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LA Prosecutors Won’t Pursue Charges Against Les Moonves for Alleged 1980s Sexual Abuse

A woman came forward with allegations this year, but the statute of limitations had already expired.

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office said it will not be charging CBS CEO Les Moonves for alleged incidents of sexual abuse in the late 1980s, NBC News reports. An acquaintance of Moonves approached the police in February to report one incident in 1986 and two in 1988, but prosecutors declined to pursue charges as the statute of limitations had already expired. Officials were reportedly considering “three possible criminal charges” including battery, indecent exposure, and “forced oral copulation.” Ronan Farrow, author of a bombshell New Yorker report accusing the network executive of decades of sexual misconduct, said the woman’s allegations were not included in his story. Farrow’s piece included allegations from six other women, with accusations ranging from inappropriate touching to sexual assault. CBS announced that it would be conducting an independent investigation into the matter in the aftermath of the report. This comes as the Los Angeles County DA’s Entertainment Sex Crimes Task Force is reportedly working on about a dozen cases “involving Hollywood figures accused of criminal misconduct ranging from inappropriate touching to rape.”