Yet another woman has come forward accusing comedian Bill Cosby of
sexual assault.
Judy Huth
filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming sexual battery and
infliction of emotional distress during an incident at the Playboy Mansion,
according to the documents posted by Radar Online.
The
alleged sexual assault took place in 1974 when Huth was 15 years old.
According
to court documents, Huth and a 16-year-old friend meet Cosby when he was
filming a movie at Lacy Park in Los Angeles. Continue...
After
talking with the girls, the suit alleges, Cosby invited them to come to his
tennis club the following Saturday "where he served them alcoholic
beverages and played games of billiards."
They then
went to the Playboy Mansion where, the lawsuit says, Cosby asked Huth to sit on
a bed beside him, after she came out of a bathroom.
"He
then proceeded to sexually molest her by attempting to put his hand down her
pants, and then taking her hand in his hand and performing a sex act on himself
without her consent."
CNN
reached out to Cosby's lawyer Martin D. Singer, but was not immediately able to
get a response.
His camp
has repeatedly and vigorously denied previous allegations.
CNN also
tried to contact Huth and her attorneys, but have not heard back from them.
'Horrible,
horrendous allegations'
The suit
goes on to call Cosby's alleged actions "malicious, oppressive and
fraudulent in nature."
"This
traumatic incident, at such a tender age, has caused psychological damage and
mental anguish for (Huth) that has caused her significant problems throughout
her life since the incident."
The case
describes the damages "substantial and continuing."
Huth is
asking for damages and legal fees.
Because
four decades have passed since the alleged crime, It wasn't immediately clear
if the case falls within the statute of limitations in California for child sex
abuse.
CNN
political contributor Van Jones said now is the time for Cosby to speak up,
with allegations mounting.
"At
some point, his silence becomes almost kind of an admission," Jones
contends. "These are horrible, horrendous allegations."
Cosby has
not commented on the allegations, leaving that to his lawyer.
In a
recent statement, Singer said it defies common sense that "so many people
would have said nothing, done nothing, and made no reports to law enforcement
or asserted civil claims if they thought they had been assaulted over a span of
so many years."
By CNN's
count, at least 17 women have gone public with accusations.
"He
owes this country. He owes his fans. He owes the women some kind of
statement," said Jones, is also an attorney. "I think this level of
silence for this long is unfair to everybody."
Another
allegation
The
lawsuit dropped on the same day the Daily Beast published
a story in which a man named Tony Hogue alleges he rescued a female friend from
Cosby's New York brownstone in 1984.
The
article describes Hogue beating on the comedian's front door after receiving a
frantic phone call from the woman who said, "Tony, you've got to come get
me."
After
Cosby answered the door, the story says, Hogue found his friend on the second
floor of the home.
"She
looked drugged and in a fog, and she couldn't snap out of it," he said.
"She was a mess."
The Daily
Beast reports this same woman was a witness in a sex assault lawsuit against Cosby,
filed in 2005.
That case
was settled before going to trial.
But Cosby
does have his supporters.
Comedian
Whoopi Goldberg said November 17 that she was skeptical of the rape claims
against him by one of the accusers.
"I
have a lot of questions for the lady," Goldberg said on "The
View."
Her
support may have prompted Tuesday's cryptic tweet from Cosby's Twitter account:
"Thank you @WhoopiGoldberg."
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