Alleged Cosby Victim Urges Nevada to Lift Statute of Limitations on Sexual Assault

By Ashwin Subramania - 14 Mar '15 13:54PM

Lise-Lott Lublin ,48, who claims to have been sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby decades ago, urged lawmakers in Nevada on Friday to lift the statute of limitations on sex assault. The provision currently prevents her from pursuing legal action against the famous comedian.

Lublin fought back tears when she narrated an incident in which she passed out after being given two alcoholic drinks by Cosby in a Las Vegas hotel in 1989. Talking about the incident the former model said, "He began stroking my hair and talking to me. This was the last moment I was conscious. Next memory, I woke up at home."

It was only when Lublin came to know about the several sexual allegations made by other women against Cosby, did she fully realize that something must have happened to her when she was unconscious.

When she tried to report the incident to the police, she was told that Cosby couldn't be charged since too much time had passed. Nevada law currently states that sexual assault cannot be filed after more than 4 years after the date of the incident.

Lublin added, "I will never see justice and didn't do anything wrong."

Jim Sweetin, Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney is in favour of dissolving the statute of limitations for sexual assault cases. He said, "There's embarrassment, there's fear, there's concern about what it might do to other members of the family, and the statute of limitations currently cuts off those individuals from any sort of justice."

Executive Director of The Rape Crisis Center, Daniele Drietzer also has shown her support for the Assembly Bill 212. She said, "It's just something that touches so many people in so many ways, we often don't realize how many victims there may be around us or work with us."

Other attorneys like Lisa Rasmussmen however feel it would be better to add extensions than to make it unlimited. She reasoned, "So our concern if this passes is that people will come forward and say this; 'So and so did this to me 35 years ago, 25 years ago, even 40 years ago. It's almost impossible to defend a case like that."