Bill Cosby Found Guilty On Three Counts of Sexual Assault, Climaxing Years Of Victim Stories
/ Anne Enke
Bill Cosby Found Guilty On Three Counts of Sexual Assault, Climaxing Years Of Victim Stories
A Norristown, Pa jury found Bill Cosby, one of the world's best-known entertainers, guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his nearby home 14 years ago. The jury reached its verdict on its second day of deliberations at the Montgomery County Courthouse, convicting Cosby of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand.
"The three counts — penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious, and penetration after administering an intoxicant — are felonies, each punishable by up to 10 years in state prison, though the sentences could be served concurrently", writes The New York Times.
The guilty verdicts are serious -- penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious, and penetration after administering an intoxicant -- are felonies, each carrying a prison sentence of up to 10 years. The sentences could be served concurrently.
An earlier trial in the summer of 2017 ended with a deadlocked jury that deliberated for six days.
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In an extraordinary piece of journalism, New York Magazine’s cover story addresses the stories of 35 individual women, ages 20s-80s, who claim that they were sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby.` Six women are also videotaped. This is the first time that all of the Cosby accusers willing to come forward have told their stories individually but in one centralized place.
Justice Dept Redefined Rape in 2012
It’s generally believed that this female gathering never would have happened without social media and a broadening of the definition of rape, as actioned by the Justice Department in 2012. The act of rape — previously considered only as a violent act of one person — a man — forcing himself sexually on another person — a woman — has been redefined and expanded by gender (women can rape men; men rape other men) and by sexual actions beyond vaginal penetration.
In the words of Susan B. Carbon of the Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women, the redefinition of rape meant that “it’s rape even if you’re a man. It’s rape even if you are raped with an object and even if you were too drunk to consent.”
Too Drugged And/Or Drunk To Consent?
Although the criminal statute of limitations has expired on most of the alleged sexual assault incidents among the 35 women interviewed by New York Magazine, they are seeking justice in the court of public opinion. Note that some of the women have filed civil cases against Cosby with multiple lawyers representing them.
Cosby’s recent publicized 2005 admission that he procured at least seven prescriptions for quaaludes for the purpose of having sex with other women not his wife. caused four of the 35 women to come forward just last week.
“The group of women Cosby allegedly assaulted functions almost as a longitudinal study — both for how an individual woman, on her own, deals with such trauma over the decades and for how the culture at large has grappled with rape over the same time period,” writes New York Magazine. “In the ’60s, when the first alleged assault by Cosby occurred, rape was considered to be something violent committed by a stranger … But among younger women, and particularly online, there is a strong sense now that speaking up is the only thing to do, that a woman claiming her own victimhood is more powerful than any other weapon in the fight against rape.”
One Cosby accuser whose story isn’t told in the New York Magazine collection is Andrea Constand, the Temple University administrator and former college basketball player in Philadelphia, who reached a settlement with Cosby. It was the deposition in her case that was released last week by the New York Times.
In the past week Spelman College, a historically black women’s college in Atlanta, cut all ties to Cosby. The foundation was established by Cosby’s wife, Camille, in honor of her mother, as the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported; two of the comedian’s daughters attended Spelman.
In Philadelphia, a mural featuring Bill Cosby has been painted over.
Age 15 Molestation Case Moves Forward
As embarrassing as the Spelman decision is, Cosby’s attorneys lost a significant court battle in California last week when the state Supreme Court declined to hear a petition that would have overturned a case of a now 50’s woman who claims that Cosby molested her at age 15.
Charges of molesting young girls takes the Cosby allegations into new and sickening allegations.
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Navy investigating taping of female officers in submarine showers The Florida Times Union
Lt. leslie Hubbell has confirmed that a joint command and Navy Criminal investigation has commenced to investigate claims that a 2nd class petty officer secretly videotaped women officers showering aboard the USS Wyoming, a submarine ported at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base.
Ballistic missile subs typically carry a crew of up to 15 officers and 140 enlisted personnel. Officers share bathing facililities with a sign system indicating when a woman is using the facilities.
The Navy Times reports that videos are believed to show at least three female officers while showering or undressed. It possible that men were also videotaped, but their videos were apparently not distributed.
A retired female supply officer of lieutenant rank, formerly tasked with acting as a mentor to female serving on the submarines “recalled her first day on a sub when a young male sailor came into her stateroom and asked, “Where are the females?”
“I looked at him and said, ‘All right, let’s get one thing straight: They’re not females, they’re junior officers on this boat, they’re division officers, and you will address them as Ensign So-and-So, and you can tell everybody else on the boat,’ ” she said.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet the U.S. Navy’s first contingent of women submariners to be assigned to the Navy’s operational submarine force, in the Blue Room of the White House, May 28, 2012. The 24 women were accepted into the Navy’s nuclear submarine program after completing an intensive training program and serve on ballistic and guided missile submarines throughout the Navy. Also attending were ADM Mark Ferguson, left, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, right. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) May 28, 2012. Navy Revokes Bill Cosby’s Honorary Title WSJ
The US Navy has revoked comedian Bill Cosby’s honorary title as chief petty officer, as sexual abuse and sexual assault charges — including numerous charges of rape — mount against the 77-year-old comedian.
Navy officials said they were stripping Mr. Cosby of the honorary title because the allegations “conflict with the Navy’s core values of honor, courage and commitment.”
The decision comes the day after three of Cosby’s accusers have launched a drive with lawyer Gloria Allred, who told the comedian to create a $100 million fund for his victims or face new lawsuits.
Mr. Cosby was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1960 as a 3rd Class Petty Officer after serving four years as a hospital corpsman. In 2011, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus made Mr. Cosby an honorary chief petty officer.
Comedian Bill Cosby, center, is recognized as an Honorary Chief Petty Officer by Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Rick West, left, and Navy Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, in 2011. Associated Press
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