Bill Cosby was found guilty of molesting a 16-year-old girl in 1975.

The jury inside civil case against Bill Cosby concluded today, Tuesday, that the comedian and actor sexually abused a 16 year old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.

The Los Angeles County Jury, United States, ruled and delivered the verdict in favour of Judy Huth, now 64, awarded him $ 500,000.

The jury concluded it Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with Judy Huthwho reasonably believed he was under the age of 18 and that his conduct was motivated by an abnormal sexual interest in a minor.

The jury’s decision is a serious legal defeat for the 84-year-old artist who was once nicknamed “The father of America”. almost arrives one year after his criminal conviction in Pennsylvania for sexual abuse he was lifted and released from prison.

Judy Huth’s lawsuit was one of the last pending against Cosby after her insurer reached multiple legal settlements with other alleged victims against Cosby’s wishes.

Cosby did not testify

Bill Cosby did not attend the trial or testify in person, but short videos of a statement released in 2015 were presented to the jury.

In said videos, Cosbydenied having had sexual contact with Huth. And currently, he continues to deny the allegations through his he attorney and publicist.

The jury had already concluded nearly every question formulated in the verdict format, including whether Bill Cosby had abused Judy Huth and whether she deserved compensation, last Friday after two days of deliberations.

But the jury supervisor was unable to continue his work due to a personal commitment and the jury had to start over with an alternate yesterday, Monday.

Cosby’s lawyers agreed that Cosby met Huth and a friend of hers on a movie set. in Southern California in 1975 and a few days later took them to the palace from Playboy.

Huth’s high school friend Donna Samuelson, a key witness, took photos of the mansion with Huth and Cosby, which were shown at the trial.

Huth testified that in a room next to an arcade where the three were having fun, Cosby attempted to slip his hand into her pants, then exposed himself and forced her to have sexual contact.

Huth filed a lawsuit in 2014., claiming that her son would have turned 15, the age she initially remembered going to the Playboy mansion and that a wave of women who accused Cosby of similar acts relived the trauma she suffered as a teenager. Source Brian Melley / AP.

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