BILL Cosby will face sentencing on Monday in the United States after being found guilty of three charges of aggravated indecent assault.
Several women who alleged Cosby assaulted them, whose cases were not followed through to criminal charges, have requested to testify at the sentencing. The judge has denied this motion.
Cosby was found guilty in April this year, of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004.
Ms Constand, a former basketball star, was working at the athletic department at Philadelphia’s Temple University when the alleged assault took place in Cosby’s home.
She claimed Cosby drugged her to a state of semiconsciousness and groped and digitally raped her.
Cosby is permitted to speak at his sentencing but it is unclear whether he will do so.
The convicted sex offender has fought hard with his powerhouse legal team to have his case
thrown out, but his sentencing on Monday could see him face up to thirty years prison time for his crimes.
The allegations against Cosby are numerous, heinous and horrific. His victims are in the dozens and span decades, between 1965 and 2004.
Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing is set to start with testimony about his sex offender evaluation and a fierce debate over whether he should be deemed a "sexually violent predator." Picture: Matt RourkeSource:APMany are high profile actors, models and businesswoman, including supermodel and TV host Janice Dickinson, actor and supermodel Beverly Johnson, Law and Orderactor Michelle Hurd and numerous Playboy Playmates.
Many follow a similar narrative, which Cosby corroborated in his own deposition.
Cosby drugged women and assaulted them while they were unconscious or semiconscious.
His pursuance of women was often aided by modelling or talent agents, who would connect him with women who were financially “not doing well”.
He would offer them drinks secretly laced with Quaaludes, a now banned and discontinued drug which is a barbiturate, hypnotic sedative.
Cosby suggested consent was granted by accepting to meet up with him, and drugs were offered in the same manner as he would offer a drink.
“I’m a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them,” Cosby said, when deposed in 2005 following the assault accusation by Ms Constand.
Many of his victims describe blacking out, feeling lost, sipping their drink and then having “face-in-plate” syndrome, being “picked up by their underarms” and carried to other rooms, and waking up covered in semen.
Bill Cosby, centre, leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., after being convicted of drugging and molesting a woman. Picture: Matt SlocumSource:AP
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