00:00Danny Masterson has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for the rapes of two women.
00:06The That 70s Show star was sentenced on Thursday after a trial that drew widespread attention
00:10due to the allegations that the Church of Scientology
00:13dissuaded his accusers from reporting the sexual assaults.
00:16Masterson, who was charged with three counts of rape in 2020, was also denied a new trial.
00:21This ends one of the most high-profile cases of the MeToo movement
00:24and marks one of the few instances a major figure in Hollywood will serve time behind
00:29bars for sex crimes that occurred a significant period of time before a criminal case was filed.
00:34Reinhold Muller, who led the prosecution, said that the accusers were committed to justice.
00:39Today we got it.
00:40The prosecution pushed to have the Church of Scientology play a prominent role in the trial
00:44as Masterson's accusers claimed that the organization discouraged them from reporting
00:48that they were sexually assaulted.
00:50The actor and Church of Scientology also face a civil case from the women.
00:54Actress Leah Remini, who has publicly spoken out about Scientology
00:58and was in the courtroom for Masterson's verdict, said in a statement about the sentence,
01:02while Danny was the only one sentenced, his conviction and sentence are indictments
01:06against Scientology, its operatives and its criminal leader, David Miskovich.
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