Bill Cosby, 81, was handed a three-to-ten-year prison sentence “for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004. He will almost certainly go straight to prison today. Before sentencing, Judge Steven T. O’Neill upheld a state board’s finding that Mr. Cosby is a sexually violent predator. The court released Constand’s full victim impact statement, in which she wrote that Cosby “took my beautiful, healthy young spirit and crushed it.” The two jurors who refused to convict Dr. Cliff Huxtable during deliberations over the first trial are presumably feeling disheartened.

A statement from Joan Tarshis, whose account of her own Cosby episode was posted on Hollywood Elsewhere on 11.16.14: “I’m very happy about the verdict.”

September 25, 2018by Jeffrey Wells20 Comments