{"id":81680,"date":"2026-03-24T08:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81680"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:10:05","slug":"cosby-found-liable-for-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/cosby-found-liable-for-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosby Found Liable For Sexual Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A civil jury in California found Monday that\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/bill-cosby\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Bill Cosby<\/a><\/span> was liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972 and awarded her $59.25 million.\u00a0After a nearly two-week trial in Santa Monica, jurors found Cosby, 88, liable for the sexual battery and assault of Donna Motsinger. They awarded her $17.5 million in past damages and $1.75 million for future damages, including \u201cmental suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, inconvenience, grief, anxiety, humiliation, and emotional distress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then in a second phase of the trial Monday afternoon, they awarded an additional $40 million in punitive damages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774339805\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Cosby Found Liable For Sexual Assault\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: A civil jury in California found Monday that\u00a0Bill Cosby was liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}