Cosby vows no remorse, blames D.A., judge
Cosby considers his conviction the work of “a low-life district attorney and a corrupt judge.”
PHILADELPHIA >> Bill Cosby says he “will never have remorse” for the sexual encounter that sent him to prison because he considers his conviction the work of “a low-life district attorney and a corrupt judge.”
Cosby’s stance could leave him to serve the high end of a three- to 10-year prison term since sex offenders often must show remorse to win parole.
Spokesman Andrew Wyatt says Cosby is prepared to stay in prison rather than apologize for a 2004 encounter he considers consensual.
Cosby is serving his sentence at SCI-Phoenix, the state prison in Skippack, where he was recently moved to the general population after several months in special housing where he spent time getting acclimated, a prison spokeswoman said.
He still has inmates assigned to help him throughout the day, given his age and disability.
Cosby in a statement calls himself a political prisoner in keeping with Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
Wyatt says the legally blind, 81-year-old actor dictated the statement for NBCTV to his wife Camille during a phone call Tuesday night from a suburban Philadelphia prison.
A Montgomery County jury convicted Cosby on April 26, 2018, of aggravated indecent assault of Andrea Constand, 45, at his mansion in 2004.
Judge Steven O’Neill handed down the sentence in September and immediately ordered the entertainer to prison.
It was reported last week that Cosby hasn’t had any visits from family four months after arriving at the state prison.