Bill Cosby Sentenced to 3 to 10 Years in State Prison Following Sexual Assault Conviction

According to TMZ, Bill Cosby was sentenced to 3 to 10 years in Pennsylvania state prison following his sexual assault case coming to a close. Cosby was denied bail and serves the full term, he’ll be 91 when he’s released. Cosby was labeled a “sexually violent predator,” will be placed on the sex-offender registry, and has to undergo lifetime counseling and must report quarterly to authorities.

On April 26, the jury in Cosby’s retrial found him guilty on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault, after an earlier attempt to prosecute him in June 2017 ended in a mistrial. The felony counts were connected to a 2004 incident between Cosby and former Temple University employee Andrea Constand. She testified that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her at his Philadelphia home.

The judge stated the following…

“I’m not permitted to treat him any differently based on who he is or who he was. As she [Constand] said, Mr. Cosby, you took her beautiful, healthy young spirit and crushed it.” He told Constand, “I heard the very clear impact on your life.”