily successful.” The actor urged her son to accompany him to an after-hours party to drink more, she said.

Unruh said her son fled the restaurant when Spacey excused himself to use the bathroom and a woman urged the youth to run. He sprinted to his grandmother’s house and told his sister what happened, Unruh said. The siblings then called Unruh, who traveled to Nantucket in the morning, she said.

“The victim, my son, was a star-struck, straight, 18-year-old young man who had no idea that the famous actor was an alleged sexual predator or that he was about to become his next victim,” Unruh said at the Nov. 2017 press conference accompanied by attorney Mitchell Garabedian and her daughter Kyla. “This was a criminal act.”

Unruh said her son reported the incident to Nantucket police in the fall of 2017 and provided evidence to investigators.

Her son asked Unruh to speak publicly about the encounter, she said. He didn’t go to authorities sooner, she said, because of embarrassment and fear. Soon after the alleged attack, however, Unruh said she discussed it with Nantucket’s sheriff, who urged him to file a complaint.

During her news conference, Unruh also alleged Spacey had targeted another man during a visit to the island.

Nantucket police referred comment to O’Keefe’s office Monday.

Garabedian, who has represented hundreds of survivors of clergy sexual abuse, did not immediately return a message left for him Monday.

Spacey, 59, has faced other sexual assault accusations, which began surfacing in the fall of 2017 and prompted his removal from Netflix’s “House of Cards,” the popular political drama he starred in. His role in a Ridley Scott film was also cut.

His attorney could not immediately be reached Monday.

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