Bill Cosby sentencing this week

AP Associated Press
Bill Cosby is declared 'sexually violent predator'
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A judge declared Bill Cosby a "sexually violent predator" on Tuesday as a first step toward sentencing the 81-year-old comedian for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman over a decade ago.
The classification means that Cosby must undergo monthly counseling for the rest of his life and report quarterly to authorities. His name will appear on a sex-offender registry sent to neighbors, schools and victims.
Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill made the decision as he prepared to sentence Cosby for violating Temple University women's basketball administrator Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia estate in 2004.
The comic once known as America's Dad for his role as wise and understanding Dr. Cliff Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" in the 1980s faced anywhere from probation to 10 years in prison after being convicted in April in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
Prosecutors asked for five to 10 years behind bars. The defense requested house arrest, saying Cosby is too old and helpless to do time in prison. He is legally blind.
Cosby's lawyers had fought the "sexually violent predator" designation, arguing that Pennsylvania's sex-offender law is unconstitutional and that he is no threat to the public at his age. But O'Neill said prosecutors had met their burden of proof by "clear and convincing" evidence.
When the ruling came down, a woman in courtroom shot her fist into the air and whispered, "Yessss!"
Meanwhile, Constand said in a statement submitted to the court and released Tuesday that she has had to cope with years of anxiety and self-doubt that have left her "stuck in a holding pattern."
Constand, 45, said her training as a professional basketball player had led her to think she could handle anything, but "life as I knew it" ended on the night that Cosby knocked her out with pills and violated her.
Constand said she now lives alone with her two dogs and has trouble trusting people.
"When the sexual assault happened, I was a young woman brimming with confidence and looking forward to a future bright with possibilities," she wrote in her five-page statement.
"Now, almost 15 years later, I'm a middle-aged woman who's been stuck in a holding pattern for most of her adult life, unable to heal fully or to move forward."
She also wrote: "We may never know the full extent of his double life as a sexual predator but his decades-long reign of terror as a serial rapist is over."
In the years since Constand first went to authorities in 2005, more than 60 women have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct, though none of those claims have led to criminal charges.
The judge ruled on Cosby's sex-offender status after a defense psychologist, Timothy Foley, testified that the chances of the comedian committing another sex offense are "extraordinarily low" because he is old, legally blind and needs help getting around.
On Monday, a psychologist for the state testified that Cosby appears to have a mental disorder that gives him an uncontrollable urge to assault women.
Cosby was smiling and joking with his spokesman and sheriff's deputies as he settled into the courtroom Tuesday. On Day 1 of the sentencing, the comic laughed at times as the psychologist on the stand for the state portrayed him as a sexual predator with signs of a mental disorder.
Cameras were not allowed in the courtroom; they are generally banned in Pennsylvania.
Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt said the former TV star planned to remain silent when given the opportunity to address the court. Cosby did not testify at either of his two trials.
The proceedings took place as another extraordinary #MeToo drama continued to unfold on Capitol Hill, where Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces allegations of sexual misconduct from more than three decades ago.
The AP does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they come forward publicly, which Constand and other accusers have done.
Cosby became the first black actor to star in a prime-time TV show, "I Spy," in 1965. He remained a Hollywood A-lister for much of the next half-century.

Associated Press writer Claudia Lauer contributed to this report.

(Still no mention of jail time...And w
hat do they mean the chances of the comedian committing another sex offense are "extraordinarily low" because he is old, legally blind and needs help getting around.....that's BS....he'll find a way to continue maybe with his caretakers now that are not disabled like him, hmmm.....food for thought.)
 
Yes he should be jailed but for a guy like Cosby, the publicity and loss of prestige probably hurts more than incarceration will or would. In prison he would have been (or will be) treated like a hero. Considering his age, house arrest with an ankle bracelet would have been enough.
 

No doubt that he needed to be punished for what he did but I honestly thought that he'd somehow get off with just a ankle monitoring bracelet for 'X' years but I was wrong.......he was sentenced to a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 10 in prison.

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I just saw...Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 yrs.
No bail, he was taken into custody immediately.

:clap:

(saw a pic of him smiling... obviously an act)
 
Looks like 3-10 for the Coz. NO bail while he goes through the game of appeals, unless the appeals court allows it.
 
Looks like 3-10 for the Coz. NO bail while he goes through the game of appeals, unless the appeals court allows it.

I've seen some people complaining that he'll be sent to a resort facility.
911 - you're in Pennsylvania. Do you know of any prison where YOU would want to spend one day/night?

Just heard Cosby will go to same prison as Jerry Sandusky.
 
I don't think that he should go to prison. He's too old. His "crime" wasn't that bad compared to the a$$holes who are running the streets today.

It's hard to tell what the court will decide in his case.
Crime wasn't that bad????Drugging and raping lots of women!!!!! Yes to both questions. He was taken immediately to prison as he should be !!!
 
I've seen some people complaining that he'll be sent to a resort facility.
911 - you're in Pennsylvania. Do you know of any prison where YOU would want to spend one day/night?

Just heard Cosby will go to same prison as Jerry Sandusky.

Well, if he went to Somerset, which is a medium security prison, he will be OK. Bill is in his 80’s, so he’s no threat to anyone and I doubt if he will be messed with, but in prison, no one ever knows what to expect.

If I was going to be sent to prison here in PA, I would prefer the Federal prison at Alleneood, which has three sections; maximum security, medium and low. I would prefer to go to the low security section. It’s mostly white collar criminals. They have tennis courts and a short golf course on campus, plus other goodies. If not there, then the state prison at Lackawanna.

Personally, I have escorted three prisoners to Greene Prison and sat their butts on death row. The one fellow escaped a few weeks later, but was quickly apprehended. The last prisoner that I took there was a fellow named Kevin Dowling. He killed a lady that he tried to rape, but was scared off by the UPS driver inside her art shop before he was able to complete the act. She had no idea who the man was, but she recognized his voice when she went to pay for his gas. So, he was picked up and jailed, but made bail. The day before he was to appear in court, he went back to the art store and killed her.
 
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Bill Cosby will be facing his pudding-peddling past this week in the slammer, 'cause he's being served the custard dessert as part of his first meal behind bars ... TMZ has learned.
Sources at Montgomery County Correctional Facility -- where Cosby is being held before he eventually gets transferred to prison -- tell us inmates will be eating good Tuesday night with a nice helping of a chicken patty with gravy, mixed veggies, mashed potatoes, iced tea mix ... and, of course, vanilla pudding for dessert.

http://www.tmz.com/2018/09/25/bill-cosby-first-meal-montgomery-county-jail-pudding-dessert/
 
The judge called him a "sexually violent predator" which rings a warning bell in my head.
What was it that he wanted to do that he needed the women to be incapable of resisting?
Consider it a rhetorical question. I do not really wish to know the answer.
 
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Bill Cosby will be facing his pudding-peddling past this week in the slammer, 'cause he's being served the custard dessert as part of his first meal behind bars ... TMZ has learned.
Sources at Montgomery County Correctional Facility -- where Cosby is being held before he eventually gets transferred to prison -- tell us inmates will be eating good Tuesday night with a nice helping of a chicken patty with gravy, mixed veggies, mashed potatoes, iced tea mix ... and, of course, vanilla pudding for dessert.

http://www.tmz.com/2018/09/25/bill-cosby-first-meal-montgomery-county-jail-pudding-dessert/

Oh he'll get special treatment...his family will make sure of that.....money talks....
 
I think it's ironic that a black male is being sent to prison for sexual assaults on mostly white women; but will his wealth and popularity keep him from serving only a "token" sentence? Will he be out by Xmas?
 
I think it's ironic that a black male is being sent to prison for sexual assaults on mostly white women; but will his wealth and popularity keep him from serving only a "token" sentence? Will he be out by Xmas?

I don't understand your racial insinuation. What is your point?
No, he will not be out by Christmas of this year, or next year, or the year after that...unless his conviction is overturned.
 
I just saw...Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 yrs.
No bail, he was taken into custody immediately.

:clap:

(saw a pic of him smiling... obviously an act)

Well I sure blew that one, on both counts

Guess I’m too swayed by what I thought wunna my heroes was

...still not over it
 
So, by Rgp’s reasoning, I was not a victim of sexual assault, but a willing participant when I accepted the invitation my trusted Professor/mentor extended to me re a friendly celebratory meal and discussion of completion of my thesis? His wife supposedly was only out shopping, expected back any moment. I found out later she was out of town. He caught me by

surprise, overpowered me, and raped me several times. He was 6’4, I am 5’2”. Told me flat out he had planned this for weeks, if I said a word to anyone, I would be blacklisted. He was the chair of the psychology dept in Canada’s most exclusive university. Hugely respected. My career would have been trashed before it even began. I kept quiet.
 


There were no victims....only willing participants . They [the women] were looking / hoping to gain from his influence. They were all adults, and willing to do 'whatever' to get it....it just did not go as they had hoped.

It's funny that so,so many women before the me-too movement willingly looked past the Bill Clinton accusations by so many women, Paula Jones,Kathleen Willey, and of course Monica , and supported him openly. Even being instrumental in his second election win. It was said at the time that something like 43% of women voted for him.

But now, fast forward 25 +/- years, and any man that ever caressed a woman's booty is the scourge of the earth.....without proof I might add.
 


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