Bill Cosby found guilty

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woolfe9998

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There's no guarantee he would be sentenced to jail time. Given his age, his failing health etc... it's possible they won't put him in a prison. Whether I agree or not is another thing but it's entirely possible here.

I don't think he's going to get off with no time. It's too high profile a case for a judge to do that. Would invite too much controversy. OTOH, I just noticed that 10 years is the maximum on each count. Defendants rarely get the maximum. I could see him getting a lot less.
 

kage69

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Jul 17, 2003
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This is not about a celebrity, it's about a predator. He was joking about this shit when he was still doing standup back in the late 60s.

I remember the Spanish Fly bit from his stand up. I didn't think it was funny then either.

The one that really blew me away was that Cosby Show episode that ended with a family cookout, where Dr. Huxstable reveals his secret BBQ sauce ingredient. Whiskey...tango...foxtrot
 

sportage

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Watching the victims react to the verdict....
Shocking how molestation and abuse, even though so many long years ago, can still stir up memories of intense pain and raw emotion.
You could see in their face that the nightmare never goes away until justice is finally served.

Most people can not imagine anything ever happening within their own life that would or could ruin the rest of their life.
Molestation has got to be one of the most if not the most personally devastation act perpetrated upon an innocent.
Not only does the terror (for a lack of a better word) last a lifetime, the fact they had experienced such an horrific act will shape everything the victim does and might do in their future.
Their relationships.
Their ability to relate to others.
Their ability to trust those around them.
Their ability for an successful marriage.
Their ability as a parent.

It may cause the victim themselves to become violent in later years and twist their mental stability to such an extent that one might commit murder, beat their wife, abuse and molest their own children, torture innocent living creatures.
To lash out for no apparent reason.

When someone commits any horrid act, then should they be caught and brought to justice, too often a history of abuse and molestation in the family evolves.
Suggesting a possible motive for the perpetrator to have committed the act or acts of violence unto others.
The emerging pattern of abuse.
And with that we have to ask, how responsible was the perpetrator for the violence committed?
Was this act the result of a mind so damaged after itself having been molested and abused?

People wonder and ask, how could anyone ever commit such horrific acts unto others?
Well, what happened in the perpetrator past could be a clue if not the answer.
Not to give Cosby his free get out of jail card, but we have to wonder if Cosby himself might have been the victim as a kid?
What was Cosby's upbringing?
And if having been abused himself and should Cosby had experienced his perpetrator brought to justice, might that had not finally broken the pattern?
Given Cosby or any other perpetrator their peace in knowing justice was served?
Broken the pattern of abuse?

In short and despite Cosby's age and health, the victims of Bill Cosby need to experience this justice.
To have peace in knowing their accusations have finally been heard and believed.
And... to break the pattern they themselves may have repeated.
If Cosby was once a victim and he had experienced justice, might Cosby had never engaged in acts of violence?
 
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I'm glad I'm not a celebrity. Temptations abound.
how the fuck is drugging women and raping them while they're unconscious a temptation?

And I am pretty crushed by this, I worshiped cosby as a kid, had his albums, played them over and over and over, watched Fat Albert. Dude was a comedy god. Now, he's just slightly above a child molester, slightly.
 
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sportage

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Just realized Cosby does have a way out still remaining.
By getting himself elected president of the US of A.
Heck!
Then he'd have the entire republican congress behind him, the republican senate, and a truck load of evangelical christians.
Oh well. Just a thought, Bill.
 

shortylickens

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Just realized Cosby does have a way out still remaining.
By getting himself elected president of the US of A.
Heck!
Then he'd have the entire republican congress behind him, the republican senate, and a truck load of evangelical christians.
Oh well. Just a thought, Bill.

He's black.
He raped white women.

You think the trailer park voter base is gonna want him?
REALLY?
 

UberNeuman

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“I'm glad I'm not a celebrity. Temptations abound.”

lol.