Cuba Gooding Jr. told the judge he kissed a waitress on the mouth without her consent. Photo of Alec Tabak/The Daily News via AP, Pool.
The actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty today, Wednesday, to touched by force to a woman at a nightclub in New York in 2018.
The guilty plea came after almost three years who is the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” actor was arrested in the casewho suffered some delay as his attorneys sought to reduce or dismiss the charges.
Gooding, 54, who was accused of molesting three women at various nightclubs in Manhattan in 2018 and 2019, he pleaded guilty to just one of the allegations.
The actor said that to the judge “kissed the waitress on the lips”‘without his permission at the LAVO club in New York.
Cuba Gooding Jr. was arrested in 2019 when a woman accused him of touching her breasts. Photo (Alec Tabak/The Daily News via AP, Pool, File.
Why isn’t he incarcerated?
That was stated in Gooding’s plea agreement he will not be incarcerated, but will have to undergo therapy for six months to withdraw your misdemeanor guilty plea and plead guilty to misdemeanor stalking.
Gooding was arrested in June 2019 after a 29-year-old woman told police the actor touched her breasts without her permission. at the Magic Hour Rooftop bar near Times Square.
A few months later, Gooding was charged with two more cases because more women decided to report him for abuse. New cases have been filed against him touched the waitress’s butt and make a sexual commenthe in TAO Downtown and play inappropriate and forced woman in LAVO nightclubsame in 2018.
Dati, Gooding He was not guilty of six misdemeanor charges and denied all allegations of misconduct. His lawyers argued that prosecutors, fueled by the enthusiasm of the #MeToo movement, were trying to turn “common acts” or mixing into crimes.
The judge ruled that if Gooding’s case went to trial, prosecutors would have to call two more women to testify about their abuse allegations against Gooding. Those women, whose complaints did not lead to criminal charges, were among 19 other plaintiffs whom prosecutors sought to call as witnesses.
Cuba Gooding was also accused of raping a woman in New York in 2013. Photo Johannes EISELE / AFP.
Gooding was also accused of raping a woman in New York in 2013.. A judge issued a default judgment in July because the actor failed to respond to the lawsuit. Gooding has a lawyer fighting those allegations. Source: With information from the AP.
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