VIDEO: Cosby Accuser Discusses His Sentencing on CBS THIS MORNING

By: Sep. 26, 2018
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Victoria Valentino, one of the 60 women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct, talked about Cosby's sentencing, and her emotions of seeing him get jail time for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, in an interview with CBS THIS MORNING broadcast live, today, on the CBS Television Network.

Valentino was in the Pennsylvania court Tuesday when Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison. He's the first major celebrity sent to prison in the MeToo era. She says she was 26 when Cosby assaulted her.

Excerpts:

ON NO APOLOGY FROM COSBY: Well, I don't think it will matter because, first of all, I believe he's sociopathic. He has no conscious therefore even if he apologized it wouldn't matter, it would just be an act. It would be something to engender sympathy from the public.

ON WHAT SHE FELT IN COURT: We were all shaking. All of us sister survivors were sitting in the back row holding hands and just waiting for the moment, waiting for the moment, waiting for the moment. And, then, of course, there were all these appeals and discussions and arguments and so finally when we did hear the sentencing it was almost anticlimactic.

HER THOUGHTS WHEN HE WAS IN COURT: Well, when he was brought out in handcuffs, his jacket was off and his baggy pants were being held up by suspenders and I had this moment of feeling sorry for him because he seemed sudden so frail and that arrogant, pompous, rather terrifying presence was no longer there.

But then I saw a smirk on his face. He still had that jokey smirk. But in the courtroom he was still delusionally thinking that he was going to get out on bail because when they registered him as a violent sexual predator and told him that he had to register in any city that he went to, he asked them, well, do I have to register if I'm just going to another city for the evening and staying overnight and then going back home? And that was when we realized he really thought up until the last that he was going to be out on bail and go home.

ON HER EMOTIONS TODAY: Well, particularly this morning I think I was running on adrenalin last night. And we were just talking about it and, you know, tying everything up and feeling VINDICATED and validated. And this morning I'm feeling really emotional. And I'm trying to process it, you know. I'm trying to understand why I'm feeling so emotional. And, of course, walking into the green room and all the newspapers with his picture. And the booking shots and everything. And then I just have to keep reminding myself how arrogant and how pompous and how entitled he was throughout all three trials, which I've been to.

WHAT THE COURT DECISION MEANS: It says that no matter how wealthy, powerful, how famous, you are not above the law.



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