Bill Cosby, back in the eye of the storm. He was tried again for child sexual abuse. Photo by Reuters
Popular American comedian Bill Cosby could be seen obliged to pay up to eight million dollars to an alleged rape victim of hers in the 1970s, when she was minorif a twelve-person jury in Santa Monica that begins ruling this Thursday, June 16 after hearing testimony for two weeks, finds him guilty.
This is a lawsuit brought by Judy Huth64 years old, against the actor, who accuses of taking her to a party at the Playboy Mansion and after forcing her to practice sexual practices on him in 1975when he was a minor.
After two weeks of trial, the woman’s attorney, Nathan Goldberg, asked her client for compensation of four to eight million in total, according to the specialist site. Variety.
“He didn’t pay for what he did. He got away with it“, expressed the lawyer, in motivating the request for financial compensation.
Judy Huth arrives at the court where Bill Cosby will be tried. The victim is now 64 years old. Photo by Reuters
A delayed cause with gadgets
This lawsuit was filed in 2014, but the comedian’s defense managed to delay treatment through various gadgets.
It should be remembered that Bill Cosby has dozens of sexual abuse allegations and in all cases it is noted that he took advantage of the affection of the public and the image of his family to attack his victims.
In this scenario, the actor’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, asked the jury to put aside the other cases and focus on the “lack of credibility” of Huth’s account of the events that took place in 1975.
Bill Cosby was previously convicted of sexual abuse.
“Doing the right thing isn’t always popularand doing what’s popular isn’t always right. I will not give credit to someone’s story simply because we live in times where “if you say so, it must be true”. No. The media can and do, “the defender said.
Likewise, Bonjean questioned the alleged victim’s delay in filing the complainthe hinted that he is only looking for money encouraged by the other cases that have emerged and tried to show that there was consensus.
attack the victim
To do this, he relied on some inaccuracies in the victims’ accounts, which his lawyer downplayed due to the large amount of time that has elapsed; in the fact that there had already been a sexual encounter between the two previously; and she even tried to show a photo from the time to point out that Huth’s appearance at the time wasn’t too different from that of any Playboy “bunny”.
“These are young women who didn’t present themselves as children or even teenagers,” Bonjean said, showing photos from the time. “They looked like a lot of other young women in the Playboy Mansion.”
Bill Cosby, protected by the police, in one of his sexual abuse statements. AP photo
However, the prosecution reminded him Cosby had told Huth that if asked, he would say she was 18.in time to refute the argument that the actor did not know the young woman’s true age.
“What is your reason for taking her there? Was she looking for new friends to make?” They were there because he wanted to have sex and he didn’t care if they were minors or not? exclaimed the actor’s lawyer.
During the two weeks of the oral trial, some witnesses marched in favor of the prosecution, while Cosby did not participate at any time and only one video was broadcast in which he provided his version of events.
It was also possible to see a 2016 testimony from Hugh Hefner, the late owner of the Playboy empire, in which he claimed he had never seen Cosby with minors and did not allow girls under 18 to be present in the famous home. years.
Now the jury has to decide in the next few days, even if the deadlines are not reported, e for there to be a verdict, nine of the twelve members must agree of this body.
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