Arrest warrant issued for Bill Cosby!!!

According to Daily mail online, an arrest warrant has been issued for Bill Cosby for the sexual assault of Andrea Constand.

Cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Constand at his mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania in January 2004 while she was an employee at Temple University.

above with wife Camille in New York City in November over the sexual assault of Andrea Constand

The 78-year-old comedian previously said under oath that he had consensual sexual contact with the woman.

A previous district attorney declined to charge Cosby in 2005.

Prosecutors reopened the case over the summer as damaging testimony was unsealed in a related civil lawsuit against Cosby and as dozens of other women came forward with similar accusations that made a mockery of his image as the wise and understanding Dr. Cliff Huxtable from TV's The Cosby Show.

Many of those alleged assaults date back decades, and the statute of limitations for bringing charges has expired in nearly every case. But Pennsylvania law gives prosecutors up to 12 years for some sex crimes, with the clock running out on this case in January. 

Constand, the former director of operations for Temple's women's basketball team and a one time college basketball star herself, launched her legal suit against Cosby, a man she called her 'mentor', in March 2005.

Now 42, she said she first met Cosby, a Temple alum, in November 2002 and the pair became friends and she was a frequent guest at dinner parties at his home. 

Authorities in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, followed up with an investigation, but in February 2005, they declined to press criminal charges due to a lack of evidence.

Cosby settled that sexual abuse lawsuit for undisclosed terms in 2006.

After the lawsuit became public earlier this year, Constand tweeted out 'YES!' followed soon after by 'SIR!'

Cosby meanwhile released his own statement. 

'The only reason Mr Cosby settled was because it would have been embarrassing in those days to put all those women on the stand and his family had no clue,' his camp said in a statement.

'That would have been very hurtful.' 

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