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WEBVTT HE'S IN BOSTON WITH THE STORY,DAVID?>> GOOD EVENING.AT A HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON,HEATHER UNRUH SAID SHE ISSPEAKING OUT WITH THE FULLSUPPORT OF HER SON, BUT THAT FORNOW HE DOES NOT WANT HIS NAME ORFACE MADE PUBLIC.BACK BEFORE CAMERAS, HEATHERUNRUH SAID SHE'S NOW SPEAKINGNOT AS A JOURNALIST, BUT AS AMOTHER.SHE SAYS HER SON MET KEVINSPACEY TWO SUMMERS AGO INSIDETHIS RESTAURANT ON NANTUCKETLATE AT NIGHT.THE VICTIM, MY SON, WAS ASTARSTRUCK, STRAIGHT 18-YEAR-OLDYOUNG MAN.>> UNRUH SAYS SPACEY BOUGHT HERSON DRINKS, GOT HIM DRUNK ANDTHEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HIM.>> HE STUCK HIS HAND INSIDE MYSONS PANTS AND GRABBED HISGENITALS.THIS WAS COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED.>> SHE SAYS SPACEY WENT TO THEBATHROOM, HE SON LEFT AND CALLEDHER.HE DID NOT REPORT THE ALLEGEDINCIDENT TO POLICE UNTIL LASTWEEK WHEN HE HANDED OVERUNSPECIFIED EVIDENCE.HIS LAWYER SAID POLICE AREINVESTIGATING AND A LAWSUIT ISPOSSIBLE.>> THE CIVIL CLAIM AGAINST MR.SPAC, KEVIN SPACEY, HAPPENEDIN MASSACHUSETTS AND IS WELLWITHIN THE CIVIL STATUTE OFLIMITATIONS.>> THIS CHAMBER DEBATES ME?>> KNOWN FOR HIS ROLE ONNETFLIX'S HOUSE CARDS, SPACEY ISFACING A DOZEN OTHER SIMILARACCUSATIONS, INCLUDING BY ACTORANTHONY RAPP AND RICHARDDREYFUSS' SON.IN A TWEET LAST MONTH, UNRUHSAID SHE WAS EMBOLDENED BY THEHARVEY WEINSTEIN SCANDAL TOSPEAK OUT AGAINST SPACEY.>> OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE RISKS.I THINK IN OUR FAMILY IT IS SOIMPORTANT TO BE TRUTHFUL AND TOBE HEARD.>> HEATHER UNRUH SAYS A WOMAN INTHE BAR THAT NIGHT NOTICED HSON WAS SHAKEN AND MAY HAVE SEENEVEN MORE.

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Actor Kevin Spacey sexually abused the teenage son of a local journalist on Nantucket Island in 2016, his accusers said Wednesday. “I’m here not as a journalist today, but as a mom,” former WCVB news anchor Heather Unruh said tearfully. “In July 2016, actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted my son.”Unruh, who left the anchor desk over a year ago, participated in the announcement of the allegations against Spacey alongside attorney Mitchell Garabedian.“This young man claims to have been sexually assaulted on Nantucket Island when he was 18 years old," said Garabedian, who is known for representing victims of the Catholic church sex abuse scandal.Unruh said that her son filed a police report last week and gave evidence to the police department. She said that the assault occurred late at night in The Club Car restaurant.She described her son as "starstruck" and said that her son told the actor that he was of legal drinking age when they met in the restaurant. “Whether he was over 21 or not, Kevin Spacey had no right to sexually assault him. There was no consent. Kevin Spacey bought him drink, after drink, after drink, and when my son was drunk, Spacey made his move and sexually assaulted him," she said. Garabedian and Unruh praised the actions of an unknown woman, who encouraged Unruh's son to leave the restaurant when the actor went to use the bathroom. They asked that woman to come forward. "I don't know how much she saw. I don't know if she saw Kevin Spacey put his hand in my son's pants. That much I don't know," Unruh said. "What I do know is that she saw my son was very shaken.""We would like to thank the mystery woman who asked Heather's son to run," Garabedian said. Spacey also faces allegations for sexual harassment and assault from employees on his Netflix show, “House of Cards,” and by "Star Trek: Discovery" actor Anthony Rapp.Rapp said that a drunk Spacey had thrown him on a bed and climbed on top him in 1986, when Rapp was only 14.Spacey released an apology in response to Rapp's account. "I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago," Spacey said. "But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years.""As those closest to me know, in my life I have had relationships with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man," he also said in his statement."Shame on you for what you did to my son. And shame on you for using your apology to Anthony Rapp to come out as a gay man," Unruh said. "That was an appalling attempt to deflect attention away from what you actually are -- a sexual predator."Netflix has suspended production on "House of Cards," and Sony Pictures has pulled the film "All the Money in the World" from its AFI Fest premiere following the allegations made against Spacey, who co-stars in the Ridley Scott film.Unruh said her family was encouraged to come forward by the brave actions of the many women who have recently accused movie producer Harvey Weinstein. “I want to see Kevin Spacey go to jail," Unruh said. "I want to see Kevin Spacey have the hand of justice come down on him.”Nantucket police refused to confirm or deny any information about the case, because reports of sexual assault are confidential under state law.Spacey has not yet commented on the allegations.