Bill Cosby might be close to facing criminal sexual assault charges, if a newly elected prosecutor in Pennsylvania follows through on his pre-election vow to work to charge him.

According to The Huffington Post, earlier this week Democrat Kevin Steele was formally elected district attorney of Montgomery County, the same suburban town where Cosby's first named accuser filed a sex abuse complaint against him in 2005. Back then, the DA declined to file charges against the comedian, giving Steele until January to do so before the statute of limitations runs out.

"In some ways this case had gotten stronger in the last 10 years," said Matthew Galluzzo, a former sex crimes prosecutor and current defense lawyer in New York.

Since Andrea Constand lodged her complaint, more than 50 women have stepped forward to allege they too were drugged and sexually assaulted by the legendary comedian over a period that spans more than four decades.

Cosby has never been criminally charged in any of the incidents, though his reputation has taken a heavy hit, with several universities and institutions moving to strip him of various honorary awards he had received over the years.

According to Galluzzo, all the attention given to the case over the last year is likely to make it more difficult to find unbiased jurors to hear a potential case.

In a deposition taken in 2006 for a subsequent civil lawsuit filed by Constand and recently made public, Cosby admitted to routinely supplying women with drugs before sex over the years.

As many as 35 of his alleged victims recently posed for a New York Magazine cover story, in which they all openly recalled the horrors they allegedly suffered at the hands of the former "Cosby Show" dad.

Recently, Cosby was forced to submit to a seven hour deposition conducted by famed civil rights attorney Gloria Allred stemming from a civil suit filed against him by her client Judy Huth.