Former comedian Bill Cosby has been found guilty of sexual abuse by a civil jury. A jury in Santa Monica, Calif., ruled that Cosby molested a 16-year-old girl in the 1970s, the verdict said.<\/p>\n
The attack took place at the Playboy Mansion, home of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in Los Angeles. The jury sentenced the 84-year-old to pay the plaintiff $500,000 in damages.<\/p>\n
According to her lawyer, Cosby first got the teens drunk and then took her to the Playboy Mansion. Plaintiff testified that Cosby assaulted in a bedroom. He first asked her to sit next to him on a bed. He then groped her, exposed himself to her and forced her to touch him sexually.<\/p>\n
The 64-year-old had already sued Cosby in 2014. There was no criminal prosecution because the incident was already statute-barred. Because the woman was a minor at the time, she was still able to take civil action against Cosby with claims for damages.<\/p>\n
The civil case was stayed when Cosby faced criminal charges in Pennsylvania in 2017. In that trial, Cosby was found guilty in 2018 of sexually abusing a woman in 2004. The court ruled that he had drugged and molested his victim at his home in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Cosby was sentenced to a minimum of three and a maximum of 10 years in prison. However, he was released from custody in June 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the verdict on formal grounds.<\/p>\n
A total of more than 60 women have accused Cosby of sexual abuse, but most of the cases are statute-barred. The California civil suit was one of the last legal actions against Cosby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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