She has the right to rant against what she feels is unfair but she then opens herself up to the opinions of others, and thus, they have flowed. What would have been far more dignified, in my opinion, was to keep her thoughts to herself.
I missed where Bill Cosby was convicted??? or is it just here on CC with evidence printed in the media. Mistrial means that at least one person who actual heard the real evidence didn’t believe he was guilty. Let’s let the courts do there job and let Camille say what she wants.
@cu123 no one here is trying to stifle Mrs Cosby’s freedom of speech.
Also, we are allowed to have opinions on his guilt. It is only the criminal system that must presume innocence.
Unfortunately the court of public opinion can ruin people, it has it’s effects and most are negative.
@CU123 you are right that he was not convicted in the court system. He was not acquitted either. His wife is free to make any statement she wants - I am not stopping her, nor am I aware that anyone else is trying to silence her.
He admitted under oath in a deposition that he procured drugs for the purpose of giving to women and having sexual contact with them.
My own personal life experience tells me that the statement under oath, along with the fact that 60 women came forward with similar stories of unwanted sexual advances and/or drugging means that Bill Cosby more likely than not is a sexual predator.
Yeah, I don’t have any problem with the court of public opinion ruining him. He admitted to drugging and raping women. That’s all I really need to know about him to be honest.
I repeat: he admitted to drugging and raping women. This isn’t like we’re not sure whether or not he did.
Not to split legal hairs but he never admitted that women did not agree to take the downers…never said that he forced them on women and it was a different time and place back then especially with downers and quaaludes especially were easy to get and a sleeping pill…ludes were in my high school before pot …although a few women say they were slipped drugs in drinks so I am not sure why they picked this particular case to try. Perhaps Camille is right and it was politically motivated.
I thought his admission was carefully worded to say that he got drugs to give to women he wanted to have sex with, rather than saying he drugged them. I remember one of the models did say he drugged her drink but she managed to notice the effects and got away from him. Some on the others said he handed them pills, which they took. In the 60s-70s-80s – what did they think the pill was?
They picked this particular case to try because it was the only one allowed under the statute of limitations.
I honestly don’t understand how anyone can continue to defend this man and what he admittedly did for years to dozens of women. It wasn’t “a different time back then” for the vast majority of men.
Interesting story in this month’s Philadelphia magazine. Recounts other victims from decades ago: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/06/03/bill-cosby-trial-origins/
I don’t know how anyone could think 60 women would make up a story about him.
He is a sick individual. I often wonder if he had some fetish about having sex with incoherent women? He could’ve gotten any number of women to willingly have sex with him so why drug them.
Rape is about power and control. They’re easier to control if they’re drugged.
@momofthreeboys is right. As far as I can tell, all of Cosby’s statements were carefully crafted to be consistent with his story that the women took the drugs voluntarily. (Which, of course, in the 70s-90s, was not exactly uncommon.) His statement in this case was that the pills he gave Constand were not quaaludes (which is what he had purchased to give to women in the past), but benadryl, because she was having an allergic reaction to something.
A reasonable person could certainly conclude that he had a history of drugging women and engaging in sexual contact with them without their consent, but he never got anywhere near admitting that in the deposition the jury heard read to them (several times). I’m not certain exactly how much the jury heard about other women and their accusations, but it wasn’t much. I think only one of them was allowed to testify.
He claimed they were herbal, he claimed they were just Benadryl, and he had quite an aura of power and trustworthiness about him that no one would begin to imagine that he was a sexual predator.
One point struck me - he claimed that the pills he gave Andrea were Benadryl but they both described them as blue pills. Benadryl is always, always bright pink. Did the prosecution ever mention that?
How I feel about her statement? I wish she had not said a word.
As far as Bill Cosby goes, seems like this is a kink for him. So, find someone to play with Bill, consensually. He disgusts me.