Actor and comedian Bill Cosby is helped as he leaves a court appearance, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, in Elkins Park, Pa. Cosby was arrested and charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in January 2004.
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Prosecutors in Montgomery County announced that Cosby is being charged with “aggravated indecent assault”.
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“This is a felony”, Mr Kevin Steele, assistant district attorney for the state’s Montgomery County, told reporters earlier in Norristown, in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
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If found guilty, Cosby, 78, could face a maximum of 10 years in prison.
Cosby went to court hours after the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney’s Office filed charges against him in the case of Andrea Constand, a former employee of Temple University, who claims that the comic drugged and raped her at his mansion in Philadelphia.
Several other women who have also accused Cosby of sexual abuse and assault had mixed emotions at the news of his criminal charges.
Constand, who worked for the women’s basketball team at Temple, where Cosby was a trustee and proud alumnus, said she was assaulted after going to his home in January 2004 for some career advice.
Some unsealed documents from the civil suit revealed that Cosby has admitted to getting prescription Quaaludes to give to women he wanted to have sex with.
Even though Cosby was deposed in October for the Huth case, Allred said she filed a motion to order a second deposition because of Cosby’s refusal to answer questions in the first deposition. But in almost every case, it is too late to file criminal charges.
“I do believe that [prosecutors are] not gonna bring these facts in a high-profile case like this unless they feel they have probable cause and enough facts to move forward”, she said.
As a direct result of Cosby’s alleged actions, Constand said she “suffered serious and debilitating injuries, mental anguish, humiliation, embarrassment”, and “physical and emotional upset”. Ferman, a former prosecutor of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse with an impressive record in civic engagement and advocacy, set about trying to prove it. This summer, she quietly reopened the case, sending investigators to re-interview Constand in Toronto, where she works as a massage therapist. He told her to “just taste the wine”, so she took a couple sips. So subtract the 15 liars from the 50 total and you still get 35 women who are telling the truth about being drugged and raped by Bill Cosby.
Steele says recently released excerpts from Cosby’s deposition in a civil lawsuit led to the renewed investigation.
Cosby and his lawyers have repeatedly denied the allegations that have been aired against him by a growing number of women. The papers say despite the comedian’s claims that he could read women, he didn’t realize that Constand is a lesbian.
Though she said she’s also a longtime Cosby fan herself, Deborah Kosak, of Swarthmore, said she tends to believe the accusations. “Does she bear some responsibility, and does that undercut the criminal charges against Bill Cosby?”.
After the arraignment, Cosby went to the police station in Cheltenham Township, where he was booked and his mugshot was taken according to protocol.
Another one of the seven plaintiffs is Barbara Bowman, an artist who alleged Cosby raped her in the 1980s when she was a teenager and aspiring actress.
“I’m thinking, ‘What a relief, ‘” said Isa Woldeguiorguis, the executive director of the Center for Hope and Healing in Lowell, Massachusetts.
They may fear public judgment, unsympathetic law enforcement and invasion of privacy, says Berkowitz.
Although Allred represents over two dozen accusers, only one of them, Judy Huth, is engaged in a civil lawsuit with the comedian.
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So, OK, maybe they shouldn’t have banned the reruns of “The Cosby Show“.
