SHRINK: COSBY MAY DO IT AGAIN
Bill Cosby is a “sexually violent predator” who has a penchant for assaulting “nonconsenting women,” a psychologist testified Monday — telling a judge that Cosby may have already met his next victim.
The eerie observation came from Kristen Dudley on the first day of a two-day sentencing hearing in a Montgomery County, Pa., court, where Judge Steven O’Neill also heard from Andrea Constand, whom Cosby was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting in 2004, and her parents.
Dudley backed up the assertion by prosecutors who want O’Neill to slap the man once beloved as “America’s Dad” with a designation of “sexually violent predator” and lock him up for five to 10 years. Cosby is 81.
“Mr. Cosby has been engaging in this behavior for 30 years,” Dudley said.
“His paraphilia is nonconsenting women.”
Dudley, a member of Pennsylvania’s Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, conducted an evaluation of Cosby following his April conviction on three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Constand, a for- mer Temple University basketball administrator.
Cosby exercised his right to refuse to cooperate with the evaluation, so Dudley said she relied on transcripts from his two criminal trials to make her assessment.
She also took into account testimony from six other women who also accused Cosby of slipping them pills and sexually assaulting them.
“Taken in a fuller context of the other witnesses who testified . . . it creates a picture of a person, of Mr. Cosby, who befriends women and during the course of the friendship was able to supply them with drugs and alcohol to sedate them,” Dudley testified.
On cross-examination, Cosby lawyer Joseph Green Jr. tried to get Dudley to admit that the comedian, at age 81 and legally blind,ind, wasn’t likely offendnd again — and notedd he hadn’t been accuseded of assault since Constand’stand’s case.
“Becausee if it hasn’t happened in the last 14 years, howw far forward should we look?” Green asked.
Dudley replied, “I can-cannot predict withwith accu-accuracy, whenen a defendant would reoffend.”
Green went on to underscore that his “unsighted” client didn’t have the capability to gallivant around town picking up and drugging women.
“How is he expected to meet people?” Green barked.
“It is possible he has already met someone who could be a future victim,” Dudley replied coolly, prompting Cosby’s accusers in the gallery to turn and look at one another in shock.
Constand, 45, briefly took the stand after submitting to the judge a not-yet-public victim’s impact statement.
“The jury heard me, Mr. Cosby heard me, and now what I am asking for is justice as the court sees fit,” she said.
The court also heard from her parents, Gianna and Andrew, who recounted the torment the family has faced sisince the attack at Cosby’s Cos suburban Philadel-Phila phia home.
“Andy and I raraised our daughters to be respectful, kind humanman beings. The event that took placep in 2004 changed that path completely,” Gianna said.
“From the time my daughter opened up about the incident, our lives became a roller coaster ride that never came to an end.”
O’Neill will rule on Tuesday whether Cosby is a “sexually violent predator” — which would subject him to check-ins with cops and public notification, including his name, address, offense and photo — and then hand down a sentence.
O’Neill merged Cosby’s three felony counts into one earlier in the day, so the entertainer could be sentenced to no jail time or as much as 10 years.
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele also asked O’Neill to impose the maximum $25,000 fine and order Cosby to reimburse the state for the cost of his prosecutions.
“To say that he should get a pass because it’s taken this long to catch up to what he’s done, what they’re asking for is a getout-of-jail-free card,” Steele told O’Neill.
“He’s too old to drug somebody and stick his hand in her? I ask the court to reconsider that one.”