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Pennsylvania court rejects Bill Cosby's appeal of sex assault conviction via SABCNewsOnline

, who built a long career capped by the 1980s TV hit “The Cosby Show,” became the first celebrity convicted in the “#MeToo” era when a jury found him guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former Temple University administrator, at his Philadelphia home in 2004.

“Our personal battle against clear, racist, incestuous vindictiveness within the Pennsylvania criminal justice systems is not over,” Camille Cosby, the entertainer’s wife, said in a statement. They were among some 50 women who accused Cosby, now 82, of sexual assaults going back decades, though all the accusations but Constand’s were too old to prosecute.Cosby’s second trial played out after the #MeToo movement had exposed how widely women had been subjected to sexual harassment and abuse across wide swaths of American life, in fields ranging from entertainment to business to politics.

 

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