When an animal is backed into a corner it will often strike back aggressively, which I guess is also true for disgraced sexual predators.

Bill Cosby has countersued seven of the women who accused him of sexual assault and rape, claiming defamation in a lawsuit filed yesterday. Here’s what Cosby’s attorney Monique Pressley had to say to USA Today:

“Mr. Cosby states plainly that he neither drugged nor sexually assaulted the defendants and that each defendant has maliciously and knowingly published multiple false statements and accusations from Fall 2014 through the current day in an effort to cause damage to Mr. Cosby’s reputation and to extract financial gains”…

Pressley’s statement adds that the “false…opportunistic” allegations have caused Cosby to suffer loss of jobs and “mortification.”

Innocent until proven guilty, I get that, but when there are more than 50 women with strikingly similar stories you begin to see something of a pattern developing. Attorney Gloria Allred, who represents some of the woman that have sued Bill in Massachusetts, countered with this:

“Bill Cosby appears to be going to war against women who have sued him in Massachusetts and who allege that he has victimized [sic] them,” she tells USA TODAY. “Although I do not represent the women in that case, I do believe that in general such a tactic will not deter courageous women from fighting the battle against him.”

Just get this man in court to face his accusers, it seems ludicrous that this has yet to take place.

[source:usatoday]