Judge weighs bid to dismiss child sex abuse claim against Cosby

Judge weighs bid to dismiss child sex abuse claim against Cosby

Judge weighs bid to dismiss child sex abuse claim against Cosby, Lawyers for actor Bill Cosby and a woman accusing him of sexually abusing her as a adolescent were due to face off in a California attorneys on Thursday over a aegis bid to abolish her accusation for affidavit accompanying to the statute of limitations.

Cosby, 78, whose career and accessible angel as the archetypal American ancestors man accept been burst by ascent allegations of animal misconduct, absent a antecedent bid to bulwark off the aforementioned accusation on agnate area endure year.

His accuser in that case, Judy Huth, now in her 50s, sued Cosby in December 2014, alleging that he plied her with booze and confused her during an appointment at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1974, if she was 15.

Cosby has alleged Huth's annual a artifact and asserted that her case adjoin him grew out of a bootless extortion attempt.

Huth is one added than 50 women who accept appear advanced over the accomplished two years to about allege Cosby of abduction and added forms of animal abuse. Most absorb incidents said to accept occurred a decade ago or more, too continued to be criminally prosecuted, or even litigated in civilian court.

But authorities in Pennsylvania answerable the amateur in December with sexually assaulting a woman in 2005. And at atomic nine added women - eight of them in Massachusetts - are currently suing Cosby for defamation, claiming they were anointed by his accessible assertions that their allegations of animal atrocity were false.

Huth, however, filed her clothing beneath a California law acceptance victims of adolescence corruption to sue above the statute of limitations if, aural the endure three years, they accept accomplished they suffered from cerebral accident that ahead was repressed.

Cosby's attorneys accept countered that Huth's affirmation fails to accommodated that test, adage she "unsuccessfully approved to advertise her adventure to the tabloids about a decade ago."

"This actuality belies the allegations in the accusation that (Huth) alone just apparent the base for her claims aural the accomplished three years," aegis attorneys argued in their cloister filing. According to Cosby's lawyers, Huth sued the actor alone afterwards abominably aggravating to blackmail him for calm money.

Cosby's attorneys aswell accept approved adjournment of Huth's complaint on area that she lacked the appropriate acceptance from brainy bloom professionals to abutment her claims.

Los Angeles County Superior Cloister Judge Craig Kaplan was accepted to apprehend arguments from both abandon and possibly cede a cardinal on Thursday. (Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles)

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