The animator of “The View” Sunny Hostin was back in the audience room for the second day of the federal trial on sexual trafficking against the former Musical Sean “Diddy” Combres on Tuesday. But after seeing the testimony of the singer of R&B Cassie, Hostin has concerns.
In his appearance on the stand, the former girlfriend of Combs testified that he had mistreated, intimidated, constrained, sang and exploited sexually for years. In response to evidence that she has granted to acts that Combs asked her, Cassie – whose legal name is Cassandra Ventura – noted that “it is difficult to really decide what you need when he tells you what he wants.”
Hostin also noted that Ventura explained that she had stayed with Combs and had accepted activities for a decade “because when you like someone, you want to make them happy, and you don’t want to make them angry.”
“Now what I have seen, as a former prosecutor of sexual crimes, is a sexual grooming of a classic victim / survivor,” said Hostin. “He began to push his limits and trauma linked.”
That said, she admitted that when she watched the jury to see how they were dealing with the information, it didn’t seem promising.
“Looking at the jury, I also saw some of the jurors simply not understanding how she is not just off,” said Hostin. “And so I think that, for the accusation to prove this case – and it is a strongly male jury, there are 12 men and around 8 women, there are six substitutes – I think they should have an expert described and explains that this is what is happening in this kind of relationship.”
“Because I saw her clear as the day,” she continued. “I don’t think the average person would see it.”
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