Camille O. Cosby, the wife of Bill Cosby, has firmly stood behind the disgraced comedian as 60 women have come forward to accuse him of various forms of sexual misconduct going back as far as 1965. Camille continued with this support as she released a stern attack against accuser Andrea Constand who she cited as giving “a falsified account” and the district attorney who successfully tried her case, calling for a criminal investigation against him.
In a three-page statement, Camille blamed her husband's conviction on a scandal-obsessed media and cast the guilty verdict in his trial as part of a historic series of wrongs against African-Americans dating back to slavery. She went as far as to liken his prosecution to a lynching, comparing him to Emmett Till, the black teen who was beaten and hung in 1955 after a white woman accused him of touching her and making sexual comments, allegations that woman later admitted were false.
“This is a homogenous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life,” Camille Cosby wrote, referring to the largely white group of prosecutors, accusers, reporters, and court staff she blamed for her husband’s conviction. “We the majority of the people must make America what it declared itself to be — a democracy — not to be destroyed by vicious, lying, self-absorbed paradigms of evilness.”
Camille released the statement a week after a jury of seven men and five women convicted her husband on three counts of indecent assault: penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious and penetration after administering an intoxicant tied to his 2004 attack on Constand, a former employee of his alma mater Temple University.
She remained mostly absent and silent during her husband's two trials, but sources have said she is actively involved and monitoring her husband's defense. Like her fierce statement she released following the guilty verdict, she also issued a stunning public statement after Bill Cosby's first trial ended in a hung jury and mistrial in June. Camille Cosby wrote a searing attack on the Montgomery County justice system that was read by spokesman Andrew Wyatt on the courthouse steps.
“How do I describe the district attorney? Heinously and exploitatively ambitious,” it read. “How do I describe the judge? Overtly and arrogantly collaborating with the district attorney.”
Camille Cosby’s statement Thursday was just as sharp, and again she directed her fury at many of the same targets.
“Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law,” she wrote. “This is mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country.”
Of the many reporters who have been covering the seemingly endless amounts of allegations against her husband, she wrote: “Are the media now the people’s judges and juries? Since when are all accusers truthful?”
As for Constand, Camille Cosby wrote: “I firmly believe her recent testimony during trial was perjured. … It was unsupported by any evidence and riddled with innumerable, dishonest contradictions.”
Constand's lawyer Dolores Troiani said Thursday through email that she did not intend to respond to Camille Cosby's attack, writing: "12 honorable people, a jury of Cosby’s peers, have spoken there’s nothing else to say.”
The jurors released a statement of their own Monday, saying they firmly believed Constand's account and found Bill Cosby's own sworn testimony from a 2005 civil suit filed by Constand, to be the most compelling evidence against him. It was in that controversial deposition that Cosby admitted to giving women drugs to have sex with them.
“Simply put,” it read, “we were asked to assess the credibility of Ms. Constand’s account of what happened to her, and each one of us found her account credible and compelling.”
Bill Cosby currently remains confined to his home in Cheltenham Township until his sentencing under orders from Judge Steven T. O’Neill who released Cosby on bail. He could face up to 10 years in prison for each count on which he was convicted April 26, but they could be served concurrently.
Source: t.co
