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Harvey Weinstein indicted again, New York prosecutors say
NEW YORK — A grand jury has indicted Harvey Weinstein, prosecutors said in a New York court Thursday.
The details of the indictment were not unsealed, and prosecutors said they were not going to discuss specifics until Weinstein is able to be present in court.
Weinstein wasn’t in court Thursday because, earlier this week, the 72-year-old was rushed from Rikers Island to Bellevue Hospital for emergency heart surgery.
Prosecutors have said they hope to bring new sexual assault charges against Weinstein, but have not provided a timeline or any further details.
Weinstein is awaiting retrial on rape and sexual assault charges in New York City.
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Weinstein’s conviction was thrown out this spring after the state’s top court ruled the judge in the original trial unfairly allowed testimony about other allegations that were not a part of the case. The retrial is tentatively scheduled for November.
The disgraced Hollywood mogul was found guilty in 2020 of sexually assaulting an assistant in 2006 and raping an aspiring actor in 2013. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
After the New York case is complete, Weinstein is expected to return to California to serve his pending 16-year sentence for a separate rape conviction.
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Remains of decapitated “vampire child” found in Poland, archaeologists say
Workers removing tree branches near a historic cathedral in Chelm, Poland, unearthed something unexpected when they came upon two children’s skeletons in a shallow burial pit where no gravesites are marked, the government’s Culture Ministry said.
Neither skeleton was buried in a coffin and one of the children was buried with the characteristics of an anti-vampire burial, Dr. Stanisława Gołuba, the archaeologist leading the research, said in a Facebook post. The child’s head was separated from its body, the post said, and the skull was facing down into the ground arranged on a stone. This, plus the way the skeletons were oriented, appears to be consistent with ancient burial methods used to prevent a person thought to be a demonic entity from exiting the grave, Gołuba said.
The skeletons appeared to be from the Early Middle Ages.
The children’s skeletons were removed from their graves, documented and waiting for further analysis, the statement said.
It’s the most recent in a series of findings in Poland of remains buried in ways that suggest people at the time believed they were dealing with vampires or other supernatural entities.
In 2022, Polish researchers found the remains of a woman at a gravesite in the village of Pień with a sickle around her neck and a triangular padlock on her foot. According to ancient beliefs, the padlock was supposed to prevent a deceased person thought to be a vampire from returning from the dead. The sickle was thought to cut the neck if the corpse tried to rise from the grave.
Professor Dariusz Polinski of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun said this type of practice became common throughout Poland in the 17th century in response to a reported vampire epidemic. In addition to practices with a sickle, sometimes corpses were burned, smashed with stones or had their heads and legs cut off.
Six so-called “vampire skeletons” were also found at a cemetery in northwest Poland in 2013. Each was buried with either a sickle laid across their necks or stones placed beneath their jaws said Lesley Gregoricka of the University of South Alabama who led the research team.
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