Marilyn Manson: US judge reopens sexual assault case against musician

"The lawsuit, filed in May 2021 by a former assistant to the musician, had been dismissed in December because it exceeded the statute of limitations, a maximum time period for initiating legal proceedings after the related events took place. But plaintiff Ashley Walters asked the court to reconsider her case in January, when a new law mandated a two-year window for the consideration of sexual assault cases that had already expired under the statute."

"While Ms Walters made several now-irrelevant claims about so-called workplace harassment, she has no pending claims for sexual assault as defined in the penal code, as would be required under the new law, nor is she permitted under the ruling to add new claims, King said in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse on Tuesday. The undeniable fact is that Mr Warner never committed any sexual assault, he added."

"I looked at this closely, Judge Steve Cochran said at a hearing on Monday. I do think the statute revives the claim. Walters alleges the rocker sexually assaulted her when she worked for his Manson Records between 2010 and 2011. She also claims that Manson, whose real name is Brian Hugh Warner, boasted about raping women and even showed her a video in which he was abusing a minor girl."

A Los Angeles judge reinstated a sexual-assault lawsuit against Marilyn Manson after a new California law created a two-year window to revive claims that had expired under the statute of limitations. Plaintiff Ashley Walters filed the suit in May 2021 and it was dismissed in December for being time-barred. Judge Steve Cochran concluded the new statute revives Walters’s claim. Walters alleges Manson sexually assaulted her while she worked at Manson Records in 2010–2011 and that he boasted about raping women and showed her a video of him abusing a minor. Manson’s attorney denies the allegations and contends the suit lacks qualifying penal-code claims; other women have made similar accusations, and some related suits have settled or proceeded in litigation.

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