Tuesday 16 December 2014

'Who Is The Victim?' Bill Cosby's Wife And Daughter Come To His Defense

Bill Cosby has kept quiet as sexual assault allegations against him
have piled up, but now his wife and one of his daughters are publicly
defending him.

"He is a kind man, a generous man, a funny man," Cosby's wife Camille
said in a statement first reported by CBSon Monday. "A different man
has been portrayed in the media over the last two months. It is the
portrait of a man I do not know."

Cosby's youngest daughter, Evin, followed up by praising her parents
in a lengthy Facebook post.

Then, in a statement obtained by Access Hollywoodon Tuesday, Evin said this:

"He is the father you thought you knew. The Cosby Show was my today's
TV reality show. Thank you. That's all I would like to say :)"

Evin went into more detail on Facebook, saying, among other things,
"Rape is a serious allegation and it is supposed to be
takenveryseriously but so is falsely accusing someone. When someone
rapes a person they go to prison.Thatshould also happen to the person
that has wrongfully accused an innocent victim."

She also questioned how women who say they were drugged by Cosby can
remember the details of the incidents.

And she thanked people who have been supportive of her family.

"There will always be jealous, vengeful and crazy people out there to
break anyone down," Evin wrote. "Every day we wake up and appreciate
the love and support from everyone."

In her statement on Monday, Camille Cosby also went into some detail,
invoking Rolling Stone's reexamined story of rape at the University
of Virginiaand comparing her husband's current crisis to the one
going on at Rolling Stone.

"The story was heart-breaking, but ultimately appears to be proved to
be untrue," Mrs. Cosby said, referring to the magazine's story. "Many
in the media were quick to link that story to stories about my husband
-- until that story unwound."

Over the last month, many women have come forward to accuse Cosby of
committing sexual assaults, a crime the star has never been officially
charged with.

The accusations have remade Cosby's public persona and resulted in
cancelled projectsand scrappd tour dates.

Mrs. Cosby's statement came days after Bill Cosby himself broke his
silenceto Stacy Brown, a freelance reporter for the New York Post and
other outlets.

On Monday, Mrs. Cosby's statement asked the public to think about who
could be the true victims of these allegations -- clearly insinuating
that she and her husband are.

"None of us will ever want to be in the position of attacking a
victim," she wrote. "But the question should be asked -- who is the
victim?"
--CNN

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