The actress Lili Bernard, who accuses the actor for having drugged and violated more than 30 years ago, relied on a law of New Jersey to bring a complaint to the civil.
Le Monde with AFP
Liberated in prison for a few months, the comedian Bill Cosby is the subject of a new civilian complaint on the part of an actress who accuses him of having drugged and violated more than 30 years ago and which claims $ 125 million in damages in a New Jersey court.
Who embodied for years the ideal father in the Cosby Show had been released from prison on June 30, after the cancellation by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania of his conviction to a minimum of three years in prison for assaulting Sexually in 2004 Andrea Constand, a woman who worked for the Temple University in Philadelphia.
This case is the only one to have been the subject of criminal proceedings, but Bill Cosby, 84, has been questioned by dozens of women, including Lili Bernard, who appeared to his trial.
A complaint that relies on a New Jersey law
In his complaint, filed Thursday, the actress, who had played in Cosby Show, assured that around August 1990, Bill Cosby gave an appointment at the Hotel-Casino Trump Taj Mahal of Atlantic City (New Jersey), under the pretext of meeting a producer.
In the rest of the hotel, the comedian, then an icon of American popular culture, would have made him drink a drink that would have made him unconscious, a process found in the accusations of other women against him. Lili Bernard says that his awakening, Bill Cosby was rapeting it.
Lili Bernard relied on a New Jersey law that granted victims of sexual abuse a two-year period, which will end next month, to bring a civilian complaint against their presumed abusers, regardless of the seniority of the facts.
A spokesman for Cosby responded to a statement that New Jersey prosecutors had already closed an investigation into the charges of Lili Bernard in 2015 without charge the comedian. “This is a new attempt to abuse judicial proceedings, opening the valves to people who have never presented an ounce of evidence, testimony, truth and / or facts to support their allegations , “said Andrew Wyatt.
At the civilian, Cosby could also be judged before a Tribunal of the County of Los Angeles, where he is prosecuted by another woman who had filed a complaint in 2014, for a sexual assault committed in 1974.