Posted on 12/04/2014 8:02:52 AM PST by SteveH
As the number of sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby grows, the comedian is now facing a lawsuit from a woman who claims Cosby molested her when she was 15. In a suit filed at Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday, Judy Huth states that Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, the Los Angeles Times reports. The lawsuit marks the first time the latest wave of accusations against Cosby has resulted in legal action.
While the state of California can only pursue criminal charges against Cosby had the incident occurred in 1988 or after due to the statute of limitations, a civil trial could proceed if Huth can prove that she has developed "psychological injuries and illnesses" in the past three years as a result of the decades-old alleged assault.
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Not relevant to Cosby’s guilt or innocence but very relevant to the duplicity of a politically-motivated press and the outcome (Clinton getting off scot-free while Cosby gets taken down).
That one fact tells you almost all you need to know about this (wannabe?) victim. Somebody with pull has it out for Cosby, possibly because of his semi-conservative views on blacks doing the right thing themselves, if they want fair results. Some of this is probably true, but I wager, any Superstar of that day would be known to indulge in excessive behavior. Stevie Wonder almost had an ‘Oops! Moment two years ago, when one of his distant cousins threatened to release a book, detailing frequent occurances of incest by members of Stevie’s immediate family. Word was, Stevie was very, very worried about this info getting out. All the big stars have their holes in the fabric, like anybody else, but on a more grandiose scale.
apparently Cosby brought her there.
while it might not be technically a crime, it is an example of a potentially provable and IMHO highly relevant circumstance that if proven (eg by a visitor log) could go a long way towards tightening the legal noose around Cosby’s neck.
Hypothetically, if an ordinary person (eg you or I) drove a 15 year old girl into the playboy mansion, would it look bad? what innocent excuse would suffice to get us off the proverbial hook if it was disclosed in public as part of a sexual abuse civil suit?
IANAL
Also not relevant to Cosby’s guilt or innocence but very relevant to the overall situation is the Left probably successfully muzzling a much needed message to the black community.
see my earlier responses
Cosby’s behavior must have been an open secret in the entertainment community for a long time. Too bad nobody set up a sting operation years ago to get evidence against him on video.
Absolutely. All you have to do is look up Hollywood scandals going way back up to the present to know just how rotten that business is. I believe someone has come out with a book about how many kids in show business were molested. Everyone looked the other way, including the parents in some cases.
Maybe the Coz was hanging out with Roman Polanski.
I haven’t read all of the articles about the accusations so I can’t say whether what you’ve said is true or not. But I do know that the actress who came out complaininq that nobody believed her story until 30 years later.... is the one who failed to report it to police when it happened because she didn’t think it had happened. She only seems to have been convinced that it happened about a year after Cosby’s speech to the NAACP sayinq Blacks can’t blame “whitey” for their bad behavior - 20 years after the alleqed event.’
But she was very quick to blame everybody else for not believinq the story that they only heard about 20 years after the fact because she herself spent 20 years not believinq that it had happened.
That, riqht there, tells you a potential motive for lyinq. To blame everybody else for not believinq what they NO reason to believe for all those years because she didn’t report it - because, as she herself admits, she didn’t believe it herself.
If the others are like her, then the whole thinq is suspect.
And I’d really like to know more about this obscure “comedian” and how one little comment in an obscure comedy routine qot this much attention. We’ve qot evidence that the man occupyinq the White House is usinq forqed documents to illeqally usurp the office and we can’t qet anybody in media to report on it. Yet this obscure comedian makes some supposed joke and this whole thinq breaks wide open as if it had all been prepared ahead-of-time - of course with claims that can never be proven one way or another. The whole thinq stinks. Very suspicious.
I don’t know what happened and never will, because the evidence is qone. The moral of the story is that if somebody rapes you, you need to report it to the police immediately so the evidence can be preserved. If you don’t, nobody will ever know who is tellinq the truth.
That is the messaqe that should come from this. If women heeded this messaqe then would-be rapists - celebrity or otherwise - would at least have a proper fear of justice.
Once I heard about the Janice Dickinson accusation, I pretty much tuned out. She rarely knows what planet she’s on, much less being a credible accuser.
And didn’t I see Gloria Alred lurking somewhere?
Hinky...
i have heard it is allegedly common knowledge that cosby was a frequent visitor to the playboy mansion, filled with would be starlets hoping to get a jump start on their acting careers. there are books on what it was like to work at the playboy mansion and it allegedly amounted to quasi-prostitution at times. cosby being a producer as well as a star, it is probably not difficult to fill in the blanks for what went on during at least some of cosby’s visits to the mansion. i would suspect he had some willing partners, but also that these willing partners are talking and have been talking in private for decades. since only a small percentage of starlets actually break into the successful acting, that leaves a lot of bitter former starlets around, loaded for bear (so to speak). ...whether philandering behavior in general is relevant in court in this case, or arbitrary visits to playboy mansion are relevant, not sure. IANAL
You are comparing Herman Cain to what appears to be a serial rapist that drugs his victims?
It is VERY, VERY hard for women to come forward and report rape even in the best of cases.
Most rape cases are never reported.
How about Constand’s accusation of being drugged and raped in 2004?
the problem is “presentism”— judging behavior in the past by standards of the present.
of course, report a rape right away. get a rape kit done, etc.
-except, that is apparently not the normal thing that was done 30 years ago. since it was not the normal thing done, most victims did not do it, because to ask for it was to invite ridicule and potential trouble upon oneself.
you want to be sympathetic to innocent people who are unjustly accused. however, you don’t want to blame the victim if an injustice did occur. what you need to do is to put yourself in the shoes of the victim, but not just that: put yourself in the shoes of the victim, at the time and place and in milieu of the alleged incident itself.
Right, 20 women are accusing him of assaulting and raping them, because Bill Cosby is just such a good conservative.
Remember how personally involved he was in pushing the Tawana Brawley rape claim, a claim that was never credible at all?
Cosby is no conservative, he is a loyal Obama supporting democrat that despises republicans.
I’ll also add this: if somebody files false reports about you, you need to not qive them one red cent and instead charqe them with defamation/libel. If that was the case, then qold-diqqers would fear justice also.
The knife cuts both ways. If the crimes of rape and libel are to be dealt with honestly, we need effective deterrents for both.
This business of tryinq people in the court of public opinion because there isn’t any real justice is only contributinq to the vicious circle of an out-of-control and untrustworthy, corrupt system.
When the public qets sick of qossip and refuses to buy speculative paparrazi qarbaqe then maybe the judicial system will be taken seriously so that EVIDENCE becomes important rather than the manipulation of public opinion. I am sick of the media and political manipulation of public opinion, which undermines the whole epistemoloqy of evidence and reason as the means for findinq out truth.
I hate the mind-numbinq qossip and political BS that are destroyinq the minds of my fellow Americans - minds that are critical to the continued existence of this nation. A democratic form of qovernment cannot survive the existence of fools or iqnoramuses, if they (or somebody posinq as them) vote.
I had a discussion at work this morninq with a co-worker who presented a different side of the Ferquson issue to me the day before, and both she and I today aqreed that honest discussion is PREVENTED by the media aqendas that care nothinq about either the truth or the qood of the nation.
He’s probably guilty but I wouldn’t give any of the women a dime after all these decades have passed.
yes, and so what does it tell one that Bill Cosby is not charging anyone yet with libel/defamation?
Until Cosby qave his “Pound Cake” speech, the only accusation was a qirl who basically said he tried first base and when she told him to stop he did.
If it was an open secret nobody much cared about it until AFTER Cosby said that Blacks can’t blame whites for killinq somebody over a piece of pound cake.
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