TV producer Eric Weinberg charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual battery

[iemanja]

Eric Weinberg, a veteran television producer and writer who worked on shows including Scrubs and Californication, has been arrested and charged with 18 counts including rape, sexual battery and false imprisonment by violence. . .

“The defendant relied on his Hollywood credentials to lure young women for photo shoots where he allegedly sexually assaulted them,” LA district attorney George Gascón said at a press conference on Wednesday. “Power and influence can corrupt some to hurt others that often leads to a lifetime of trauma for those who are victimised.”

The 18 charges against Weinberg relate to a series of sexual assaults that police allege occurred between 2014 and 2019. On Wednesday, prosecutors said “dozens” of women had come forward since news of Weinberg’s arrest in July first broke, when he was charged with more counts of sexual assault, dating back to 2012.

In the indictment, police allege Weinberg singled out women in their 20s and 30s “in grocery stores, coffee shops and other public places” and would attempt to convince them to participate in a photo shoot. If the women agreed, police said he then allegedly assaulted them during photo shoots organised in his home.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/tv-producer-eric-weinberg-charged-with-multiple-counts-of-rape-and-sexual-battery/ar-AA12Em05?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=aa17c018f0784e9f9d3b9ff93b4ca98e

[Botany]

1. Dirt Bag

LAPD Detective Ryan Lamar said investigators were looking into information received from a tip line regarding possible other assaults by Weinberg.

Weinberg was previously investigated several times by police, but the DA's office didn't file charges for lack of evidence, Gascón said.

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In 2020, documents filed in Weinberg's divorce and child custody proceedings included allegations by three women that he sexually assaulted them during photo shoots, the Los Angeles Times reported.

One woman alleged that she met Weinberg at a North Hollywood coffee shop in 2014 when she was 22 and he convinced her to come to a photo shoot at his home where she stripped to her underwear. The woman alleged that while taking photos, Weinberg grabbed her, forced to perform oral sex, choked her and then raped her, according to documents cited by the Times.



https://www.npr.org/2022/10/06/1127167367/scrubs-eric-weinberg-sexual-assaults

[CatWoman]

8. fucking animal

[chowder66]

2. Glad they got the POS.

[iemanja]

3. I only hope the prosecution sticks

because far too many rapists get away with it, even Bill Cosby.

[chowder66]

7. Agree.

[Torchlight]

4. My guess is that money and position did not directly engender his action

but instead, his desire to abuse had existed already, and the money and position gave him the tools and targets to accomplish it with much less risk.

There's the popular position that power and money are corrupting influences, but I tend to believe that the corruption is, to one degree or another, already there, and the money and excess simply allows us to make the choice to rationalize the abuse we suffer onto others as 'meh, no big deal.'

[iemanja]

6. It made it easier for him to have access to victims

but yes, I agree with you that it was in his nature to begin with.

[RussBLib]

5. Men have been getting away with crap like this forever

It's about time SOME of them pay for it.