Posted on 12/30/2015 7:31:49 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Bill Cosby was charged Wednesday with felony assault over an alleged encounter with a woman 12 years ago.
"We are here to announce today charges that have just been filed against William Henry Cosby. These charges stem from a sexual assault that took place on an evening in early 2004," Montgomery County district attorney Kevin Steel said in a press conference. "Mr. Cosby is charged with aggravated indecent assault. This is a felony charge."
Cosby is expected to be arraigned on the charge this afternoon in Elkins Park, Pa.
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I wish
he got away with it for over 30 years.
don’t think that statement really applies here.
I never thought of that at all.
but I hope some do. especially women under 50, who go for Clinton big.
but I don’t think so. forget all the feminist talk.
stand by your man is still big. no matter what he does.
in their eyes.
Clinton is a well documented serial sexual predator:
(from Capital Hill Blue)
1) A 1969 charge by a Eileen Wellstone, 19-year-old English woman who said Clinton assaulted her after she met him at a pub near the Oxford University campus where the future President was a student. A retired State Department employee, who asked not to be identified, confirmed this week that he spoke with the family of the girl and filed a report with his superiors. Clinton admitted having sex with the girl, but claimed it was consensual. The victim's family declined to pursue the case;
2) In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton, who was a law student at the college. No charges were filed, but retired campus policemen contacted by Capitol Hill Blue confirmed the incident. The woman, tracked down by Capitol Hill Blue last week, confirmed the incident, but declined to discuss it further;
3) In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law professor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse. Clinton claimed the student "came on" to him and she left the school shortly after the incident. Reached at her home in Texas last week, the former student confirmed the incident, but declined to go public with her account. Several former students at the University have confirmed the incident in confidential interviews and said there were other reports of Clinton attempting to force himself on female students;
4) Juanita Broaddrick, a volunteer in Clinton's gubernatorial campaign, said he raped her in 1978. Mrs. Broaddrick required treatment for a bruised and torn lip, which she said she suffered when Clinton bit her during the rape;
5) From 1978-1980, during Clinton's first term as governor of Arkansas, state troopers assigned to protect the governor reported seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually. One retired state trooper said in an interview that the common joke among those assigned to protect Clinton was "who's next?";
5) Carolyn Moffet, a legal secretary in Little Rock in 1979, said she met then-governor Clinton at a political fundraiser and shortly thereafter received an invitation to meet the governor in his hotel room. "I was escorted there by a state trooper. When I went in, he was sitting on a couch, wearing only an undershirt. He pointed at his penis and told me to suck it. I told him I didn't even do that for my boyfriend and he got mad, grabbed my head and shoved it into his lap. I pulled away from him and ran out of the room."
7) Elizabeth Ward, the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982, told friends she was forced by Clinton to have sex with him shortly after she won her state crown. Last year, Ward, who is now married with the last name of Gracen (from her first marriage), told an interviewer she did have sex with Clinton but said it was consensual. Close friends of Ward, however, say she still maintains privately that Clinton forced himself on her.
8) Paula Corbin (Paula Jones), an Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton after an encounter in a Little Rock hotel room where the then-governor exposed himself and demanded oral sex. Clinton settled the case with Jones recently with a cash payment.
9) Sandra Allen James, a former Washington, DC, political fundraiser says Presidential candidate-to-be Clinton invited her to his hotel room during a political trip to the nation's capital in 1991, pinned her against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress. She says she screamed loud enough for the Arkansas State Trooper stationed outside the hotel suite to bang on the door and ask if everything was all right, at which point Clinton released her and she fled the room. When she reported the incident to her boss, he advised her to keep her mouth shut if she wanted to keep working. Miss James has since married and left Washington. Reached at her home last week, the former Miss James said she later learned that other women suffered the same fate at Clinton's hands when he was in Washington during his Presidential run.
11) Christy Zercher, a flight attendant on Clinton's leased campaign plane in 1992, says Presidential candidate Clinton exposed himself to her, grabbed her breasts and made explicit remarks about oral sex. A video shot on board the plane by ABC News shows an obviously inebriated Clinton with his hand between another young flight attendant's legs. Zercher said later in an interview that White House attorney Bruce Lindsey tried to pressure her into not going public about the assault.
12) Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed her, fondled her breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during an Oval Office meeting in November, 1993. Willey, who told her story in a 60 Minutes interview, became a target of a White House-directed smear campaign after she went public.
good.
he raped more than 15 women.
has nothing to do with what gangs do.
this is what he did.
Most of them said he drugged them. Then raped them.
No excuse for that. He is a funny, gifted man who should spend the rest of his life telling jokes to inmates right before they rape him.
ALL THE EX-PRESIDENT'S SCANDALS
Nurse backs up Clinton rape charge
Attended Broaddrick's wounds after alleged assault in Arkansas
June 26, 2003
[a few excerpts from article...]
Kelsey recalls Broaddrick saying the meeting with Clinton began with small talk, and "she was a little surprised he was by himself."
"She said he was showing her locations outside the window there in Little Rock, and then, all of a sudden, he just kind of grabbed her and started kissing her," remembers Kelsey.
"He overtook her and pushed her to the bed, and from that point on it was just a rape."
Kelsey says Broaddrick explained how her lip became swollen: "He bit her lip to try to keep her from struggling with him.
will bubba be next?
The charge mentioned in the news release from the DA’s office in Montgomery County is “Aggravated Indecent Assualt” and according to the news release, there is a 12 year statute of limitations on this charge.
Cosby is being charged over an incident in 2004, when he lived at a guest house used by his alma mater, Temple University. Cosby had served for many years on the school’s board of trustees and was a big promoter.
The alleged victim was involved in the school’s basketball program.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for prosecuting the bleep out of anybody who does this sort of thing.
perhaps deleted in error, I posted and it came out in triplicate, 2 of mine had to be deleted
We are in agreement
He drugged women and then pulled out his weenie and raped them. Think how disgusting that is! Should any man on or off the plantation be able to do this?
Zip Zop Zoobity Bop Rapity Rop Gropity Grop.
“Keep Calm and...take these pills”
Time to employee the infamous Chewbacca Defense.
When is Bill Clinton going to be charged and Hillary for helping to cover it up?
Tawana Brawley
It was the most perfect, imperfect hate crime: a Black teen girl was abducted and raped by six White cops. Three weeks before her Sweet 16, Brawley life soured. She was found nearly unconscious cocooned in a garbage bag, grossly defiled with excrement and racial epithets from head to toe clad in charred clothing.
Instinctively Brawley became Black America's posterchild for racial injustice while Rev. Al Sharpton along with attorneys C. Vernon Mason and Alton H. Maddox became her legal dream team. Still her alleged tormenters, one of which (Police Officer Harry Crist, Jr.) committed suicideâwere never convicted.
That was 25 years ago today. And the case remains shrouded in mystery. he discrepancies surrounding Brawley's case read more like strange fiction while others blame racial bias for the lack of credibility.
Here's a brief recap of the conflicting details: On November 28, 1987, Brawley headed to her family's home at the Pavillion Condominiums in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., gets off the bus, is kidnapped and taken into the woods. Only problem is her family had allegedly been evicted two weeks prior, yet Brawley was supposedly seen entering the abandoned apartment the morning after her "abduction."
Her mother Glenda Brawley was allegedly spotted at the complex prior to the police finding her daughter but still didnât report Brawley missing until later that afternoon. Even more bizarre is the account of a white female resident that claims she saw a black female climb into a garbage bag and lay still on the ground before she decided to call the Dutchess County Police that immediately involved the FBI.
Then there's Brawley's rape kit which produced no evidence of sexual or physical assault let alone exposure to any outdoor elements after she had to withstand several days in below-freezing weather. According to a grand jury report, the damage to her clothing occurred in the apartment where the "items and instrumentalities" used to create her appearance were discovered.
And the charcoal-scrawled slurs 'KKK,' 'Ni****' and 'B****' on her chest and torso? Allegedly self-inscribed because they were written upside down while the feces on her body and hair had come from a neighbor's dog.
Not to mention alleged reports from various friends and witnesses that said she admitted to fabricating the story with her mom's help and that she was partying at local clubs during her "disappearance."
In the end, Brawley's disappearing act didn't impress and her accusations didn't add up in a court of law. Some believe it was an elaborate hoax orchestrated by her out of fear that her parents (particularly her stepfather Ralph King who was convicted for killing his first wife) would punish her for missing curfew and skipping school to visit an ex-boyfriend in jail.
In 2007, Glenda balked at the notion, telling the New York Daily News, "How could we make this up and take down the state of New York? We're just regular people. We should be millionaires."
Although the Brawleys didn't get a big payday, Tawana received monetary gifts and moral support from the industry's glitterati including Bill Cosby and former Essence magazine publisher Edward Lewis, who posted a $25,000 reward for information on the case; former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson gave her a $30,000 Rolex watch and pledged with boxing promoter Don $100,000 for her higher education.
Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagones, a local prosecutor accused of raping Brawley, proved the victor in a defamation suit for $345,000 against Rev. Sharpton, Mason and Maddox. ..."
http://www.ebony.com/black-listed/news-views/tawana-brawley-case-25-years-later-981
Possibly they collected rape kit evidence, but dismissed it because he said it was consensual at the time.
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