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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums**Breaking** 3-10 years for Cosby
link to follow (AP alert)
Here from ABC affiliate:
https://abc7.com/entertainment/cosby-gets-3-10-years-in-prison-for-2004-sex-assault/4336535/
Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Monday, June 5, 2017. (Matt Rourke)
Updated 1 min ago
NORRISTOWN, Pa. --
His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, becoming the first celebrity of the #MeToo era to be sent to prison.
The punishment all but completed the dizzying, late-in-life fall for the comedian, former TV star and breaker of racial barriers.
"It is time for justice. Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The time has come," Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said. He quoted from victim Andrea Constand's own statement to the court, in which she said Cosby took her "beautiful, young spirit and crushed it."
Cosby declined the opportunity to address the court before the sentence came down.
The punishment came at the end of a two-day hearing at which the judge declared Cosby a "sexually violent predator" - a modern-day scarlet letter that subjects him to monthly counseling for the rest of his life and requires that neighbors and schools be notified of his whereabouts. --more at the link above
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**Breaking** 3-10 years for Cosby (Original Post)
hlthe2b
Sep 2018
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Pachamama
(16,887 posts)1. Justice is served
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)2. Justice!
A victory for women.
hlthe2b
(102,239 posts)3. I have to admit, given the Kavanaugh situtation, the timing could not be better.... n/t
winstars
(4,220 posts)4. Totally true.
Jarqui
(10,123 posts)5. Zero sympathy from me
Who know? Someday, he might get a roommate named Brett ...
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)6. At least he got some prison time.
I was afraid they'd send him home with an ankle bracelet.
Three years is a long time for an old man like him. He won't be a happy prisoner, I'm sure.
hlthe2b
(102,239 posts)7. Update: Judge denied bail pending appeal. Cosby sent to jail.