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NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
A jury outside Philadelphia convicted the "Cosby Show" star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday. The guilty verdict came less than a year after another jury deadlocked on the charges.
Cosby was charged with violating Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. His lawyer called Constand a "con artist" who leveled false accusations against Cosby so she could sue him.
Cosby could get up to 10 years in prison on each of the counts.
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After the verdict was announced, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele asked Judge Steven O'Neill to revoke Coby's bail and send him to jail right away.
"I understand this is very serious ... however to ask to revoke the bail of individual ... is your concern?" O'Neill asked Steele.
"Flight," Steele said. "To any place. He has a plane."
At that point, Cosby screamed out in a booming voice: "He doesn't have a plane you a------!"
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Camille Cosby on her husband’s conviction: ‘This is mob justice, not real justice’
by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Sonia Rao May 3 at 10:44 AM
Seven days after Bill Cosby was convicted on three counts of sexual assault, Camille O. Cosby offered a fiery defense of her husband, the iconic entertainer. Her nearly 800-word statement, posted to Facebook Thursday morning, likened her husband’s ordeal to the racially charged killing of Emmett Till and called the accusations and ensuing conviction “mob justice, not real justice.”
“In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs,” she wrote.
Camille Cosby also called for a criminal investigation into the Pennsylvania prosecutor behind her husband’s conviction.
Bill Cosby was found guilty last week of assaulting Andrea Constand, the only woman among dozens of accusers to bring criminal charges against the disgraced comedian. A jury took less than two days to convict Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting Constand in 2004. A Temple University women’s basketball operations director more than three decades his junior, Constand was lured by Cosby into his home with promises of mentorship.
The conviction could put the 80-year-old comedian in prison for the rest of his life.
As The Washington Post’s Manuel Roig-Franzia reported, Cosby was “once one of the nation’s most admired men, a pioneering African American actor beloved for his role as Dr. Cliff Huxtable on the 1980s megahit ‘The Cosby Show.’” But “he was recast in a suburban Philadelphia courtroom as a merciless predator and sexual deviant in the first celebrity trial of the #metoo era of awareness about sexual assault and harassment.”
No sentencing date has been set. The conviction comes in a retrial of a 2017 case in which a mistrial was declared.
Bill and Camille Cosby have been married since 1964, and she is said to have inspired his character’s wife, Clair Huxtable (played by Phylicia Rashad, who also defended her former co-star, before his conviction). Camille Cosby remained by her husband’s side as the number of accusations against him grew, though she rarely spoke publicly about the case. In 2014, she broke her silence with a statement questioning the portrayal of her husband by the media, likening it to the explosive, “untrue” story Rolling Stone had published about campus rape at the University of Virginia.
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Why did Bill Cosby want to have sex with comatose women?
Experts speculate it could be a fetish
By Alice Robb 07.10.15
..........“Somnophilia is the term used to refer to sexual arousal from a sleeping or unconscious person,” said Renee Sorrentino, a psychiatrist and the director of the Institute for Sexual Wellness in Massachusetts. “We don’t know the prevalence of somnophilia—but I suspect it’s quite rare. I have never seen a case of somnophilia.”
Michael Aaron, a sex therapist in New York, compared Cosby’s behavior to a sinister fetish that’s more familiar—from horror movies and stories of morticians gone rogue. “This would be a type of fetish that is not exactly like, but has some similarities to necrophilia, which is sexual arousal for dead people,” he wrote in an email.
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Bill Cosby's First Meal Behind Bars Will Include Pudding:
According to TMZ, Bill Cosby will be served pudding as part of his first meal behind bars. Cosby's currently being held at Montgomery County Correctional Facility before he's transferred to state prison. Sources from the facility said that Cosby's first meal in jail will include a chicken patty with gravy, mixed vegetables, mashed potatoes, iced tea mix, and vanilla pudding.
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