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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There could be non-disclosure clauses to keep both parties from talking about that suit after the settlement.
Clearly she’d gone off the deep end chemically. And it occurred when she was attending adult Hollywood parties (not even brat packs).
If a man has millions its a plausible scenerio especially if the settlement has a gag order in it.
Think its wise to be skeptical of such claims unless there’s real evidence to back it up.
I recall when Herman Cain ran for president and then women came out the closet claiming harassment even then I was sketical.
Hollyweird.
I bet there is, that would be part of what Cosby would insist on when 14 women came forward from all over the country to testify that he was a long time serial rapist with a certain method, involving drugging his victims.
Don’t confuse Herman Cain with Bill Cosby’s settling to conceal a decades old pattern of being a serial rapist.
Me either. I remember that "anything goes" milieu of the '70s. A lot of people did a lot of crazy things they probably regretted later. That was pretty much the culture, or the counterculture. To call out a celebrity for something that may or may not have happened in that haze 40 years ago is a pretty clear indication the goal is money, not justice.
If these suits against Cosby should succeed, think of the rock bands of the past 50 years or so that'll be sued by their groupies, many of whom I'm sure were happy to be groupies back then, but would have no problem becoming "victims" today, if the payoff is rich and Gloria is representing them.
Bingo
The 1970s?
He settled out of court for a 2004 rape, a police report was filed in 2000 on a 1998 assault, and the latest victim says she was raped in 2006.
This stuff covers all the decades, even the 1960s.
This particular case stems from 1974.
Yes, this particular case does. Others make the total of 5 decades
Double bingo.....
....and all the casting couch confrontations of eager starlets of the 70’s who could potentially decide now they were’n ‘t eager at all.
I’ll never forget listening to to Clarence Thomas being grilled about a hair on a coke bottle.
And for what it is worth......I just returned from a cruise where the comedian talked about Cosby only hiring other comedians that work ‘clean’.....no smut.
The women follow the same pattern. Make allegations years after the alleged incident. The decison to wait for years makes all the women’s allegations suspect.
A civil settlement does not mean much unless the accuser has actual evidence and not just her words. If you can show actual evidence from the settlement I’m willing to be less skeptical and agree with you.
Cosby was 37 in 1974.
No they don’t follow the same pattern, but you sure do.
The pattern is waiting years to come forward. That is the similarity.
I did post if you had more proof than words from the settlement I’m willing to change my opinion. Right now I’m quite skeptical.
“And for what it is worth......I just returned from a cruise where the comedian talked about Cosby only hiring other comedians that work ‘clean’.....no smut.”
It is not worth a thing, because the type of personality and behavior in these allegations is a classic example consistent with a celebrity Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde switch between the make believe public persona and the actual private persona. I’ve personally witnessed a celebrity behave like that, so I know it’s possible. Cosby has been described as demonstrating this kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde good versus bad behavior by males employed to provide various normal services for this celebrity. I also worked with some cocktail waitresses who worked as Playboy Bunnies at the Playboy Mansion in the 70s, and they singled out Bill Cosby as a celebrity at the Playboy Mansion who they were uncomfortable with for reasons they refused to comment about.
So, there are abundant reasons to keep an open mind about the Bill Cosby rape allegations whether or not some of the rape allegations are false allegations coming from some opportunistic gold diggers oblivious and uncaring about what they are doing to any women with truthful allegations of rape.
In 2005 a police report was filed for a 2004 rape, while the DA believes the woman, there wasn’t enough evidence for him to charge Cosby successfully, so the woman sued in 2005 found 13 more of his rape victims and Cosby had to settle out of court.
I would say that your man looks to be guilty of rape, you think he never raped a single woman, oddly enough the people who knew him best during his 50 years in the industry don’t seem as confident as you, and this fatherly figure can’t find anyone to come to his defense and express outrage at him being accused of being a serial rapist and molester for his entire career.
Even Hefner, Cosby being his best friend, and a man who would know Cosby’s sexual tastes, won’t defend him.
You must be quite the Bill Clinton defender about his being accused of rape, most of us think Clinton is a rapist, but we have to form our opinions from what we have available.
“The pattern is waiting years to come forward. That is the similarity.”
There is no such pattern, so you are using the false logic known as the strawman argument. There is no such pattern, because some of the alleged victims attempted to gain support from friends and professionals such as their talent agent or a lawyer, only to have their allegation dismissed with ridicule and contempt without any meaningful consideration immediately after the attacks and/or within the first year.
If someone were to rape you, you had no means of proving the encounter was a rape, any of your attempts to even discuss your rape was immediately dismissed with disdain and ridicule, and the statute of limitations finally passed; would you continue to remain silent when you learned dozens of other women were also being drugged and raped with similar impunity; wouldn’t you come forward too if for no other reason than to warn away other women who could become the rapist’s unwitting victims?
Not a Clinton defender at all. Not even Cosby fan since he became an Al Sharpton obot. I am a skeptic of rape claims made years after the alleged incident.
Thanks for providing info on one of the accusers. She waited a year to file charges. Had no evidence but her word. Not enough to convict and I’m still skeptical of its truth.
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