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SANTA MONICA: In video testimony performed for jurors Wednesday at a civil trial, Invoice Cosby denies sexually abusing a teenage lady on the Playboy Mansion within the mid-Seventies.
Requested by way of an lawyer for Judy Huth, who’s suing Cosby, whether or not he had attempted to position his hand down Huth’s pants, Cosby temporarily and obviously solutions “no.” Requested if he uncovered himself and compelled her to the touch him sexually, Cosby solutions “no” in the similar manner.
Requested whether or not it used to be conceivable that this stuff came about however Cosby did not take into account them, Cosby replied “no.” “Why would that no longer be conceivable?” Huth’s lawyer Nathan Goldberg asks. “As a result of,” Cosby replies, “the truth that this younger girl is pronouncing that she instructed me she used to be 15.”
In any other clip, Goldberg asks Cosby if he would knowingly have relationships with ladies who have been beneath 18 within the mid-Seventies. Cosby solutions “no.” However he additionally says “no” when requested whether or not he would be sure the ones he sought sexual relationships with have been 18.
On the time the video deposition used to be taken, on Oct. 9, 2015, Huth maintained that the molestation had taken position in 1973 or 1974, when she used to be 15, however in a while prior to trial mentioned an exam of the proof confirmed it used to be in 1975, when she used to be 16.
The 12 mins of clips, performed for the jury on the finish of the 6th day of the trial in Los Angeles County, constitute the primary time Cosby’s voice used to be heard all over the court cases. He is dressed in a grey sportscoat with a get dressed blouse and tie and sitting at a desk.
The 85-year-old actor and comic aren’t attending the trial because of glaucoma that has left him blind, his representatives mentioned. A pass judgement on additionally dominated that he may just invoke his 5th Modification privilege and decline to testify or to present a 2nd deposition within the case that the plaintiff had sought.
Cosby says within the video that he didn’t take into account assembly Huth or her pal Donna Samuelson, who each and every testified previous within the trial that they met him on a movie set, then days later met up with him at a tennis membership, in short visited a space he used to be staying at then went with him to the mansion.
Requested whether or not being proven photos of himself with Huth on the mansion would alternate his solutions about whether or not he knew them, Cosby replies that it could imply little.
“What’s the phrase ‘know,’ that I ‘know’ someone?” Cosby says in one in every of his few lengthy replies within the video. “Or that I met somebody? Or that, whilst at Disneyland I met 100 other folks and took photos with them? Or that, whilst I’m on the airport I’m sitting, ready to catch a airplane and other folks arise and sit down subsequent to me, sit down on me, put your arm round me, say hi and take an image that later would possibly display up someplace someway and that I do know this particular person? No, sir.”
Cosby provides, “It doesn’t imply that they have been with me, or that I used to be even with them.” Two photos that Samuelson took of Cosby with Huth on the mansion were proven a number of instances all over the trial. Cosby’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean has said that he took the ladies there, however each Bonjean and Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt has again and again denied that any sexual interplay happened.
Huth’s lawyers rested their case after taking part in the video. Cosby’s lawyers will start calling their very own witnesses Thursday. Huth, now 64, used to be at the stand previous Wednesday after attesting for a lot of Tuesday.
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Whilst cross-examining her, Bonjean challenged Huth over the timing of her struggles with melancholy, suggesting they have been obviously no longer spurred by way of any abuse from Cosby.
Huth filed the lawsuit in 2014, pronouncing that her son turning 15 that very same yr introduced again painful recollections of her sexual attack, and taken on next melancholy.
Bonjean confirmed Huth scientific data from 2011, 2012 and 2013 by which her physician assessed her with primary melancholy and prescribed her anti-depressants.
“We will agree that you just suffered from primary melancholy prior to your son grew to become 15?” Bonjean requested Huth, who used to be at the witness stand in a Los Angeles County courthouse for the second one day within the civil trial. “I have no idea that I did,” Huth mentioned. “So scientific data appearing that might be faulty?” Bonjean requested.
Huth again and again replied that and an identical questions by way of pronouncing she didn’t take into account coping with melancholy or taking drugs for it all over the ones years however said that the paperwork in entrance of her mentioned she had.
Bonjean additionally pointed to other doable reasons for Huth’s melancholy. “You had an extended historical past of trauma on your lifestyles that had not anything to do with Mr Cosby, proper?” Bonjean requested. “Not anything as unhealthy as that, that is needless to say,” Huth replied.
Huth’s lawsuit says she suffered mental injury from Cosby’s abuse from 2014 when she started having nervousness over it and flashbacks to it, till 2018 when he used to be despatched to jail within the Pennsylvania felony case.
Goldberg, her lawyer, requested her Wednesday, “Do you know whilst you have been 16 that what Mr Cosby did reason you mental damage?” “No,” Huth replied. “I used to be only a child.”
The trial represents one of the vital remaining ultimate prison claims towards the 85-year-old Cosby after his felony conviction used to be thrown out by way of an appeals court docket and he used to be free of jail remaining yr, and his insurer settled many different proceedings towards his will.
The Related Press does no longer in most cases identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused, except they arrive ahead publicly, as Huth has.