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Tonight, the former governor's attorney saying in a statement a short time ago that governor cuomo has never assaulted anyone. abc's stephanie ramos leading us off. >> reporter: he resigned in disgrace, and tonight, former new york governor andrew cuomo now facing criminal charges. the charge, one misdemeanor count of forcible touching, filed by the albany county sheriff's office today. from an incident at the governor's mansion on december 7th, 2020, when cuomo "forcibly placed his hand under the blouse" of an unnamed victim and "onto her intimate body part, intentionally and for no legitimat...

A Delaware County man is accused of forcibly touching the intimate parts of a child.

Are true, they rise to the level of criminal conduct, what we know as misdemeanors, forcible touching, sexual abuse in the third degree. so the question for the district attorney's office, fix they will investigate and make sure that there is credibility, no credibility issues regarding this witness or any other because they certainly don't want to move forward with a case unless they are confident that they can make a case that they can win at the end and prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. >> what about potential civil actions, are they more likely? >> civil actions are much easier to prove....

We have manhattan, we have nassau. but as it relates to this, there is a statute called forcible touching and relates to squeezing, pinching, groping, but what it speaks to is you have to do it with the intent of either degradation or as it relates to sexual gratification. and so i think the defense will be, hey, this is politics. this is how i relate to people. this is how i interact with people. i didn't do it with any intent to sexually gratify. we know that's an -- what does that mean, pamela? it means it's punishable by up to a year, distinguishable from a felony which is punishable by a ...

There is a crime under new york state law for forcible touching. forcibly touching a person without consent for sexual purposes. of the 11 complainants, the three of them made allegations that if true could meet the definition of forcible touching and we know five district attorneys are looking at these complaints. if you're going to bring a criminal charge, you have to be able to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. that's the highest burden of proof. then we have potential civil claims. any of all of these complainants could sue the state of new york for harassment, retaliation, hostile work ...