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   From: barryp@aol.com   
      
   A Southern California woman has filed a lawsuit against Bill   
   Cosby, alleging that he sexually assaulted her at the Playboy   
   Mansion in 1974, when she was 15.   
      
   Under California law, the most serious sexual assaults involving   
   minor victims can be charged criminally only if they happened   
   after 1988, the Los Angeles Times reports.   
      
   In the suit, Judy Hauth said she met Cosby in 1974 when he was   
   filming on location in a park. Cosby allegedly went up to Hauth   
   and a friend, asked how old they were, and invited the girls to   
   his tennis club over the weekend. After meeting at the club, the   
   pair went to a house where Cosby "served them alcoholic   
   beverages and played games of billiards," the suit claims, and   
   then made their way to the Playboy Mansion.   
      
   The lawsuit says that while in a bedroom at the mansion, Cosby   
   allegedly tried to "put his hands down her pants," and then   
   allegedly took Hauth's hand and performed a sexual act on   
   himself "without her consent," a "traumatic incident...[that]   
   has caused psychological damage and mental anguish for plaintiff   
   that has caused her significant problems throughout her life."   
      
   Before the suit was filed, Cosby's attorney, Martin D. Singer,   
   said lawsuits are brought against celebrities "every day" and   
   there has "never been a shortage of lawyers" willing to take   
   cases against "rich, powerful men." - - Catherine Garcia   
      
   http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/272937/speedreads-woman-sues-   
   bill-cosby-saying-he-sexually-assaulted-her-when-she-was-15   
      
       
      
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