Bill Cosby should be slammed with a maximum 30 years behind bars, said a weeping accuser Sunday, on the eve of his sentencing for felony sex assault.<\/b>
\nPHILADELPHIA, Pa. \u2014 Bill Cosby should be slammed with a maximum 30 years behind bars, said a weeping accuser Sunday, on the eve of his sentencing for felony sex assault.
\u201cI waited 32 years to speak \u2014 32 years,\u201d Chelan Lasha \u2014 who claims she was 17 when Cosby drugged and molested her \u2014 said through tears when asked what sentence she thought the perverted 81-year-old entertainer deserved.
\u201cWhat\u2019s 30 years compared to the years and decades of pain that he has brought on so many women?\u201d Lasha said. \u201cI have nightmares every single day, and I want them to go away, just like him.\u201d
Cosby faces anywhere from zero to 30 years behind bars for the 2004 sex assault of former Temple basketball administrator Andrea Constand. Jurors in April convicted him on three charges of aggravated indecent assault in a retrial of the case.
His sentencing is expected to span Monday and Tuesday.
Lasha spoke while flanked by attorney Gloria Allred, and fellow Cosby accuser Maud Lise-Lotte Lublin, who like Lasha is among dozens of women who claim the fallen TV star sexually abused or even raped them.
It\u2019s still not clear whether Lasha and Lublin will get the chance to speak at Cosby\u2019s sentencing. They, along with Janice Baker-Kinney and supermodel Janice Dickinson, already testified against the disgraced comedian at Constand\u2019s trial.
At trial, Lasha said she met with \u201cAmerica\u2019s Dad\u201d for an audition at a Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, after he told her he thought he might have a part for her in \u201cThe Cosby Show.\u201d
Instead, she says, he gave her a pill to \u201cbreak up\u201d her cold \u2014 and she then found herself immobilized on the bed, with Cosby humping her leg, grunting, and fondling her breast.
Lublin has said she met with Cosby for improv lessons in a Vegas hotel in 1989 and \u201cblacked out\u201d after Cosby gave her two shots of booze to \u201chelp her relax.\u201d
Allred said she and her clients were still waiting to learn if they\u2019d be allowed to address the court before Montgomery County Court Judge Steven O\u2019Neill hands down his sentence.
The two Cosby accusers said they hoped they\u2019d be given the chance.
\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Lublin said when asked if she\u2019d like to speak. \u201cIt\u2019s important to us.\u201d
Allred added, \u201cHe should not receive probation. He should not be sentenced to house arrest.
\u201cJudgement day has finally arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n

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