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LOS ANGELES POLICE have opened an investigation into a woman’s claims that Bill Cosby molested her when she was 15 years old, a department spokeswoman said.
The investigation was opened after Judy Huth, who is suing Cosby for sexual battery, met with Los Angeles police detectives for 90 minutes.
Los Angeles Police Officer Jane Kim said the department opened its investigation after the meeting.
Huth’s civil suit claims Cosby forced her to perform a sex act on him in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she was underage.
Lawsuit
Attorney Gloria Allred said Judy Huth met with two special victim unit detectives Friday, three days after her lawsuit was filed.
“We are going to provide any and all evidence that she has,” Allred said.
Huth did not take questions during a news conference.
Police did not give any additional details about the investigation. Police Chief Charlie Beck on Thursday urged potential victims of sex abuse by Cosby to speak with detectives, regardless of whether their claims were outside the statute of limitations.
Allred refused to comment on Huth’s lawsuit, which was filed by a different firm. Cosby’s attorney, Martin Singer, accused Huth and another lawyer of extortion and said she attempted to sell her story to a tabloid a decade earlier.
Singer’s filing state the other attorney, Marc Strecker, first demanded $100,000 for Huth to remain silent, then raised the demand to $250,000 as more women came forward accusing Cosby of sexual misconduct.
Cosby has been accused by more than 15 women in recent weeks of sexual misconduct, ranging from incidents of groping to incidents of drugging and raping. He has never been charged with a crime, and his attorneys have denied many of the allegations.
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Work crews on Friday were forced to clean up Cosby’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame after someone wrote “Rapist” on it three times.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which manages the stars embedded in several sidewalks in Hollywood, wrote in a statement that the stars were intended to celebrate the positive contributions of its inductees.
“When people are unhappy with one of our honorees, we would hope that they would project their anger in more positive ways then to vandalize a California state landmark,” the chamber wrote in a statement.
Cosby received his star in 1977. It’s placed near the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and North Highland Avenue.
Also on Friday, a woman who claims Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1979 told her story in interviews with CNN and The Associated Press and said she wanted to help stop the comedian from abusing others.
P.J. Masten said in an interview with CNN that she woke up naked and bruised in a bed with Cosby in Chicago after he gave her an alcoholic drink and that she believes she was raped.
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Hand out more free food and more people will take it…who knew ?
Why are our people going hungry it’s time
@Robert Halvey: Because fate destined it so. If I’m doing alright it’s obviously because some cosmic force deems my worth to be greater than those who are struggling, who obviously deserve it. It’s basic evolutionary biology. Follow the science!
@Robert Halvey: actually it’s Mainly a U.K. thing. And Northern Ireland is the U.K. not Ireland. Compared to standards of living across European countries (comparable countries seen to be 1st world and developed ) the average U.K. citizen is very poor
Scotland and Northern Ireland have one common denominator – apart from VAT they have no control over taxation.
@Peter McGlynn: Not sure how that’s reducing people’s ability to buy food. Surely food isn’t taxed?
If Scottish people aren’t resorting to food banks at the level that people are in NI, they aren’t as badly off.
A country with a Sin Fein majority in power. People of the South should take note.
@Martin O Connell: But there is no actual functioning assembly in Northern Ireland, due to the DUP not wanting to form an assembly after the last election in which they became 2nd place to Sinn Fein and could no longer claim the role of first minister.
Therefore, the political process in NI is essentially in limbo, with civil servants in control of the day to day running of NI and not Sinn Fein.
So if you want to lay blame for any issues that remain unaddressed in NI at the moment, firstly look to the DUP and then to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and finally the NI civil service.
In fairness to the NI civil service, they flagged early on that this role being forced upon them would lead to a stagnation of services and numerous other issues the longer it continued.
In fairness to the NI civil service, they flagged early on that this role being forced upon them would lead to a stagnation of services and numerous other issues the longer it continued because they have no mandate or power to change, adapt or respond to any issues.
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