A mother in Florida has been found guilty in the case of her son’s death from malnutrition — after admitting to feeding her children an all-raw vegetable and fruit diet.
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Bill Cosby to pay $500,000 to a woman who alleged that he molested her at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a 16-year-girl, but did not find punitive damages.The verdict ruled in Huth’s favor, though Cosby’s team was pleased with the outcome. When the verdict was read with no punitive damages found, Cosby’s spokesperson smiled in the gallery and his team of lawyers was gleeful, as they exited the courtroom.Judy Huth, now 64, accused Cosby of luring her and a friend to the mansion a few days after meeting them in a park.
She alleged that Cosby got her alone in a bedroom, pulled down his sweatpants and then grabbed her hand and used it to masturbate himself, forcing her into a sexual act. On Tuesday, the jury found that Cosby did intend to cause a harmful or offensive contact with Huth and that a “sexually offensive contact” resulted, while also finding that Hugh was harmed by Cosby’s conduct.
The jury concluded that any “normal person, without hesitation” would have been “disturbed, irritated, offended or injured” by Cosby’s conduct. Nine jurors voted they agreed that Cosby’s conduct was motivated by an “unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor,” while three jurors did not agree.The trial, which was held at the Santa Monica Courthouse centered on testimony of Huth and her friend, Donna Samuelson, as well as two other women who alleged that Cosby had also sexually assaulted them in 1975.The verdict came down after nearly three days of deliberations, and the jury having to restart those deliberations from scratch when a juror was excused from the case, due to a scheduling conflict.
The jury repeatedly asked questions, and was stuck on whether the case rose to the level of triggering punitive damages. Amid
.A mother in Florida has been found guilty in the case of her son’s death from malnutrition — after admitting to feeding her children an all-raw vegetable and fruit diet.
sent home from prison, and new video from that day shows the disgraced comedian detailing how he found out about his release. During his ride home from SCI Phoenix, Cosby's publicist recorded their conversation. "It's starting to hit," Cosby told Andrew V. Wyatt in the newly released one-year-old video.
ruled a prosecutor’s decades-old agreement should have shielded him from criminal charges.“Well, it’s starting to hit,” Cosby said when asked how he felt, video shows. “I was in the bed, in the cot, and they opened the door — because it’s 1 o’clock — and about four or five guys [were] yelling, ‘Bill, get out, you’re going home.’”Cosby then quipped: “I said, what is it, Juneteenth?”The fallen funnyman said other inmates, including murderers, rapists, bank robbers and “wife beaters,” all applauded as he was led out.Wyatt later he “couldn’t believe” that a judge overturned his conviction of three counts of aggravated indecent assault.
Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentAfter a civil jury found that Bill Cosby sexually abused Judy Huth in 1975 when she was a 16-year-old minor, Cosby’s team is calling the outcome an “astonishing victory,” yet pledging to appeal the $500,000 verdict.“Yesterday actor and comedian Bill Cosby was awarded an astonishing victory by jurors in a civil trial brought by Judy Huth,” reads a statement from Cosby’s spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt. “The jurors decided to grant Judy Huth with a $500,000 verdict but voted 9-3 in favor of not rewarding Ms.
Content warning: This story contains discussion and description of claims of sexual assault.Bill Cosby has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1975, with jurors in the civil trial ruling in favour of Judy Huth, now aged 64.A majority of jurors found that Cosby had intentionally caused harmful sexual conduct with Huth, that he reasonably believed she was under the age of 18, and that his behaviour was motivated by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor, per The Guardian. Huth has been awarded $500,000 in compensation, considerably less than the $8million in punitive damages Huth’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, had sought.Huth filed the lawsuit back in 2014, initially saying the incident took place in 1974 when she was 15, but later saying she had made a mistake about the year and amending her claim.
Bill Cosby has been found civilly liable of sexually assaulting Judy Huth while she was underage at the Playboy Mansion 1975, Us Weekly can confirm.
in favor of plaintiff Judy Huth, now 64, and awarded her $500,000, the reports.The decision comes after several days of deliberations by the jury, who had to address several questions presented in the lawsuit and deliver numerous verdicts before deciding on punitive damages.The verdict comes one week after Huth took the witness stand last Tuesday in a Santa Monica, California courtroom and testified that Cosby sexually assaulted her in the so-called «blue room» at the famed mansion.Huth claimed Cosby tried to put his hand down her pants. According to The Associated Press, the comedian's also accused of exposing himself before allegedly forcing Huth to pleasure him sexually on a bed in a room that's said to have been adjacent to the game room.The disgraced comedian — whose 2018 sexual assault conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court — has denied the allegations.
Jurors at a civil trial found Tuesday that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.
Bill Cosby has been found guilty by a jury in a civil trial of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.On Tuesday, the jury delivered their verdict in favor of plaintiff Judy Huth, now 64, and awarded her $500,000, the reports.The decision comes after several days of deliberations by the jury, who had to address several questions presented in the lawsuit and deliver numerous verdicts before deciding on punitive damages.The verdict comes one week after Huth took the witness stand last Tuesday in a Santa Monica, California courtroom and testified that Cosby sexually assaulted her in the so-called «blue room» at the famed mansion.Huth claimed Cosby tried to put his hand down her pants. According to The Associated Press, the comedian's also accused of exposing himself before allegedly forcing Huth to pleasure him sexually on a bed in a room that's said to have been adjacent to the game room.The disgraced comedian — whose 2018 sexual assault conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court — has denied the allegations.
Jurors found Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl in the civil suit filed by Judith Huth, who accused the former comedian of sexual assault at the Playboy mansion in 1975 when she was a teen. Huth, now 64, told Fox News Digital shortly after the trial: "Victory is right. Love it.
Bill Cosby is guilty of sexual assault in a civil trial brought against him by Judy Huth.The jury awarded now 64 year-old Huth $500,000 in addition to ruling in her favor. Huth alleged that Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was 15 years old. Huth claimed that Cosby brought her to the Playboy Mansion in 1974, instructing her to say that she was 19 if anyone asked.
Bill Cosby has been found guilty.
Bill Cosby could know very soon if a California jury has found him guilty of sexual abuse.
The Associated Press detailed the strange technicality on Saturday, in which jurors — after two days of deliberations — reached answers on nearly all nine of the questions put before them, save for one. But before the last decision could be reached on Friday, deputies in the Santa Monica Courthouse required the judge to clear the courtroom by 4:30 p.m.
sexual abuse allegations against Bill Cosby will have to start from scratch on Monday.By the end of the court day Friday, the Los Angeles County jury had come to agreement on whether Cosby had sexually assaulted plaintiff Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 in 1975, and whether Huth deserved any damages. In all, they had answered eight of nine questions on their verdict form, all but one that asked whether Cosby acted in a way that should require punitive damages.Judge Craig Karlan, who had promised one juror when she agreed to serve that she could leave after Friday for a prior commitment, decided over the objections of Cosby's attorneys to accept and read the verdict on the questions the jury had answered.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe jury in Bill Cosby’s civil trial in nearly reached a verdict on Friday afternoon, but will instead have to start their deliberations over again on Monday morning.The unusual twist came at the end of the second day of deliberations in Santa Monica Superior Court. The plaintiff, Judy Huth, has sued Cosby for allegedly molesting her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16, in 1975.The jurors were asked to answer nine questions, including whether Cosby sexually molested Huth, whether she was under 18, whether Cosby had reason to know that, and how much damages she should be awarded.
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterJurors in the civil trial of Bill Cosby asked a series of questions on Thursday afternoon, but had yet to reach a verdict by the end of the day, and will return on Friday morning.Cosby is facing a lawsuit from Judy Huth, a 64-year-old woman who alleges that he molested her after luring her to the Playboy Mansion in 1975, when she was 16.Huth is suing under a California law that extends the statute of limitations for claims of childhood sex abuse, allowing accusers to pursue their lawsuits well into adulthood. One aspect of that law, allowing a three-year window for plaintiffs to pursue older claims, is being challenged by several dioceses of the Catholic Church in California.The jurors’ questions suggested they had considered many of the issues they were asked to decide.