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Bill Cosby sex assault sentencing hearing begins Monday

Bill Cosby, convicted in April of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004,could get anywhere from probation to 30 years in prison at his sentencing.
Credit: DOMINICK REUTER
Actor and comedian Bill Cosby departs after the first day of his retrial for his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania on April 9, 2018. (Photo credit should read DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images)

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby is facing the start of a sentencing hearing at which a judge will decide how to punish the 81-year-old trailblazing comedian who preyed on at least one young woman and perhaps many more.

Cosby was the first celebrity to go to trial in the #MeToo era and could be the first to go to prison after being convicted in April of drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University athletics employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.

At the end of the two-day hearing starting Monday, Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O'Neill could sentence Cosby to as many as 30 years in prison or send him home on probation.

The state guidelines for someone like Cosby, with no prior convictions, call for about one to four years behind bars.

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