Fitted with ankle bracelet, Cosby to be prisoner inside home

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Two days after his conviction, Bill Cosby has already started life as an inmate – though his surroundings are far nicer than they likely will be in a few months.

A judge says Cosby will be confined to the same suburban Philadelphia mansion where jurors concluded he drugged and molested a Temple University women’s basketball administrator, ordering him to be outfitted with a GPS ankle bracelet to monitor compliance. Until sentencing, Judge Steven O’Neill ruled Friday, the 80-year-old comedian may leave his house only to meet with his lawyers or go to the doctor, and he must get permission first.

It was the latest sign that Cosby’s past – a sordid double life that gave lie to his carefully cultivated image as America’s Dad – had finally caught up with him.

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