Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975, jurors determined on Tuesday after a nearly month-long civil trial. Jurors found that Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with Huth, whom he reasonably believed was under 18, and that his conduct was driven by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor. The decision brings to a close one of the final remaining legal claims against 84-year-old Cosby, whom more than 50 women have accused of sexual assault over nearly five decades. In court filings and in testimony at the trial, Huth said she and a friend met Cosby at a park, and that the actor later took her and her friend to the Playboy Mansion. “Once again, a jury has found that Bill Cosby committed sexual assault.
Source: The Guardian June 22, 2022 18:58 UTC