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BC is being accused by the media of sexual assaults and there are a growing number of woman who have spoken out against him, but no charges.


Netflix and NBC have pulled productions but he's officially guilty of nothing and it's clear that these companies cannot afford to take the risk of being associated with a possible sex criminal.


But there is no longer any such thing as innocent until proven guilty in the world of celebrity sex offences.


No smoke without fire ?

According to some of the interviews, most of those involved have been paid off and gagged along the way.


Does innocent until proven guilty apply in the US or is it just a British principle? I don't think the process works that way in France, for example.

Mick


How long have people said about saville "we should have known. We should have done something"


Cosby isn't on trial and isn't imprisoned. The allegations (or many of them) have been public for years and as is the way of abused people, seeing others talk about their experience encourages others. You might be suspicious if it was one or two, but no way am I dismissing that many people.

It's a pretty consistant M.O


Money, money, money, talks in cases like this


And on listening to a radio programe about wealth, I wonder if the same applies in cases like this


It doesn't matter how you make your wealth, it's how you launder you image after


So it might follow with deviant sexuality, in cases like Saville and Cosby perhaps, that the image is laundered to such a point, as to be a near fortress


Pretty shocking tho

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Does innocent until proven guilty apply in the US

> or is it just a British principle?


Are we really any better? Rolf Harris, for example.


As soon as the allegations become public, almost everyone will assume that when there's smoke there's fire. How can you keep something like this under wraps?

What I don't understand about the whole Bill Cosby thing is that it appears to be operating completely outside the criminal justice system. Has nobody been to the police? Why has he not been arrested? It appears to be mostly about reputational damage on his part. Can anyone shed any light on this?

nxjen Wrote:

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> Apparently events took place over 30 years ago

> which is outside the statute of limitations which

> is operational in the US.



That'll be about the same time that he was last relevant.

  • 2 years later...

It seems from the documentary that the game changer in this is that only one accusation is within the 30 years statute of limitations, but for that one he gave a testimony to police in private before charges were dropped on the most recent sexual assault. The victim then filed a private prosecution and gave up her anonymity.


Associated Press in 2015 successfully claimed for that testimony to be made available and succeeded. Apparently in the testimony he admitted to drugging women in the past.


This should all come out at trial.


Many think that his philanthropy over the last 30 years is his way of hedging against, or making some payback (in his own mind) for his earlier demeanours.


But it seems that he couldn't keep the old BC from coming out and assaulting one more time and for that reason he's going to feel the full force of the law/public opinion.

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