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Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault

By Reuters
27 April 2018   |   9:03 am
A Pennsylvania jury convicted comedian Bill Cosby on all three counts of drugging and molesting a onetime friend in 2004, a decisive victory for prosecutors in one of the first celebrity sexual-assault trials of the #MeToo era.

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