
A Pennsylvania judge ruled Bill Cosby as a “sexually violent predator,” which means that he will “have to undergo lifetime counseling and report regularly to authorities.”
That’s not all. The verdict is in. Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison.
BREAKING: Bill Cosby, 81, is sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for 2004 sexual assault.
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 25, 2018
His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, becoming the first celebrity of the #MeToo era to be sent to prison.
The punishment all but completed the dizzying, late-in-life fall for the comedian, former TV star and breaker of racial barriers.
“It is time for justice. Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The time has come,” Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill said. He quoted from victim Andrea Constand’s own statement to the court, in which she said Cosby took her “beautiful, young spirit and crushed it.”
“The time has come.” It’s happening. Justice has arrived.