Also, in an emotional essay published early Wednesday, Cosby’s youngest daughter Evin defended the entertainer. In a statement, which can be read in its entirety on BlackPressUSA.com, Evin, 40, questioned the veracity of the allegations against her father. They have worked through it and moved on, and I am glad they did for them and for our family” 
 
 Cosby, 79, is charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple employee Andrea Constand, now 44, at his Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, mansion in January 2004. Together, Wyatt and Cosby said they grew comfortable that the NNPA Newswire would be more interested in “facts over sensationalism.” 
 
 Cosby has shunned most media inquiries, since allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced in late 2014; some of those accusations dated back almost fifty years. About two years ago, he awoke two years ago and said to his wife, Camille, “I can’t see,” he told the outlet. “I hope that day will come,” he told the outlet. I have some routines and storytelling that I am working on," Cosby told the National Newspaper Publishers Association. I think about walking out on stage somewhere in the United States of America and sitting down in a chair and giving the performance that will be the beginning of the next chapter of my career.” 
 
 Cosby declined to discuss the current sexual assault case against him but Evin did not shy away from the topic in her essay. Evin Cosby Bryan Bedder/Getty 
 
 “The public persecution of my dad, my kids’ grandfather, and the cruelty of the media and those who speak out branding my father a ‘rapist’ without ever knowing the truth and who shame our family and our friends for defending my dad makes all of this so much worse for my family and my children,” she wrote. There is something about someone saying, ‘I didn’t know that,’ that could cause a change in that person’s thinking.” 
 
 Cosby said he thinks about his illustrious career that, at least for now, has been placed on hold because of the court cases. "The harsh and hurtful accusations…that supposedly happened 40 or 50 years ago, before I was born, in another lifetime, and that have been carelessly repeated as truth without allowing my dad to defend himself and without requiring proof, has punished not just my dad but every one of us," she wrote. “Punishing people before they’re convicted in court only seems accurate when it serves a media narrative that doesn’t hurt a specific demographic,” Robinson said. On the same day that Ennis was murdered, a woman came out claiming that my father had a “love child.” She was arrested for extortion. It’s been more than two years since the embattled, television and film legend, who was once known as “America’s Dad,” has spoken out publicly. They have punished the talented people who were still earning money and feeding their families from my dad’s shows and work.
– Bill Cosby's daughter insists her father "loves and respects women" in an essay published in his defense on NNPA Newsire Wednesday. Evin Cosby, the youngest of Cosby's five children, recalls how her father always wanted the family to be close and says she had a wonderful childhood. She slams the "public persecution" of her father and the media's "cruelty," insisting that the stories of sexual assault Cosby's accusers are telling don't "match up" and were never investigated, yet "they have been accepted as the truth." She says supporters who tried to defend Cosby "were pressured to shut up" and that the media didn't publish their support, and insists Cosby has been deemed guilty even though his trial for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand has not yet started. "My dad, like anyone in this country, deserves to be treated fairly under the law," she writes. "My dad broke barriers and raised the conscious [sic] of America on important topics, especially for the advancement of women." She does acknowledge he had affairs, but says he never raped anyone and those affairs are "between him and my mother," who have worked things out and moved on. In a separate interview with NNPA Newsire, which NBC News describes as "a consortium of black-owned newspapers," Cosby himself speaks out, though not much about the case specifically. He did say that his career is on hold for now due to the scandal, but that he hopes to perform again someday. Cosby, 79, also said that he is now completely blind. Jury selection in Cosby's trial begins May 22, and the trial is set to start June 5, People reports.