Choose in California awards sufferer $500,000 in damages in a significant authorized defeat for the 84-year-old comic.
A jury in California has discovered comic Invoice Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old lady on the Playboy Mansion in 1975.
The civil court docket on Tuesday awarded the now 64-year-old Judy Huth $500,000 in damages.
“It’s been torture,” Huth mentioned of the seven-year authorized struggle. “To be ripped aside, you recognize, thrown below the bus and backed over. This, to me, is such an enormous victory.”
Jurors discovered that Cosby deliberately prompted dangerous sexual contact with Huth, that he moderately believed she was below 18, and that his conduct was pushed by unnatural or irregular sexual curiosity in a minor.
The choice is a major authorized defeat for the 84-year-old entertainer as soon as hailed as America’s dad. It comes almost a 12 months after his Pennsylvania legal conviction for sexual assault was thrown out and he was free of jail. Huth’s lawsuit was one of many final remaining authorized claims towards him after his insurer settled many others towards his will.
Cosby didn't attend the trial or testify in particular person, however brief clips from a 2015 video deposition had been performed for jurors, wherein he denied any sexual contact with Huth. He continues to disclaim the allegation by way of his lawyer and publicist.
The comic’s legal professionals agreed that Cosby met Huth and her highschool pal on a Southern California movie set in April of 1975, then took them to the Playboy Mansion a number of days later.
Huth’s pal Donna Samuelson, a key witness, took images on the mansion of Huth and Cosby, which loomed massive on the trial.
Huth testified that in a bed room subsequent to a video games room the place the three had been hanging out, Cosby tried to place his hand down her pants, then uncovered himself and compelled her to carry out a intercourse act.
Cosby’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean challenged Huth’s account all through the trial, together with modifications to the timeline.
When the lawsuit was filed in December 2014, Huth mentioned the incident occurred in 1974, when she was 15. Nevertheless, she advised jurors she had lately concluded that she had been mistaken concerning the 12 months and believed it had truly occurred a 12 months later.
Cosby is greatest recognized for his position because the loveable husband and father within the Nineteen Eighties tv comedy collection The Cosby Present.
However his family-friendly fame was shattered after greater than 50 girls accused him of sexual assaults over almost 5 a long time.
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