The gossip is that someone on The Cosby Show knows first hand what kind of things happened. Victim.
Speculation has been that it is Lisa Bonet.
Now she tweets this:
According to the karma of past actions, ones destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky Nothing stays in the dark 4ever!
Lisa Bonet (@Lilakoi_Moon) November 22, 2014
Probably not an uh-oh. The age of consent which is the basis for statutory rape laws has been raised in a lot of states over the past few decades — oddly the “blue” states leading the way to push it to 18. Most likely when and where this took place, 16 year olds were deemed able to consent to sex, and sex with a consenting 16 year old was not a crime.
The issues here are two-fold, one moral — any truth to the allegations, even Scotti’s allegations, and Cosby is shown to be a hypocrite — the other legal, based on the accusations that Cosby is guilty of actual rape in the classical legal sense (not turning on niceties of age-of-consent which vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction) by the use of amnestic drugs.