Los Angeles County prosecutors declined Wednesday to charge Bill Cosby with sexually abusing two teenagers in 1965 and 2008, citing time limits and a lack of evidence.
The decision comes about a week after Cosby, 78, was charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 inside his home near Philadelphia — the first criminal case brought against him out of the torrent of allegations that destroyed his good-guy image as America’s Dad.
“We are satisfied that the Los Angeles DA’s office fully and fairly evaluated all the facts and evidence, and came to the right conclusion in declining to file charges against Mr. Cosby,” his attorney, Monique Pressley, said in a statement.
Dozens of women have accused Cosby of sex assaults or attempted molestations in incidents dating back more than four decades.
In Los Angeles County, the district attorney’s office investigated allegations by a woman who said that in 1965, when she was 17 years old, Cosby took her to a jazz club in Hollywood, bought her alcoholic drinks, and took her to a home in the Hollywood Hills where he forced her to have sex.
“Filing the crime of forcible rape is barred by the statute of limitations and as such, any consideration of a criminal filing is prohibited by law,” said comments on a DA’s charge evaluation worksheet.
Charges also were declined in the case of a woman who claimed she attended a party at the Playboy Mansion in the summer of 2008, when she was 18, during which Cosby gave drinks to her and a friend.
The woman claimed she felt dizzy and sick and Cosby offered to take her to lie down in a room where she blacked out. The woman said she awoke naked.
Authorities investigated after model Chloe Goins met with Los Angeles police detectives in January to detail her allegations.
Investigators found Cosby wasn’t listed as a guest at any 2008 summer events at the mansion and a woman that the alleged victim said was a potential witness denied knowing her or being at the mansion, according to the DA’s worksheet.
The worksheet also indicated that the statute of limitations had expired to charge Cosby with misdemeanor sexual battery and indecent exposure in the case and there was little or no evidence to back felony sex charges.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
With the mess USA in with all important national and world wide problems and all losers in White House why bother with another impossible to convict vermin like OJ. Get a life
What else can any citizen expect? I keep going back to saying that God sees it all, but given what’s going on nowadays, that response is becoming increasingly unsatisfactory. I’m reminded of the fact that no man with a million dollars has ever sat in the electric chair. Sad commentary on the justice system in America, which clearly allows people with money to buy a “Get out of jail free” card, thus escaping responsibility for their actions (crimes). Ever has it been so, since day one. Why should anyone be surprised? Kids aren’t taught morals by their parents, anymore, because their parents weren’t taught morals while they were growing up, either. What other outcome could you reasonably expect? Just saying what everybody knows, but refuses to admit. Thank God I won’t be around much longer.
DRINKS ARE OFFERED ,GIRLS HAVE EQUALITY,IN THE 40’S AND 50’S NOT VERY MANY GIRLS WOULD GET TOGETHER WITH MEN AND HAVE DRINKS MUCH LESS GET RAPED,NO I DON;T CONDONE RAPE,BUT IT’S ALOT MORE DANGEROUS FOR FEMALES NOWADAYS.DON’T THESE YOUNG WOMEN’S MOMS WARN THEM ABOUT DRINKING.WHEN IWAS COURTING MY WIFE IN THE 60’S GUESS WHO WAS ALWAYS CLOSE BY , MY FUTURE MOTHER-IN-LAW.
The rape of a woman or a man (yes men get raped also) is despicable. But I am wondering why these women would go to Cosby’s hotel rooms (as many have said they did)? To have a drink? Bars all over the place. Discuss work? Restaurants, bars, coffee shops, etc. with cozy little nooks with privacy for discussions all over the place. Did he hold a gun on them and forcibly make them? Why put themselves in a situation that anything not on the up and up could possibly happen? I was a young adult during this time also. So don’t say it was a different era. Common sense rules, not matter what time span, year, etc. it is. Leads me to wonder about the women’s morals. But, if Cosby did take advantage of the situations and drugged and raped them, of course he should be severely punished.
Many crimes have a statute of limitations to prevent people from being accused of a crime long after any hope of remembering a particular date is gone. I’m going to guess no evidence exists from either of these events which could be used to convict someone in a court of law. Prosecutors aren’t going to want to waste a lot of time going after a high-priced legal defense team if they have no evidence beyond the victim’s account of what happened years ago.
A Playboy Mansion party is not the same as a church social. Anyone attending a Playboy party should be vigilant because it is likely that others attending the party are not going to a gospel singing when they leave.
How many women just want his money? They scream rape. Save bill
Bill Cosby has the same legal right as anyone in America and is innocent until proven guilty, why is he being convected in the press?
proving that this lifestyle is totally acceptable in California.if it walks like a duck…….
Bill went against the Liberals and black liberal friends so now he must pay!
The Truth in my opinion. This is America!
I do not know about the ladies that have come forth, nor the actions of Mr Cosby. However, I do know that Mr Cosby admitted that he used the drugs. If not on those women, who? He did not specify.