US Court Declares Bill Cosby Guilty Of Sexual Assault On 16-year-old Girl

There is no hidden sin, whatever bad thing you do now will always come back to hunt you irrespective of how you try to conceal it, you can never go unnoticed or unharmed.

Bill Cosby has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1975, with the jury in the civil trial ruling in favor of Judy Huth, now 64.

Most of the jurors found that Cosby intentionally had harmful sexual conduct with Huth, that they believed she was under the age of 18, and that her behavior was motivated by unnatural or unusual sexual interest in a minor. Guardian, Huth has been awarded $500,000 in compensation, significantly less than the $8 million in punitive damages sought by Huth’s attorney, Gloria Allred.

Huth filed the lawsuit in 2014, initially saying the incident happened in 1974 when she was 15, but later said she made a mistake about the year and amended her claim. In legal filings and court testimony, Huth said that he and a friend had met Cosby, then aged 37, at a park, and had been invited by him to the Playboy Mansion.

She testified that Cosby assaulted her, forcing her to perform sexual acts without her consent. Cosby was not physically present at the trial but denied the allegations in a video statement shown to jurors, claiming he did not remember Huth.

The disgraced actor and comedian, aged 84, maintained his innocence, saying the alleged sexual abuse could not have taken place as he would not have had sexual contact with anyone under the age of 18. Following Huth’s legal victory, Andrew Wyatt, a spokesman for Cosby, said the actor’s team plans to appeal the decision.

Speaking to the press, Huth’s attorney, Allred, praised her client’s “courage and many sacrifices to win justice in this case”, saying she and her team were “honored” to represent the woman. was.

“I want to thank all the women who have spoken out over the years and refused to remain silent against the injustice and sexual abuse perpetrated by powerful men,” Allred said. “We are proud of our victories against Ms. Huth and Bill Cosby.”

Earlier this month, during Huth’s trial, a woman testified that she was forcibly stopped and kissed by Cosby during the making of the 1975 film ‘let’s do it again’ when she was 14 years old. The woman had nothing to do with the trial directly.

The end of the trial marks one of the last remaining legal claims against Cosby, who has been accused of sexual assault by more than 60 women. In 2018, he was jailed for drug and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004, but his conviction was overturned on a legal technicality almost a year ago.