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Some of the 60 women who accused the entertainer of sexual misconduct spoke out after his Montgomery County verdict on Tuesday.

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00:00Following Bill Cosby's sentencing on Tuesday, in which the disgraced comedian was

00:03sentenced to three to ten years in state prison for drugging and sexually

00:06assaulting Andrea Constan, some of his other accusers spoke out about what the

00:10verdict meant to them.

00:11Syndra Ladd, a former entertainment executive who accused Cosby of raping her

00:15while she was passed out at her friend's house when she was 21, said she was

00:19grateful to hear the verdict.

00:21I always knew Bill Cosby was a violent sexual predator and now it's been

00:25officially confirmed by the court, Ladd said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

00:28Former model Janice Dickinson, who was present in the courthouse to witness Cosby

00:32sentencing on Tuesday, had accused Cosby of raping her in 1982 after giving her a

00:37pill for menstrual cramps, which instead rendered her motionless.

00:40Dickinson's attorney Lisa Bloom released a statement from her client which read,

00:44At a press conference organized by the Pennsylvania Office of Victim Advocate, accuser

00:57Lily Bernard said that she had found solace in the wake of Cosby's sentencing, while

01:01fellow accuser Lisa Lott-Lublin said she was free.

01:03I've moved on and I forgive him, Lott-Lublin said.

01:06He will never control my life.

01:07I have the strength to give him permission to ask me for my forgiveness for him.

01:11Accuser Cheelan Lasher added that she had waited 32 years for the day's verdict.

01:15I hope my nightmare will go away. He did not care how old I was, young and innocent,

01:19only 17 years old. Why should he receive mercy? Just because he's 81, she said.

01:24Meanwhile, the woman who has reported the earliest assault from Cosby, Sonny Wells, refused

01:28to forgive her alleged abuser in her statement.

01:30I hope that when you die, you go to the hell of your making, because this is precisely where

01:35you deserve to go for your sins and horrendous crimes against me and so many trusting

01:39lovely women, she said.

01:40Victoria Valentino, another accuser, concluded the press conference by commenting on the

01:44importance of the trial as a whole.

01:46The bottom line is this whole thing is so much bigger than Cosby, she said.

01:50This is about a woman's worth. This is about rape culture in our society.

01:53This is about the fact that we as women are not equal under the Constitution in 2018.

01:58In a statement submitted to the court, Consen said that almost 15 years after her assault,

02:03she is a middle-aged woman who's been stuck in a holding pattern where she was unable to

02:07heal fully or move forward.

02:08Referring to Cosby, she wrote,

02:10And Janice Baker Kinney, who accused Cosby of rape and testified during the trial, released

02:21a statement on Twitter thanking Cosby for rallying a group of wounded women to come together.

02:26You used your celebrity to victimize dozens upon dozens of women, including me, and your sense

02:30of entitlement and lack of remorse is astonishing, she wrote. Your arrogance sparked a movement

02:35that has grown to thousands of women, taking back their self-esteem and proudly standing up

02:40for what is morally right. So, thank you, Mr. Cosby.

02:43To read more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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