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09:02, 28-Apr-2018
US judge orders GPS monitoring for house-bound Cosby
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Convicted sex offender
Bill Cosby was ordered Friday to be fitted with a GPS monitor, undergo a violent sexual predators' assessment and only be allowed to leave home for medical treatment or to meet his lawyers.
Judge Steven
O'Neill signed the order, clarifying the terms of the disgraced icon's one-million US dollar bail, one day after a Pennsylvania jury found Cosby guilty on
three counts of sexual assault.
The frail, 80-year-old Cosby – once beloved as "America's
Dad" – faces a sentence of up to 30 years for drugging and molesting
Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia mansion in January 2004.
The Bill Cosby’s star on the Hollywood Walk Fame is tagged
with a “Guilty on All 3 Counts!” papers in Los Angeles Thursday, April
26, 2018. /AP Photo
The Bill Cosby’s star on the Hollywood Walk Fame is tagged with a “Guilty on All 3 Counts!” papers in Los Angeles Thursday, April 26, 2018. /AP Photo
Prosecutors
on Thursday demanded his bail be revoked, arguing he was a flight risk
– but an irritated O'Neill refused to "simply lock him up right now."
The
judge confined Cosby to his palatial residence in Cheltenham, the same
home where the actor assaulted Constand 14 years ago, and instructed
probation officers to fit him with a GPS monitor.
Cosby can travel
only within the greater Philadelphia area, and solely for medical
treatment or to meet his legal team upon written request, O'Neill said.
The disgraced megastar's passport has already been impounded.
He
must also submit to an assessment by a sexual offenders board to
determine how much of a danger he poses, before being sentenced by
O'Neill in 75 days' time.
His conviction ends the career of a once
towering figure in late 20th century American popular culture, and the first
black actor to grace primetime US television, hitting the big time
after growing up as the son of a maid.
Cosby's lawyers have vowed to appeal.
Source(s): AFP