Sexual Assault: Bill Cosby to Pay $59M
Actor and comedian Bill Cosby returns to the courtroom after a break with his spokesman Andrew Wyatt at the Montgomery County Courthouse, during his sexual assault trial sentencing in Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S. September 24, 2018. (Photo by David Maialetti-Pool/Getty Images) A California jury awarded a woman named Donna Motsinger millions on Monday after finding Bill Cosby liable for a 1972 sexual assault. Motsinger is currently 84 years old. At the time of the assault in 1972, she was in her 30s and working as a restaurant server in Sausalito, California. The jury found the 88-year-old comedian liable for drugging and sexually assaulting Motsinger. They initially awarded her $19.25 million, $17.5 million for past suffering and $1.75 million for future emotional distress. However, just hours later, following a second phase of deliberations to determine if Cosby acted with “malice,” the jury added an additional $40 million in punitive damages, bringing the total to $59.25 million....