By Blessing Udeobasi
Jurors in Los Angeles County have declared actor Bill Cosby guilty of a s3xual assault suit filled against him by Judy Huth who claimed the incident occurred at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was 16-year-old.
The verdict which was made on Tuesday in favour of the victim ordered Cosby to pay Huth $500,000 in damages for the emotional distress she said she suffered years later.
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Although Cosby pleaded not guilty, he did not appear in person at the trial but in the video shown to the jurors, he said he did not remember Huth and that he would not have practiced s3xual contact with someone who was under the age of 18.
However, Huth said in court documents and in testimony at the trial that she and a friend met Cosby at a park and that the actor later took her and her friend to the Playboy Mansion. She testified that Cosby, who was 37 at the time, assaulted her, took her hand and used it to masturbate his penis.
