For Bill Cosby And Chief Accuser, A Day Of Reckoning Arrives
By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MICHAEL R. SISAK
September 25, 2018 8:23 am
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby faces a good chance of being sent to prison Tuesday, when a judge is expected to sentence the TV star who was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004.
Cosby, 81, will have the opportunity to speak in court before he is sentenced.
The once-beloved actor and comedian, dubbed “America’s Dad” for his role as Dr. Cliff Huxtable on the top-ranked, 1980s-era “Cosby Show,” faces anything from probation to 10 years in prison for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand, a Temple University basketball administrator, at his estate near Philadelphia. She went to police a year later, only to have a prosecutor turn down the case.
In the years since Constand first went to police in 2005, more than 60 women have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct, though none of those claims have led to criminal charges.
Cosby is the first celebrity of the #MeToo era to go on trial, and the first to be convicted.
It’s a reckoning that accusers and prosecutors say has been decades in the making.
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