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Bill Cosby sued by woman who says he molested her when she was 15

In a new lawsuit, a Southern California woman says Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974.

By Kate Stanton
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A 55-year-old woman in Southern California filed a lawsuit with the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday, claiming that Bill Cosby sexually molested her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 15.

Judy Huth is seeking unspecified damages for sexual battery and emotional distress.

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Cosby has faced a number of similar allegations in recent weeks, but Huth is the first woman to say she was a minor when the alleged assault took place. Huth is also the first woman to file a lawsuit regarding sexual assault allegations against the comedian since Andrea Constand in 2005.

According to the lawsuit, Huth says that she and a 16-year-old friend met Cosby at Lacy Park in San Marino, Calif., in 1974.

Cosby allegedly invited them to a tennis club, where he served them alcohol, and then to Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. Huth says that Cosby asked her and her friend to say they were 19.

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The suit reads:

While at the Playboy Mansion, plaintiff told Cosby that she needed to use the bathroom. Cosby directed her to a bathroom within a bedroom suite near the game room. When plaintiff emerged from the bathroom, she found Cosby sitting on the bed. He asked her to sit beside him. He then proceeded to sexually molest her by attempting to put his hand down her pants, and then taking her hand in his hand and performing a sex act on himself without her consent.

The suit claims that Huth only came to understand the extent of her "psychological injuries and illnesses" in the last three years, which means that her case would fall within California's statute of limitations on sexual assault.

Cosby's legal team has yet to respond to the lawsuit, but his attorney Martin Singer said in a recent statement that "brand new claims about alleged decades-old events are becoming increasingly ridiculous."

There has never been a shortage of lawyers willing to represent people with claims against rich, powerful men, so it makes no sense that not one of these new women who just came forward for the first time now ever asserted a legal claim back at the time they alleged they had been sexually assaulted.

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