In an incident that occurred virtually 5 a long time in the past, a jury in California on Tuesday has discovered entertainer Bill Cosby responsible of sexually assaulting an adolescent at the Playboy Mansion

After the jury in Santa Monica decided that Cosby had molested her in 1975 when she was simply 16 years previous, Judy Huth, now aged 64, was awarded $500,000 in damages.

The case is without doubt one of the few remaining authorized actions in opposition to Cosby, 84, who has been accused of assault by dozens of girls.

He was jailed in Pennsylvania in a separate legal case in 2018, however was freed final yr when his conviction was overturned on a technicality.

Over a two-week civil listening to, which Cosby didn’t attend, legal professionals mentioned the person as soon as often called “America’s Dad” escorted Huth and her then-17-year-old pal, Donna Samuelson, to the mansion after assembly them on a film set.

Cosby denied any wrongdoing, and his legal professionals made a lot of obvious discrepancies in Hutch’s story, together with that each teenagers spent as much as 12 hours at the mansion after the alleged assault.

Additionally they argued that Huth initially claimed the assault occurred in 1974 when she was 15, however later mentioned it had occurred the next yr.

The case was by no means prosecuted criminally because the statute of limitations had handed by the point Huth spoke to police.

Huth was capable of carry the civil go well with beneath a California regulation permitting adults who say they had been victims of sexual abuse as minors, however repressed what occurred to them for years, to pursue such circumstances.