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September 26, 2018
Judge Sentences Cosby to Prison
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(AP) -- His Hollywood ca-
reer and good-guy image in ru-
ins, Bill Cosby was led away to
prison in handcuffs Tuesday at
age 81, sentenced to three to 10
years behind bars for drugging
and sexually assaulting a woman
at his gated estate.
The punishment made him the
first celebrity of the #MeToo era
to be sent to prison and all but
completed the dizzying, late-in-
life fall from grace for the co-
median, TV star and breaker of
racial barriers.
“It is time for justice. Mr.
Cosby, this has all circled back
to you. The time has come,”
Montgomery County Judge Ste-
ven O’Neill said. He quoted
from victim Andrea Constand’s
statement to the court, in which
she said Cosby took her “beauti-
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Bill Cosby departs from the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. in handcuffs Tuesday
to begin serving a three-to-10 year state prison sentence for sexual assault. (AP photo)
ful, young spirit and crushed it.”
Cosby declined the opportuni-
ty to speak before the sentence
came down, and afterward sat
smiling, laughing and chatting
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of 54 years, Camille, was not in
Cosby’s lawyers asked that he
court. Constand smiled broad- be allowed to remain free on bail
ly upon hearing the punishment
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