Weinstein victim Miriam Haley’s decision to testify again

Wednesday, 12 New York jurors found the denied film Mogul Harvey Weinstein was guilty of sexually assaulted Miriam Halei 2006. years, after his previous judgment of sexual crimes in the state overturned last year.

When Miriam Halei heard that the New York Court threw a conviction for rape against Harvey Weinstein, a man who helped behind the bars four years ago, was shocked.

In 2020. years, Mrs. Haley told Manhattan courtrooms of every detail of Winstein’s time, which sexually attacked her in her apartment in New York in 2006. years. Years.

This time she planned to reject prosecutors, and they don’t want everything to be set through her again. But just a few weeks before the trial, she saw a connection to a new podcast series intended for “release” of Weinstein.

“I just thought, I have to get up for myself. I have to get up for the truth,” Ms. Haley said.

Was one of the three women to testify against Vinstein during his six-week re-trial, accusing him use his power as a miramax Hollywood tycoon for sexual abuse of young women.

Finally, the jury found that he saw the guilty guy only MS Haley only. They released him a sexual assault on another woman, and being declared a third rape number.

The verdict “gives me hope – I hope there is a new awareness in sexual violence and that the myth of the perfect victim is fading,” Mrs. Halei said Mrs. Halei on Wednesday.

The Court of Appeals rolled Vinstein’s prior certificate for sexual crimes in New York last April. Judges found Weinstein’s original trial was not fair because it included the testimony of women who gave allegations outside Official charges against him.

In September, a 73-year-old accused based on sexual attacks on a new trial.

He pleaded not guilty and again fiercely denied the allegations. His lawyers claimed to retrial that his accusations were “friends with advantages” who had consensual sex in exchange for work opportunities with him.

These portrayals were offensive, Mrs. Haley, adding that Vinstein’s constant denial of allegations was pushing that he “continued to appear” in court.

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For this trial, Mrs. Haley spent four days at the stand – three more than she did for the first time.

This trial could look straight to the attacker, who sat in a wheelchair next to the defense table, unlike the first trial, when he blocked the Booth judge.

Inputs, she was worried, as she had at the previous trial, about how she felt.

“Should I feel intimidated? Should I even regret it?” She said. “And then when I saw him, it was just like nothing.”

With Veinstein, looking, Mrs. Haley was in 2006. told the Court of his first meeting in France. She said she went to his hotel thinks she would talk about working opportunities, but Veinstein asked him to ask him to ask him that Veinstein asked him to ask him to ask him. She refused and left in tears.

They stayed in touch, and Veinstein later helped Mrs. Haley find work as a production assistant for the Television Show project project.

Then one night accepted the invitation to her apartment in New York, because she just asked her to attend the premiere of the film in Los Angeles.

That evening from 10. July 2006. years, Mogul “died” on her whole couch and kissed her. She pushed her to the bedroom, where she forced oral sex on her, Mrs. Haley testified.

“I couldn’t get away from my climb,” said that court. “I realized, I raped, this is it.”

Recourse those intimate details in the room full of foreigners for the second time was “exhausting,” Ms. Haley later told the BBC.

“It’s just so invasive,” she said.

After direct examination, Mrs. Halei faced a cross-examination from Veinstein Jennifer Bonnaean, who was known for his fight and defended other major Hollywood personality accused of sexual assault, including Bill Cosby and R Kelly.

When Mrs. Bonjean called her about who the clothes of the clothes on the evening, Mrs. Haley replied through tears.

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

“It’s that the jury decides,” Ms Bonjean replied.

The comment was disregen of, said Mrs. Haley, who added that she could “feel my eyes to throw and everything, just because it was so deeply offensive at that moment.”

“Regardless of the verdict, she still happened from my perspective,” she said. “I’m still the one who has to live with it.”

MS Haley followed the Starcom Jessica Mann, which was involved in Veinstein’s trial in New York and former Model Kaja Sokola, who first testified to her that she testified to her in sexual attacking her 19 years.

The jury found a Weinstein who was not guilty of attacking Mrs. Falcon, and the judge was declared the number of rape brought by Mrs. Mann, after one jurist refused to continue discussions.

Weinstein still needs to serve a separate 16-year sentence for sexual crimes in California, which means that he has already expected the rest of his life in prison regardless of the outcome of the trial.

The total is charged with sexual behavior, attack and rape by more than 100 women.

Like many victims of sexual assault, Mrs. Halei did not spite public years on abuse for years.

She said she has adopted a strategy from her severe childhood – the one involved in abuse – where traumatic memories have pushed and continued life as usual.

However, the attack had emotional consequences.

“I lost my self confidence in many things,” said Mrs. Halei. “All I could see on the surface are all these people cheering it. It was extremely humiliating and embarrassing.”

Mrs. Haley eventually decided to show up after the other women accused Veinstein from the attack, helping to gain the movement of #temo.

Sent threats to death – but do dozens of messages from women who said they were motivated to talk about their abuse.

“It has this refueling effect,” she said.

Finally, the verdict was evidence of “lasting and true changes” about the consciousness of the sexual assault, Ms. Halei, calling the condemnation “Edition”.

It is now a free producer that spends time in Mexico, Mrs. Haley believes that the end of the re-trial will close the chapter, the one she thought was already sealed with the first Vinstein’s first verdict.

“Even I showed up this time it feels like a little victory,” she said. “I’ve definitely not really worked for myself. I worked it for the truth, and for the other women.”