Posted on 12/16/2014 7:29:23 PM PST by WhiskeyX
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday declined to file any charges against Bill Cosby after a woman recently claimed the comedian molested her around 1974.
The rejection of a child sexual abuse charge by prosecutors came roughly 10 days after the woman, Judy Huth, met with Los Angeles police detectives for 90 minutes.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office rejected filing a misdemeanor charge of annoying or molesting a child under the age of 18 because the statute of limitations had passed.
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A woman who is raped needs to go to the police/hospital immediately.
If she waits years then comes forward she does a disservice to rape victims and herself by delaying the report of the rape.
Tired of the excuses, take personal responsibility.
Being “Tired of the excuses” works two ways.
“A woman who is raped needs to go to the police/hospital immediately.”
Bill Cosby allegedly used a date rape drug to rape these women. These date rape drugs are virtually undetectable in many cases. The drug also leaves the victims very disoriented and often ill for a period of hours or days after administration. Even if the raped woman were able to overcome all of the debilitating effects of the intimidation, shock, fear, personal disgust, and so forth, how do suppose she can face the ordeal of Bill Cosby carrying through with his threat to deny the rape with a false claim the sex or rape was consensual? How do you think she is going to be able to prove to the satisfaction of the police that the rape was not consensual, especially when the accused is Bill Cosby with his celebrity status? If dozens of women rape victims, real and/or imagined, at this late date are supposed to be completely without any credibility whatsoever, then what chance of credibility would a rape victim in a state of inner turmoil assume she would have, especially when her own talent agent treats her with contempt?
“If she waits years then comes forward she does a disservice to rape victims and herself by delaying the report of the rape.”
Many of the victims did not wait years to come forward. Their complaints to their talent agent, lawyer, family, friends were dismissive and/or shared the fear of disbelief and retaliation which would result from going public with the accusations.
“Tired of the excuses, take personal responsibility.”
A diplomat celebrity pulled a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde act on me in an attempt to coerce me into serving as his pimp. He threatened me with consequences if I didn’t immediately procure him some college girls and boys for his sexual escapades, when the university appointed me as his university student host for a conference. Knowing he enjoyed diplomatic immunity, I left him and reported the incident to the university professor responsible for my assignment and the conference. He assured me I did the right thing and instructed me to leave the matter to him. Weeks later the friends of this diplomat in the university administration fulfilled the threats of intimidation. Since it was a matter of my verbal word against all of their reputations, I was defenseless. I took personal responsibility, and paid a lifelong price for doing so. I wouldn’t change a thing, but you had better realize these women were in a nearly impossible dilemma, given the ability of a celebrity to commit a crime with impunity by using the natural sympathy the public has for celebrities who are falsely accused for monetary gain and revenge.
Everything all of you Cosby defenders are saying about Bill could be said about Jerry Sandusky. Many of his victims never went to the police, most of them had NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE or eye witnesses, and some of them even lied about being abused and even had written letters to Sandusky praising him.
Now by your standards all of these kids were worthless and drunk, promiscuous, gold diggers, out to get Jerry Sandusky, his money, and Penn State’s millions.
Since there is no evidence Jerry did anything, those kids should shut up and quit trying to ruin this saint of a man who deserves to be out walking the streets, running his kid charity that helps troubled youth, going to middle schools to meet 12-year-olds, taking them to football games and Penn State’s locker room to shower, and bringing kids to his home and basement for sleepovers.
And, by the way, one of the victims went to the police after being molested in a shower. The police conducted an investigation and determined no charges should be filed, it was fine for Jerry to be out doing God only knows what, but they did tell him to stop showering with boys.
I’m sure you all defended Jerry Sandusky when his story was in the news.
If one waits 40 years to report a crime one should not expect to win a law suit. That’s just the way it is. I tend to believe there is some truth to some of this but that is just me....there evidently is no proof. He will wind up buying his way out but his reputation is toast!!!
...because the statute of limitations had passed.
“If one waits 40 years to report a crime one should not expect to win a law suit.”
She did not really “expect to win a law suit”, but the law enforcement people asked to investigate her claims after they were made public. She added her voice to those of the other accusers to defend each other.
Glad you're so confident.
If one is raped or drugged one goes to the police not other people.
Let the CSI collect evidence so even if the accused isn’t prosecuted the rape victim did the right thing by reporting immediately the crime.
Actually you are the one doing a disservice to rape victims as you repeat yourself on this thread over, and over, and over, ‘not enough evidence to convict’, as though this is a court room rather than a discussion forum, we hear your OJ chant, and I like I said you must have been great on the Bill Clinton threads with the same chanting over and over as we discussed the evidence of his rapes that convinced most of us that he is indeed a rapist.
Cosby should have taken responsibility and not settled when his 2004 rape victim and 13 more of his victims came forward.
Today, he doesn’t deny drugging and raping her.
Clinton, OJ, Ted Kennedy, and on and on, you can just keep repeating yourself over and over, on all such threads.
Thomas was so bad she followed him when he went to different office...glad to read your rational replys.
Thomas was so bad she followed him when he went to different office...glad to read your rational replys.
Now you remind me the Ferguson protestors, making a judgement when no evidence backs it up.
Your posts just get sillier and more strident, as you keep repeating yourself over and over.
You must be awesome as you chant the same thing on the Bill Clinton rape threads, here you want to pretend that you are mystified at what evidence people are seeing that leads them to think that Cosby is a serial rapist.
There is a reason that Cosby has no support from the people who knew and worked with him for the 50 years in question.
Don’t recall posting on the Clinton rape threads.
Too bad you can’t respect waiting for evidence before condemning a man for rape.
Did you support Tawanna Brawley, Crystal Mangnum when they made their rape claims? I waited for the evidence before having a judgement.
You can have your opinion. I don’t have to agree with it.
Bill Clinton’s record of brutality against women,
Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - “forced himself on her, biting, bruising her”
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidations, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcomed sexual advance, intimidations
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet -unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcomed physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances while married to one of his supporters
The evidence is that many of them made public statements. Broadrrick had bruises and injuries. Paula Jones settled. We can make judgements in and outside the judicial process. My judgement is that Clinton is a serial abuser of women.
Cosby was personally involved in promoting the Tawana Brawley rape hoax.
You really want to expose yourself as so stupid that you are comparing all of this evidence against Cosby, which dwarfs Clinton’s, and has already resulted in a settlement by Cosby in the past, to The girl Brawley’s claim, or to the woman Crystal’s claim?
Reading your posts, you seem unable to distinguish between cases, blind, yet you show up on the discussion threads anyway, to keep repeating the same thing over and over with great passion and dedication.
You resort to namecalling because someone wants more evidence before forming an opinion...that’s silly.
I’ve been very polite to you while you’ve grown increasingly hostile.
You have a good day now.
For a guy who hasn’t formed an opinion, you are sure posting in defense of Cosby obsessively, passionately, and with dedication, yet not saying anything useful or informative or offering anything new, or contributing to the conversation in any way.
You just keep repeating yourself over and over, all one can conclude is that you do not want freepers discussing these accusations and forming opinions on them.
Those who have a personal relationship with the Savior will know where they stand, it won’t be vague.
Blessings.
I’m lady...soo....this is why I’m tougher on women who make rape accusations & don’t report it immediately. I would do so and encourage the women I know to do so.
I wasn’t aware freepers had to have the same opinion on the Cosby rape accusations.
Have a nice day now.
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