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WhoIsNumberNone

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Thu Dec 31, 2015, 12:17 PM Dec 2015

TYT: Bill Cosby CHARGED With Sexual Assault



Comedian Bill Cosby has been charged with sexual assault. Authorities in Pennsylvania are charging Cosby based on an incident that occurred in 2004, and the statute of limitations has not yet expired. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

Will Cosby go to jail? Let us know in the comments below.

Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/business/media/bill-cosby-charged-in-sexual-assault-case.html

“The authorities in Pennsylvania announced criminal charges on Wednesday against the entertainer Bill Cosby stemming from a woman’s accusation that he drugged and sexually abused her at his home in a suburb north of Philadelphia, in 2004.

Kevin Steele, Montgomery County’s district attorney-elect, said that Mr. Cosby faces a felony charge of aggravated indecent assault. He said the investigation involved a “relationship” between Mr. Cosby and the woman, Andrea Constand, that came about from her work with the basketball team at Temple University, Mr. Cosby’s alma mater.

Mr. Cosby became a “mentor” and “friend” to Ms. Constand, Mr. Steele said, and at one point she went to his home in Cheltenham Township. According to the accusations, Mr. Cosby urged her to take pills and drink wine until she was unable to move, after which he committed the assault.”

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TYT: Bill Cosby CHARGED With Sexual Assault (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2015 OP
Well, durn... chervilant Dec 2015 #1

chervilant

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Thu Dec 31, 2015, 03:08 PM
Dec 2015

I have family by marriage who have African (predominately), Indigenous and European bloodlines (my bio-family's African and Indigeonous blood is too far back to be evident by our skin color or features). Some of this family by marriage are convinced that Cosby did not sexually assault any women, because "if they were drugged, how come they remember so much?" Cosby is such an icon to these family members; they cannot accept that he's a predator.

It's difficult indeed to reconcile Cosby's onscreen persona with the predator he has been throughout his career. His recently released deposition--chilling in its entirety--is all the proof I need to understand that Cosby used his power and his ego to accommodate his predatory urges--without consent from his victims.

He is a rapist. And, he brought this upon himself.

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