Bill Cosby will be sentenced Monday, September 24 for the 2004 sexual assault of Andrea Constand, and prosecutors are pushing for the fallen star to be locked up the same day, TMZ reports.
Earlier this year, in April, the 81-year-old comedian was found guilty of three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault regarding the drugging of Constand, who was a basketball coach at his alma mater, Temple University. Cosby was released on $1 million bail and ordered to stay home until the sentencing.
The prosecutors want him imprisoned immediately because they believe Cosby's legal team will appeal the conviction, which will keep the once revered comedian free on bail for years.
Experts have stated each count has up to 10 years and Cosby could serve all 30 years concurrently. ABC News reports it is likely Cosby could serve from zero to 10 years for the crime.
“I think it’s going to be a really amazing experience, if that’s what we get to see, and I really hope that we do,” Victoria Valentino, a former Playboy model who claims that Cosby raped her in 1969. “I think it would mean a lot to women in general and to the victims across the country, knowing that he’s not going to get away with it, that he really is going to have to suffer the consequences of his own actions."
“God knows we’ve been suffering the consequences of his actions all these years, so it’s only fair that he gets to feel the bite of all of this too,” she added.
Constand was one of the 60-plus women to accuse Cosby of raping and/or drugging them since the late 1960s. As the Me Too movement gained moment, Cosby's allegations and case have become the first real victory for the activists demanding Hollywood respect women more and stomp out a culture of sexual abuse.
NBC News reports prosecutors also wanted to bring in an unspecified number of the women to testify at Monday's hearing, but Judge Steven O'Neill deemed the allegations too old to allow for criminal charges.
Last month, Cosby's attorneys have pushed back against calls labeling the former star of The Cosby Show a violent sexual predator. The term “is by any measure excessive when applied to an 81-year-old blind man.”
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