Cosby in video testimony denies intercourse abuse of youth in Nineteen Seventies

By Associated Press

SANTA MONICA: In video testimony performed for jurors Wednesday at a civil trial, Bill Cosby denies sexually abusing a teenage woman on the Playboy Mansion within the mid-Nineteen Seventies.

Asked by an lawyer for Judy Huth, who’s suing Cosby, whether or not he had tried to place his hand down Huth’s pants, Cosby rapidly and clearly solutions “no.” Asked if he exposed himself and forced her to touch him sexually, Cosby answers “no” in the identical manner.

Asked whether or not it was doable that these items occurred however Cosby did not bear in mind them, Cosby answered “no.” “Why would that not be possible?” Huth’s lawyer Nathan Goldberg asks. “Because,” Cosby replies, “the fact that this young lady is saying that she told me she was 15.”

In one other clip, Goldberg asks Cosby if he would knowingly have relationships with ladies who had been below 18 within the mid-Nineteen Seventies. Cosby solutions “no.” But he additionally says “no” when requested whether or not he would be sure that these he sought sexual relationships with had been 18.

At the time the video deposition was taken, on Oct. 9, 2015, Huth maintained that the molestation had taken place in 1973 or 1974, when she was 15, however shortly earlier than trial stated an examination of the proof confirmed it was in 1975, when she was 16.

The 12 minutes of clips, performed for the jury on the finish of the sixth day of the trial in Los Angeles County, characterize the primary time Cosby’s voice was heard in the course of the proceedings. He’s sporting a grey sportscoat with a gown shirt and tie and sitting at a desk.

The 85-year-old actor and comic should not attending the trial because of glaucoma that has left him blind, his representatives stated. A decide additionally dominated that he might invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege and decline to testify or to provide a second deposition within the case that the plaintiff had sought.

Cosby says within the video that he didn’t bear in mind assembly Huth or her good friend Donna Samuelson, who every testified earlier within the trial that they met him on a movie set, then days later met up with him at a tennis membership, briefly visited a home he was staying at then went with him to the mansion.

Asked whether or not being proven footage of himself with Huth on the mansion would change his solutions about whether or not he knew them, Cosby replies that it could imply little.

“What is the word ‘know,’ that I ‘know’ somebody?” Cosby says in considered one of his few lengthy replies within the video. “Or that I met someone? Or that, while at Disneyland I met a hundred people and took pictures with them? Or that, while I’m at the airport I’m sitting, waiting to catch a plane and people come up and sit next to me, sit on me, put your arm around me, say hello and take a picture that later might show up somewhere somehow and that I know this person? No, sir.”

Cosby provides, “It doesn’t mean that they were with me, or that I was even with them.” Two footage that Samuelson took of Cosby with Huth on the mansion have been proven a number of instances in the course of the trial. Cosby’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean has acknowledged that he took the ladies there, however each Bonjean and Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt has repeatedly denied that any sexual interplay happened.

Huth’s attorneys rested their case after enjoying the video. Cosby’s attorneys will start calling their very own witnesses Thursday. Huth, now 64, was on the stand earlier Wednesday after testifying for a lot of Tuesday.

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While cross-examining her, Bonjean challenged Huth over the timing of her struggles with despair, suggesting they had been clearly not spurred by any abuse from Cosby.

Huth filed the lawsuit in 2014, saying that her son turning 15 that very same 12 months introduced again painful reminiscences of her sexual assault, and introduced on subsequent despair.

Bonjean confirmed Huth medical data from 2011, 2012 and 2013 by which her physician assessed her with main despair and prescribed her anti-depressants.

“We can agree that you suffered from major depression before your son turned 15?” Bonjean requested Huth, who was on the witness stand in a Los Angeles County courthouse for the second day within the civil trial. “I don’t know that I did,” Huth stated. “So medical records showing that would be inaccurate?” Bonjean requested.

Huth repeatedly answered that and comparable questions by saying she didn’t bear in mind coping with despair or taking medicines for it throughout these years however acknowledged that the paperwork in entrance of her stated she had.

Bonjean additionally pointed to completely different potential causes for Huth’s despair. “You had a long history of trauma in your life that had nothing to do with Mr Cosby, right?” Bonjean requested. “Nothing as bad as that, that’s for sure,” Huth answered.

Huth’s lawsuit says she suffered psychological harm from Cosby’s abuse from 2014 when she started having nervousness over it and flashbacks to it, till 2018 when he was despatched to jail within the Pennsylvania prison case.

Goldberg, her lawyer, requested her Wednesday, “Did you know when you were 16 that what Mr Cosby did cause you psychological injury?” “No,” Huth answered. “I was just a kid.”

The trial represents one of many final remaining authorized claims in opposition to the 85-year-old Cosby after his prison conviction was thrown out by an appeals courtroom and he was free of jail final 12 months, and his insurer settled many different lawsuits in opposition to his will.

The Associated Press doesn’t usually title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused, until they arrive ahead publicly, as Huth has.