🚨BREAKING: KEVIN SPACEY ACQUITTED OF ALL SEX CHARGES IN ENGLAND
Today, on his birthday, an English Jury found Kevin Spacey NOT GUILTY on ALL NINE sex offense charges
Here is a summary of the case:
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey had 12 charges at the start of trial but 3 were dropped in the course of the trial at London's Southwark Crown Court
- The Hollywood star, who is 64, denied the charges - which included seven counts of sexual assault - against four men
- He cried as the verdicts were read out, and hugged his manager and legal team afterwards
- The alleged victims are now in their 30s and 40s, with the incidents said to have happened between 2001 and 2013
- Prosecutors told the jury the star had left the four complainants feeling “small, diminished and worthless”
- Spacey denied using his power as an A-lister to get people into bed, saying he tried to help others - and described the allegations as a "stab in the back"
- All four of Spacey's accusers are entitled to lifelong anonymity under English law
Spacey's Defense made the following key arguments:
1) Spacey had been “tried by social media”
2) Three of the four accusers had lied when they made allegations against Spacey, and had done so “for reasons which, ultimately, will only ever be known to themselves". He suggested that a fourth complainant was intoxicated
3) Gibbs told jurors: "It's not a crime to like sex, even if you're famous and it's not a crime to have sex, even if you're famous, and it's not a crime to have casual sex. And it's not a crime to have sex with someone of the same sex because it's 2023 not 1823"
MY THOUGHTS:
We have an important principle in a free and democratic society that goes: "INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!"
There’s nothing worse than ‘trial by social media’, where facts don’t matter and dramatized narratives get engagement.
Unfortunately for Spacey, he has lost so much already, and his reputation has been BADLY DAMAGED.
He was popular A-lister who, at the time when the allegations were made, stared on the Netflix show 'House of Cards'.
He was dropped because of these now-false allegations.
You might not trust the legal system, but it’s there for a reason, it takes months to conclude a trial in order to go through all the evidence, unlike tweets and social media posts that are written within hours.
While sexual abuse is a serious problem, and anyone who’s been abused deserves justice, I am getting increasingly concerned of social media increasingly acting as the ‘people’s court’.
This has to stop!
WHAT CAN BE DONE TO COMBAT THE CURRENT ‘CANCEL CULTURE’ PROLIFERATING SOCIAL MEDIA?
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