“America’s Dad’’-turned-sex fiend Bill Cosby was released from prison Wednesday afternoon — looking feeble but flashing a peace sign — hours after his sex-assault conviction was overturned in a stunning court ruling.
The 83-year-old disgraced TV legend was whisked from the State Correctional Institute-Phoenix in Montgomery County, Pa., northwest of Philadelphia, in a white small car and driven to his mansion in Elkins Park less than an hour away.
The ex-con, dressed in a maroon short-sleeve shirt and gray slacks with his white face mask on his chin, needed help getting out of the front passenger seat of the car when he arrived at his rustic, gated home, which is shrouded in trees, according to ABC-TV footage.
But Cosby mustered the strength to raise his right hand and give the peace sign to a news helicopter flying overhead, while a man helped him walk into the house, according to the video.
CBS footage from the ground showed Cosby being helped along the path to his stunning abode.
“This is justice — and justice for black America,” Cosby’s rep, Andrew Wyatt, said in a statement, according to MSNBC. “This is the justice Mr. Cosby has been fighting for.”
Wyatt, saying he was speaking on behalf of the family, added that “charges should never have been brought” against Cosby because of an immunity deal that the fallen star had struck with prosecutors decades before he was put on trial, CNN said.
“I want to thank the attorneys who successfully argued his appeal and especially Mrs. Cosby who stood strong and was here for Mr. Cosby every step of the way and supported every idea and strategy from the attorneys and the team and she always knew that Mr. Cosby was innocent,” Wyatt said, referring to Cosby’s long-suffering wife, Camille.
Cosby was freed from SCI-Phoenix after spending about two and a half years behind bars. He was sentenced to three to 10 years on three counts of aggravated indecent assault involving accuser Andrea Constand in 2004.
A Pennsylvania jury convicted the former loveable headliner of TV’s hit “The Cosby Show” in late September 2018.
At the time, the judge deemed Cosby a “sexually violent predator,” meaning he would have to report to authorities and receive counseling the rest of his life.
His first trial the year before ended in a hung jury. New York Post.