Following the completion of a sweetheart no-jail plea deal, Cuba Gooding Jr. will not serve any time in prison for his Manhattan sex abuse case and will even have his criminal record cleared.
According to New York Post, the 54-year-old Oscar-winning actor’s six charges of forcible touching were reduced to two counts of harassment on Thursday. As a result of the plea agreement, these charges will no longer appear on his record.
In 2018, Cuba Gooding Jr. was charged with forcing a lady to kiss him in a nightclub, and in 2019, he was accused of groping two more women in popular NYC locations. In the same year, he entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of aggressively groping a lady in a New York nightclub.
After completing six months of alcohol abuse rehabilitation and behavior modification therapy, both of which were requirements of his April plea agreement with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, his record was cleaned.
In court on Thursday, prosecutor Coleen Balbert said she’s received “positive reports” from the actor’s therapist, while noting he planning to continue the treatment beyond the court-ordered six months required of him.
The victims, who were not publicly named, gave statements in Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday and described the trauma those incidents have caused them., with one calling the plea deal a “misstep.”