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“When my nephew came to this country to pursue his studies and when he came to stay with me for Thanksgiving in Burlington, Vermont, it never occurred to me that he may be victim to this type of violence,” Awartani’s uncle Rich Price said in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday.

At a hearing on Tuesday, Mr. Weinstein’s lawyers pointed to a photo that one accuser posted online of herself with Al Pacino and the caption “beautiful evening” hours after the incident in question, and argued that couldn’t possibly be victim behavior.

“Because I think with baseball, you just don’t know who is going to be the better team that day. But I think the variable of a letdown emotionally, the moment getting too big for a player, I do believe, and I have all the confidence we wouldn’t be victim of that. Knowing I don’t have to worry about that, it just gives me added confidence in our guys.”

"One of the questions that people ask is, well, why didn't you report it at the time? And I say that is the wrong question. The question is, why did it take so long for women to be heard, for women to feel comfortable to come forward and tell their stories, for women to be believed and not to be victim blamed?"

Dani Lever, the governor’s former press secretary, said that the letter would be “victim shaming.”