Scott Baio accuses Nicole Eggert of 'cyberstalking' after she tweets that she wishes 'he got the punishment Cosby did'
The bitterness between Scott Baio and Nicole Eggert continues.
Three months after the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office determined that the 58-year-old actor wouldn’t be charged over sexual assault allegations made by his Charles in Charles co-star — because the statute of limitations had expired — the pair are involved in a new feud on Twitter over the allegations. It began following Bill Cosby’s sentencing to three to 10 years in prison on Tuesday. Eggert, who has accused Baio of molesting her from the ages of 14 to 17, cheered the decision to send the Cosby Show star, who was convicted of sexual assault, to jail. She wrote that she wished the same thing had happened to her “abuser,” and that she’s glad California is eliminating the statute of limitations on prosecuting sex crimes.
So Bill Cosby gets jail time. Thank God one victim was within the SOL. So happy they are finally dropping the SOL 🙌🏼🙏🏼??
— Nicole Eggert (@NicoleEggert) September 25, 2018
He fell within the SOL. However the laws have now changed and any victim from now on is protected. The new law does not backdate but it is affective from here on out.
— Nicole Eggert (@NicoleEggert) September 25, 2018
U know it. My abuser is a white man. I call him out all day long. I wish he got the punishment Cosby did.
— Nicole Eggert (@NicoleEggert) September 25, 2018
While Eggert didn’t @ Baio or even use his name, he caught wind of her post and was on the attack. He noted the Cosby sentence gave her “an excuse to restart her false claims.”
Excuse to restart her false claims again that take away from real victims. https://t.co/N4arowzwVE
— Scott Baio (@ScottBaio) September 26, 2018
He also wrote that there should be “consequences” for “false claims & cyber stalking” and then corrected her for referring to his ethnicity as “white.”
Last time I checked…….I am 100% Latin. #Enough There should be consequences for false claims & cyber stalking. pic.twitter.com/Aea68BOYdV
— Scott Baio (@ScottBaio) September 26, 2018
He also retweeted a bunch of posts from his supporters that called Eggert a variety of different insults, including “psychotic.”
Amid the #MeToo Movement, Eggert accused Baio of molesting her in the ’80s, beginning when she was 14 and he was 25. She made the claim in January and filed a police report in February. She said on Megyn Kelly Today that the abuse “happened quite often” at Baio’s house — more than 10 times and about once a week. She accused him of groping, fondling, touching, and kissing her. Another Charles in Charge co-star, Alexander Polinsky, also said Baio exposed his genitals on the set. However, in June, prosecutors said they wouldn’t be pursuing the case because “the applicable statute of limitations to the crimes alleged by the victim have expired. Thus, the case is declined.”
Wait for it…dismissed on Statutes of Limitation…NEVER bcz of LACK OF EVIDENCE!! Case closed molester @scottbaio
— Nicole Eggert (@NicoleEggert) June 19, 2018
Baio, who was already a big star before Charles in Charge due to the success of Happy Days, maintained from the start that he was innocent and that he and Eggert were “never” alone together on the set. “I don’t know if you’ve ever been on a sitcom set, but on any given day … there’s teachers, parents, family, crew, producers, my dad,” he said on Good Morning America. “So how any of this could have happened is absolutely impossible.” In August, he held a press conference to announce he had taken and passed five polygraph tests to refute Eggert’s claims.
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