Bill Cosby will not face criminal charges over two alleged sexual assaults.<\/p>\n
The district attorney determined that the prosecution in two cases, one of which allegedly took place in 1965 when the victim was 17 years old,\u00a0were barred by the statute of limitations, the D.A.\u2019s office revealed in a statement.<\/p>\n
In US law the statute of limitations forbids people being charged for a crime that was allegedly committed over a certain number of years ago.<\/p>\n
The news\u00a0comes a week after Cosby was charged in Pennsylvania with sexually assaulting a woman in his home near Philadelphia after giving\u00a0her drugs in 2004.<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania case, which was filed just before the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution in that state was due to lapse, stems from allegations by a former Temple University employee, Andrea Constand, who settled a civil case against Cosby for an undisclosed sum in the year of 2006.<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania case marked the first and only criminal charged brought against the once-beloved entertainer whose father-figure persona has been marred by dozens of similar accusations, some dating back decades.<\/p>\n