A woman who was 16 years old when she says Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her sued him in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday under New York’s Child Victims Act, refusing to accept the proposed civil settlement offered to his accusers.

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The Child Victims Act opened a one-year window, starting in August, for victims of child sex abuse to pursue civil claims against their alleged abusers or the institutions that allegedly harbored them.

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