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A civilian assemblage successful California recovered Monday that Bill Cosby was liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a pistillate successful 1972 and awarded her $19.25 million.
After a astir two-week proceedings successful Santa Monica, jurors recovered the 88-year-old Cosby liable for the intersexual artillery and battle of Donna Motsinger.
Cosby's attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, said successful an email that they are disappointed and afloat mean to entreaty the verdict.
The determination came astir 5 years after Cosby was freed from prison in Pennsylvania erstwhile the authorities Supreme Court threw retired a transgression condemnation based connected akin allegations.
Motsinger had been a server astatine a edifice successful Sausalito adjacent San Francisco who said successful her lawsuit, filed successful 2023, that Cosby had invited her to his stand-up drama amusement astatine a theatre successful adjacent San Carlos. Both were successful their 30s astatine the time. She said Cosby gave her vino and 2 pills that she believed were aspirin, and that she was going successful and retired of consciousness arsenic 2 men enactment her successful a limousine.
"She woke up successful her location with each her apparel off, but her underwear connected – nary top, nary bra, and nary pants," the suit said. "She knew she had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby."
In tribunal filings, Cosby's lawyers argued that the allegations rested astir wholly connected speculation and assumption, saying Motsinger "freely admits that she has nary thought what happened."
Jurors awarded Motsinger $17.5 cardinal successful past damages and $1.75 cardinal for aboriginal damages, including "mental suffering, nonaccomplishment of enjoyment of life, inconvenience, grief, anxiety, humiliation, and affectional distress." They deliberated for conscionable implicit a day.
They tin grant adjacent much successful a punitive damages signifier of the proceedings that starts aboriginal Monday.
Cosby did not attest astatine the trial, whose witnesses included Andrea Constand, the Temple University sports head helium was convicted of sexually assaulting successful a Pennsylvania transgression tribunal successful 2018. The state's Supreme Court threw retired the verdict and Cosby was freed from situation aft serving astir 3 years of a three- to 10-year sentence.
Motsinger archetypal made her allegations anonymously successful a 2005 suit filed by Constand.
The Associated Press does not typically sanction radical who accidental they person been sexually abused unless they travel guardant publically and consent to beryllium named, arsenic Constand and Motsinger have.
In 2022, a assemblage successful Santa Monica awarded $500,000 to a pistillate who said Cosby sexually assaulted her astatine the Playboy Mansion erstwhile she was a teen successful 1975.
Motsinger's suit echoed allegations of rape, intersexual battle and intersexual harassment made by astatine slightest 60 women against Cosby, each of which helium has denied.
The erstwhile stand-up drama and tv superstar erstwhile wide known arsenic "America's Dad" became the archetypal personage tried and convicted successful the #MeToo epoch earlier his condemnation was permanently thrown retired erstwhile an appeals tribunal recovered helium gave incriminating grounds successful a deposition lone aft believing helium had immunity from prosecution.
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