COSBY TOO OLD FOR PRISON, DEFENCE ARGUES

Declaring Bill Cosby doesn’t deserve a free pass because of his advanced age, prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to sentence the comedian to five to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, while the defence argued that he is too old and helpless to do time behind bars.

“What does an 81-yearold man do in prison?” defence attorney Joseph Green asked on Day 1 of the sentencing hearing for Cosby, who is legally blind. “How does he fight off the people who are trying to extort him, or walk to the mess hall?”

Green suggested that Cosby instead be put on something akin to house arrest.

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said that he has no doubt Cosby would commit another such offence if given the opportunity, warning that the TV star seemingly gets a sexual thrill out of slipping women drugs and assaulting them.

Cosby was convicted in April of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a Canadian and former Temple University women’s basketball administrator, at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004.

Judge Steven O’Neill is expected to sentence Cosby on Tuesday.