Bill Cosby Will Go To Prison

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to a sentence of 3 to 10 years in prison in a Pennsylvania state prison after being found guilty of sexual assault last April for drugging and raping a woman 14 years ago, after announcing his ruling, the judge Steven O'Neill revoked the bail of the creator of The Cosby Show and ordered his immediate imprisonment, so the comedian was escorted out of court with handcuffs on his wrists. that he was not allowed to treat Cosby differently because of who he was or had been and echoed the words spoken by the actor's victim, Andrea Constand, who at the time of the attack was 30 years old. "As she said, Mr. Cosby, you took her beautiful, young and healthy spirit and crushed it," said the judge, who instructed that the condemned be classified as a "violent sexual predator."

O'Neill said the evidence that the comedian had drugged and raped Constand at his home in 2004 was "overwhelming". He therefore addressed the victim, who was present, to explain that he understood the negative impact it had had In her life the events for which Cosby has been sentenced to prison, Constand is just one of a dozen women who have accused Cosby of sexually assaulting them over the years, but his case was the only one in which the The crime had not been prescribed and therefore the businessman and actor could also be tried. A spokesman for the actor, Andrew Wyatt, reiterated his client's conviction that the accusations against him are "lies" and assured that he had been the victim of the "most racist and sexist trial in the history of the United States." Today's conviction acquires greater relevance not only for consummation the fall from grace of what was one of the most beloved and powerful personalities in the entertainment world in the United States, but also because it is the conclusion of a judicial process of this nature in the #MeToo era.