A California jury found Bill Cosby guilty of sexual assault in a civil trial on Monday, awarding Donna Motsinger $19.25m in damages. Motsinger alleged in the case that while working as a restaurant server in 1972, she was drugged and raped by Cosby after he gave her a glass of wine in his limousine.
Motsinger sued Cosby after California amended its laws to change the statutes of limitations on when accusers can file sexual assault cases. In remarks after the jury’s verdict, she described the trial as a five-decade-long effort to get justice.
Cosby, once one of the most successful men in comedy and an entertainment icon, has largely disappeared from public view in the past decade amid widespread allegations of sexual misconduct. In addition to the dozens of women who have accused Cosby of drugging and sexual assault, he has faced a series of civil trials – including Los Angeles county jurors in 2022 finding that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy mansion in 1975.
It’s enough to regret eating Jell-O as a kid. I was fine with the horse hooves …
I honestly thought he was dead.
If only the courts worked that way for the pedofile-in-chief, you know, the head of the current epstein administration
Cosby is out of prison because the prosecutor violated a previous agreement but sure
You are engaging in whataboutism, which never advances anything. Two things can be bad at the same time without manufacturing a connection.
I don’t think that was whataboutism. That seemed to me like an expression of exasperation because they believe the current potus, being someone who has been found in court to have committed similar activities, seems to be let off the hook.
That’s a fair statement. They didn’t say that Cosby should get away with it because Trump did. That would be whataboutism.
Trump did receive a fine, the same as Cosby, so he did get the same punishment.
With roughly the same impact as me being fined $10.
Sure. I’m not defending the punishment. But it is the same.
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We need to stop pretending Civil Trials put these assholes behind bars where they belong. The conflation is part of how they’ve been opely escaping justice in the public eye for as long as I can remember.
