President Obama has voiced out on the issues surrounding veteran humor act, Bill Cosby, who is been charged with drugging and raping women.
During a news conference yesterday Wednesday July 15, the president didn't speak on any specific allegations surrounding the actor, but he emphasized that ''no civilized nation should condone rape or rapists''.
Obama also rejected the call to revoke Bill Cosby's presidential medal of freedom that was awarded him by George W. Bush in 2002.
"There's no precedent for revoking a medal. We don't have that mechanism," he said.
He reiterated that having sex with someone without his or her consent is rape, which should not be tolerated in any society.
"If you give a woman, or a man, for that matter, without his or her knowledge a drug, and then have sex with that person without consent, that's rape," he said. "And I think this country, any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape."
Court documents obtained by associated press reveals that, Cosby admitted under oat in 2005, to obtaining Quaaludes and giving it to the women with whom he wanted to have sex with. The documents do not say if the women wanted to be druged.
More than two dozen women in the last four decades, have accused the actor of sexual misconduct towards them, and forcefully giving them drugs.
77 year old Bill Cosby who has never been charged with a crime, has acknowledge some of the allegations levied at him, while denying others.
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