TENNESSEE
Christian Today
Published 25 November 2014 | Carey Lodge
Despite allegations of rape and sexual assault, US actor Bill Cosby remains on the bill to speak at a Christian event next week.
He is to give an address at Freed-Hardeman University near Jackson, Tennessee on December 5. A Memphis advocacy group for victims of sexual assault is threatening to protest if it goes ahead.
Leader of the local chapter of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), David Brown, said: “If he does show up on December 5 to the auditorium, I’ll be out there protesting, and I won’t be alone.”
Brown sent a letter to the university in which he insisted that if Cosby is kept as the keynote speaker at the annual benefit dinner, “your fine university will hurt so many, and you will never know the harm that you have done.”
“I got a letter back saying, ‘Oh, we are glad you got healed from your problem; however, we are still going to go forward,'” Brown told wreg.com.
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