NEW YORK — Cuba Gooding Jr. capped his criminal case with a slap on the wrist Thursday as multiple women he molested slammed his prison-free sentence — and said he got special treatment “because of who he is.”
The 54-year-old actor pleaded guilty to a single harassment charge at a hearing in State Supreme Court in Manhattan per the terms of a plea agreement. Judge Curtis Farber sentenced him to time served.
Gooding, who faced a year in prison, traded his previous guilty plea to forcible touching, a misdemeanor, for the harassment violation. That means he has no criminal record. He secured the deal by attending therapy and not getting arrested for six months.
