Bill Cosby found liable of sexually assaulting teen and ordered to pay $500,000

Invoice Cosby should pay Judy Heath $500,000 after a jury in California discovered the 84-year-old liable of sexual assault

Disgraced Invoice Cosby has been ordered to pay half one million {dollars} in damages after a civil jury discovered him liable of a historic sexual assault.

The 84-year-old was sued by Judy Huth who stated he compelled her to carry out a intercourse act on him when she was 16 on the Playboy Mansion in 1975.

On Tuesday night, a Los Angeles jury awarded her $500,000 (£407,000).

Cosby was not within the courtroom when the message was learn out and hadn’t testified within the trial, in contrast to Huth.

He was first sued by Huth in 2014 for sexual battery and two different claims of assault when she was 16. The claims have been that he abused her on the Playboy Mansion within the mid-Nineteen Seventies.

The jury started deliberating final Thursday and the case is one which has been intently watched quite a lot of different girls who’ve accused Cosby of sexual misconduct.

It is the primary civil case accusing the multi-millionaire of sexual assault to have reached trial and the jury heard Huth’s account over the course of 10 days on the Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, the jury heard Huth’s account.

Huth informed the jury she and a pal, Donna Samuelson, had met
Cosby in a park in San Marino, California, the place he was making the movie titled Let’s Do It Once more.

The 2 girls testified the star, who was beforehand known as America’s dad, had invited them to his tennis membership, after which his home.

Again at his dwelling, they claimed he gave them alcohol and received them to observe him of their automobile to the Playboy Mansion.

Huth, now 64, described how in a bed room on the mansion Cosby compelled her to carry out a intercourse act on him.

He denied the allegations.

His legal professionals acknowledged he met with Huth on the Playboy Mansion, however in aggressive cross-examination, they described her account as “a whole and utter fabrication”.

They steered she had made the false claims and had coordinated with Samuelson in an bid to earn a living.

They requested why, by her personal account, she had stayed on the Playboy Mansion for hours after the alleged encounter, swimming within the pool and ordering cocktails.

In addition they questioned why she had not spoken about it within the months and years afterwards.

Huth was in a position to file the lawsuit as a result of, underneath California legislation, the interval for reporting an assault might be prolonged for adults who contend they have been victims of sexual abuse as kids however repressed the expertise.

In 2020, California legislation was amended to additional lengthen the statute of limitations for sexual assault filings in civil courtroom.
Cosby was launched from jail final yr after the Pennsylvania Supreme Courtroom overturned his 2018 conviction for sexual assault on a technicality.

Judges dominated a non-prosecution settlement made by a earlier prosecutor meant Cosby mustn’t have been charged within the case