Prosecutor declines to charge Cosby over sexual assault allegations
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney has declined to bring criminal charges against comedian Bill Cosby, stemming from sexual assault allegations by two women over separate incidents, one dating back to 1965 and the other to 2008, prosecutors said on Wednesday.The district attorney, Jackie Lacey, determined that prosecution was barred in the earlier case by the statute of limitations and in the latter case by insufficient evidence for a felony charge and the statute of limitations for misdemeanours, her office said in a statement.The Los Angeles ruling, which does not name the two accusers, comes a week after Mr Cosby was criminally charged in Pennsylvania with sexually assaulting a woman in his home near Philadelphia after plying her with drugs and alcohol in 2004.The woman in the earlier Los Angeles case said she was 17 when raped by Mr Cosby. The woman in the later case, who identified herself through an attorney as Chloe Goins, was 18 at the time she said she w...
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