#BillCosby rape bill heading to Governor Brown

Gov. Jerry Brown will decide whether to eliminate California’s 10-year time limit to bring rape and child molestation charges after several women were precluded from bringing cases against actor Bill Cosby.

We hope he signs the bill.

A measure the Senate approved unanimously Tuesday evening would apply only to crimes committed in the future.

It would not allow Cosby’s accusers to seek prosecution for sexual assault they say he committed decades ago.

However the bill sets the proper path for prosecutors.

Democratic Sen. Connie Leyva of Chino says victims should always have the opportunity to seek justice after such violent acts.

Civil rights groups and public offenders opposed SB813, saying the bill does not address the root causes of victims failing to report sex crimes.

They are wrong. Rapists deserve no such protection.

Source: San Jose Mercury News

Hey! Hey! Hey! Coz goes to trial

Bill Cosby is waiving his right to formal arraignment in a Pennsylvania sex assault case.

Cosby was ordered Tuesday to stand trial in the lone criminal case lodged amid dozens of accusations that he molested women. He was initially scheduled to be arraigned on July 20, at which time he could enter a formal plea.

Instead, he waived his right to appear at that proceeding. That sets the case on a trajectory for trial.

The 78-year-old actor faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of violating the accuser while she was impaired, unconscious or could not give consent.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Eeeewwww! Hugh Hefner sued for helping sex perv Bill Cosby

A one-time model who publicly accused Bill Cosby of sexually abusing her at the Playboy Mansion has now sued Hugh Hefner, alleging the Playboy founder was part of a conspiracy to ignore the entertainer’s behavior.

Chloe Goins contends that Hefner enabled Cosby’s alleged abuse, claiming that he knew or should have known that Cosby had drugged and sexually abused women, according to her lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Goins said she was sexually abused in a bedroom at the Playboy Mansion sometime in 2008, the lawsuit stated.

Cosby “over the years had a propensity for intoxicating or drugging young women and taking advantage of them sexually and against their will or while they were unconscious,” according to the complaint.

The 78-year-old comedian is currently facing a dozen lawsuits related to alleged sex acts with women, and criminal charges are pending in Pennsylvania. More than 50 women have come forward with allegations that Cosby sexually abused them during his more than four decades in entertainment.

Goins, who turned 26 Tuesday, alleged that the comedian spiked her drink while both were at a party held in the mansion, according to the lawsuit. Goins claimed she passed out and recalled Cosby sucking or licking her toes, then pulling up his pants before leaving the room, according to the suit.

Source: LA Times

Thanks to criminal perv @BillCosby, Cali may get a law to protect sex crime victims

A California bill prompted in part by prosecutors’ difficulty in pursuing sexual assault charges against Bill Cosby cleared its first legislative hurdle Tuesday, when it passed a committee that previously rejected efforts to allow prosecutions for crimes that victims say happened long ago.

The bill would eliminate the state’s 10-year statute of limitations on rape and child molestation charges.

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

Sex-crime charge could put Bill Cosby away for 10 years

If convicted, he could face 10 years in prison.

When rumors of sexual misconduct began to surface over the past few years, Bill Cosby issued strong denials and sued some of his accusers. His reputation was damaged, but he was never charged with a crime; most of the accusations fell outside the statute of limitations.

That changed on Wednesday, though, when the 78-year-old star walked unsteadily into court here and was charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a 31-year-old woman at his home in early 2004. The charges came shortly before time would have expired for a prosecution in Pennsylvania.

Source: Sex-crime charge marks a turning point in the Bill Cosby saga – LA Times

Bill Cosby charged with sexual assault

Bill Cosby was charged by Pennsylvania authorities Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman at his home 12 years ago — the first criminal charges brought against the comedian out of the torrent of allegations that destroyed his wholesome image as America’s Dad.

The case sets the stage for perhaps the biggest celebrity trial of the mobile-all-the-time era and could send the 78-year-old Cosby to prison in the twilight of his life and barrier-breaking career.

Source: Bill Cosby is charged with sexually assaulting woman in 2004 – LA Times

Bill Cosby’s pervert behavior seems limitless

The list of women accusing comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault grew Wednesday as two actresses and a former airline attendant added to the lurid allegations.

Standing before television cameras, Eden Tirl, who appeared on “The Cosby Show;” 1970s movie actress Linda Ridgeway and former American Airlines flight attendant Colleen Hughes joined three dozen other women who have accused Cosby of wrongdoing over several decades.

Tirl said she gained the courage to come forward because other women had. She said she was locked in a dressing room with Cosby during a taping of his show in 1989 when he assaulted her.

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Ridgeway, who appeared with the late actor Charles Bronson in the 1972 film “The Mechanic,” said Cosby assaulted her in an office as he interviewed her for a part.

“I felt Cosby’s left hand gently grab my long hair behind my head, his giant frame blocked the door,” she told reporters at a news conference with her attorney Gloria Allred. “His penis was out of his pants and he shoved it into my mouth.”

via ‘Cosby Show’ actress says Bill Cosby assaulted her in dressing room – LA Times.

Bill Cosby: Deposition reveals a lying, pervert, rapist

He was not above seducing a young model by showing interest in her father’s cancer. He promised other women his mentorship and career advice before pushing them for sex acts. And he tried to use financial sleight of hand to keep his wife from finding out about his serial philandering.

Bill Cosby admitted to all of this and more over four days of intense questioning 10 years ago at a Philadelphia hotel, where he defended himself in a deposition for a lawsuit filed by a young woman who accused him of drugging and molesting her.

Even as Mr. Cosby denied he was a sexual predator who assaulted many women, he presented himself in the deposition as an unapologetic, cavalier playboy, someone who used a combination of fame, apparent concern and powerful sedatives in a calculated pursuit of young women — a profile at odds with the popular image he so long enjoyed, that of father figure and public moralist.

via Bill Cosby, in Deposition, Said He Used Fame and Drugs to Seduce Women – The New York Times.

LAPD confirms Bill Cosby investigation

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck confirmed Wednesday the department has an “ongoing” investigation into Bill Cosby, but the probe is unrelated to a recently released deposition in which the comedian admitted obtaining drugs he intended to give to women with whom he wanted to have sex.

“We have an ongoing investigation that’s unrelated to the newest revelations,” Beck said.

Beck did not offer any other specifics of the probe.

via LAPD investigating Bill Cosby, Chief Charlie Beck confirms – Los Angeles Daily News.

Cosby trying to spike documents that reveal marriage, sex life, and prescription drug use issues

A lawyer for Bill Cosby argued Friday that it would be “terribly embarrassing” for the comedian if documents from a 2005 sex-assault lawsuit were unsealed.

Cosby is fighting efforts by The Associated Press to unseal motions from a lawsuit he settled with a former Temple University employee.

The lawsuit accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting the woman at Cosby’s home. The settlement is confidential.

Cosby’s lawyer argued that his client’s deposition could reveal details of Cosby’s marriage, sex life and prescription drug use.

“It would be terribly embarrassing for this material to come out,” lawyer George M. Gowen III argued.

He said the public should not have access to what Cosby was forced to say as he answered questions under oath from the accuser’s lawyer nearly a decade ago.

via Cosby lawyer: Unsealing court docs ‘terribly embarrassing’ – San Francisco Chronicle.