Vinsstein’s victim’s decision Miriam Haley to testify again

On Wednesday, 12 jurors in New York found a disgraceful movie tycoon Harvey Weinstein, guilty of sexual assault on Miriam Hale in 2006, after his previous sentence for sexual crimes in the country was canceled last year.

When Miriam Haley heard the news last year that the New York court had thrown a sentence for rape against Harvey Weinstein, the man she helped put behind bars four years earlier, she was shocked.

In 2020, Ja Haley said at the Manhattan courtroom every detail of the time Weinstein had sexually attacked her in her New York apartment in 2006.

This time, she planned to refuse prosecutors without wanting to transfer again all this. But just weeks before reviewing, she saw a link to a new podcast series aimed at Weinstein’s “Challenge”.

“I just thought I had to stand up for myself. I have to stand up the truth,” G -Ja Haley told the BBC.

She was one of the three women who testify against Weinstein during his six -week re -examination, accusing him of using his power as MiraMax Hollywood tycoon for sexual abuse of young women.

The jury found Weinsstein guilty of sexual assault with only Gi Haley. He was found that he was not guilty of a second woman and was still discussing the allegations of the third woman.

The verdict “gives me hope – I hope there is a new awareness of sexual abuse and that the myth of the perfect victim fades,” said G -Ja Haley outside the Manhattan Judicial Court on Wednesday.

The Court of Appeal overturned Weinsstein’s previous sex crimes sentence in New York last April. Judges have found that Weinsstein’s original process is not fair as it includes the testimony of women who have been charged beyond Official charges against him.

In September, the 73-year-old was accused of allegations of sexual assault for a new process.

He pleaded guilty and again categorically denied the allegations. His lawyers argued in the re -examination that his prosecutors were “friends with benefits” who had consensus sex with him in exchange for job opportunities.

These portraits were offensive, G -Ja Haley said, adding that Weinstein’s continuous refusal from the accusations pushed her to “continue to show up” in court.

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For this test, Da Haley spent four days at the stand – three more than he did the first time.

This process, she could look straight at her attacker, who was sitting in a wheelchair next to the defense table, unlike the first process when it was blocked by the Judge’s stand.

Entering, she was worried as there was in the previous process, how she would feel.

“Would I feel intimidated? Could I even regret it?” she said. “And then when I saw it, it was just like nothing.”

With Weinstein Watch Watch, Da Haley told the court about their first meeting in France in 2006. She said she had gone to his hotel, thinking she would discuss the job opportunities, but Weinstein asked her to massage him. She refused and left in tears.

They remained in contact and later Weinstein helped G -Ja Haley find a job as an assistant to the production of the project on the project for a television show.

Then, one night she accepted an invitation to his New York apartment, she said, as he had just asked her to attend a movie premiere in Los Angeles.

On this evening, on July 10, 2006, the movie “mogul” “threw” herself from the couch and kissed her. He pushed her into a bedroom, where he forcibly performs oral sex on her, testifies to Hale.

“I couldn’t get out of his grip,” she told the court. “I realized I’m raping. That’s it.”

Teaching these intimate details in a room full of strangers for the second time, it was “exhausting”, later Da Haley told the BBC.

“It’s just so invasive,” she said.

After direct interrogation, Mrs. Haley faced cross-interrogation by Weinstein’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjon, who is known for her combat style and defended other large Hollywood figures accused of sexual assault, including Bill Cosby and Rel.

When Bonjean was scolding her for who took her clothes off this July night, Da Haley answered through tears.

“He took off my clothes … I didn’t take off my clothes,” she said. “He was the one who raped me, not the other way around.”

“This is for the jurors to decide,” replied D -ja Bonjean.

The comment was disrespectful, said G -Ja Haley, who added that she could “feel my eyes spread and everything just because he was just so deeply offensive at that moment.”

“Regardless of the sentence, it still happened, from my point of view,” she said. “I’m still the one who has to live with him.”

G -Ja Haley was followed by actress Jessica Mann, who is involved in the first New York trial of Weinstein and former Kaja Sokola, who testified for the first time, accusing Weinsstein of sexual assault on her when she was 19 years old.

The jury found that Weinstein was not guilty of the attack on Da Sokol and still discussed whether he had raped the dn Man.

Weinstein still has to serve a separate 16-year sentence for sexual crimes in California, which means he was already expected to spend the rest of his life in prison, regardless of the result of the Retics.

He is generally accused of sexual disorders, attacks and rape of more than 100 women.

Like many casualties of sexual assault, Da Haley has not been publicly treated for the abuse of years.

She said she has accepted a strategy from her difficult childhood – one that involves abuse – where she suppresses traumatic memories and continues with life as usual.

Nevertheless, the attack had emotional consequences.

“I lost confidence in many things,” said G -Ja Haley. “Everything I saw on the surface was all those people who diverged over him. He was extremely humiliating and disturbing.”

In the end, Da Haley decided to go out after other women accused Weinstein of attack, helping to galvanize the #MeToo movement.

She was sent threats of death – but also dozens of reports from women who said they had motivated them to talk about their own abuse.

“He has this pulsating effect,” she said.

In the end, the sentence was evidence of a “lasting and true change” about awareness of sexual assault, said Ga -Ja Haley, called the sentence “release”.

Now a freelance manufacturer who spends time in Mexico, Da Haley believes that the end of the re -examination will close a painful head, one who thought it had already been sealed with Weinstein’s first conviction.

“Even if I show up this time I feel like a little victory,” she said. “I definitely didn’t do it for myself. I did it for the sake of the truth and for other women.”