NORRISTOWN - The Canadian woman Bill Cosby sexually assaulted asked his sentencing hearing Tuesday for justice as the disgraced entertainer saw his maximum potential punishment reduced from 30 to 10 years.

The frail 81-year-old - once beloved as “America’s Dad” - became the first celebrity convicted of a sex crime in the #MeToo era, for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand, a former university basketball administrator, at his Philadelphia mansion in January 2004.

“All I’m asking for is justice as the court sees fit,” Constand told the court on the first of Cosby’s two-day sentence hearing in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

Around 60 women, many of them onetime aspiring actresses and models, publicly branded Cosby a calculating, serial predator who plied victims with sedatives and alcohol to bed them over four decades.

But the case involving the former Temple University employee turned massage therapist was the only one that happened recently enough to prosecute.

Her parents and sister also testified, recalling how traumatic Constand’s ordeal at the hands of Cosby had been for the entire family, with her mother suffering an aneurysm and being diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2015.

The once towering figure in late 20th century American popular culture was the first black actor to grace primetime US television.

Previously adored by millions for his defining role on “The Cosby Show,” he has been confined to his Philadelphia area mansion on a $1 million bail for nearly three years.

Cosby is now on his third lead lawyer since his arrest in December 2015, having parted ways with celebrity advocate Tom Mesereau after the guilty verdict.

Cosby’s first trial ended in June 2017 with a hung jury, hopelessly deadlocked after 52 hours of deliberations. - AP