Posted by on December 19, 2019 4:42 pm
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A former model filed a civil lawsuit on Thursday against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, accusing him of sexually assaulting her in his New York City apartment when she was 16.

Kaja Sokola, now 33, is suing Weinstein under the Child Victims Act, which has given adult survivors of child sexual abuse a one-year period to seek justice in New York, even if the statute of limitations has long expired.

“I know that this lawsuit cannot erase the pain that I have been living with for 17 years,” she wrote in a statement, adding, “But I do hope to achieve at least some measure of justice that has still been denied to Harvey Weinstein’s many victims.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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