A girl who mentioned she was drugged and sexually assaulted by veteran US entertainer Bill Cosby was awarded greater than $19 million on Monday after a civil listening to in California.
Donna Motsinger mentioned she was working as a waitress greater than 50 years in the past when the performer started to focus on her.
The listening to in Santa Monica was instructed how the comic had initially come into the restaurant the place the now-84-year-old Motsinger labored.
One day when he picked her up in his limousine, Cosby gave her a glass of wine and what she thought was an aspirin.
She started slipping out and in of consciousness and the subsequent factor she knew she was waking up at house, carrying solely her underwear.
“She knew she had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby,” the go well with mentioned.
Attorneys mentioned Cosby, 88, didn’t keep in mind any sexual contact with Motsinger, however that any that had occurred had been consensual.
The jury took three days to ship its verdict, ordering Cosby to pay $19.3 million, a determine that might enhance in the event that they add punitive damages.
The case was heard in the identical courthouse the place a 2022 jury ordered Cosby to pay $500,000 in damages to Judy Huth after discovering that he had molested her in 1975 when she was simply 16 years previous.
The man previously often called “America’s Dad” was jailed in Pennsylvania for drugging and molesting a girl in a separate felony case in 2018, however was freed in 2021 when his conviction was overturned on a technicality.
Cosby was a towering determine in late twentieth century American well-liked tradition, together with for his starring position in “The Cosby Show,” which ran from 1984 to 1992.
Dozens of ladies have accused Cosby of being a calculating, serial predator who plied victims with sedatives and alcohol earlier than assaulting them over 4 a long time.
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