Jury Finds Bill Cosby Sexually Assaulted 16-Year-Old in 1975
Bill Cosby was convicted Tuesday in a civil trial in which he was accused of assaulting a 16-year-old girl in 1975. The accuser, Judy Huth, was awarded $500,000 in damages, according to The New York Times . According to…
Bill Cosby was convicted Tuesday in a civil trial in which he was accused of assaulting a 16-year-old girl in 1975.
The accuser, Judy Huth, was awarded $500,000 in damages, according to The New York Times.
According to The Associated Press, the jurors decided that Cosby “intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with Huth, that he reasonably believed she was under 18, and that his conduct was driven by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor.”
Huth sued Cosby in 2014 for sexual battery, Deadline reported. She claims he assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 16.
Huth and a friend, Donna Samuelson, testified that they were invited by Cosby to his tennis club and later to a house where he was staying, where they drank alcohol. He then had them follow him in their car to the Playboy Mansion, they said.
“Are you girls ready for your surprise?” Cosby said, according to Huth. “I had no clue what it could be,” Huth testified.
She said she went to a bathroom and came out to find Cosby waiting for her on a bed.
“He patted the seat next to him,” she said. “I sat down. He tried to lean me back, he tried to kiss me, he tried to put his hands underneath my belly button where my high-waisted pants were.”