Bill Cosby was charged on Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman after plying her with drugs and alcohol in 2004, the only criminal case against a once-beloved entertainer whose father-figure persona has been marred by dozens of similar misconduct accusations.
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The powerhouse lawyer addressed the media in her Los Angeles offices hours after the embattled comedy legend was charged with the sexual assault of Andrea Constandt, who alleges that Cosby drugged and raped her in 2004.
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The criminal complaint and Constand’s attorney, Dolores Troiani, confirmed that the criminal charges relate to Constand’s case. Kevin Steele, Montgomery County’s first assistant district attorney, says that left the woman paralyzed and unable to respond to Cosby’s sexual advances – and that Cosby committed aggravated indecent assault.
Constand, who is now 42 and works as a massage therapist in her native Canada, is ready to face Cosby in court, Troiani said earlier this fall.
“Unfortunately, for most of the women who allege that they are victims of Mr. Cosby, it is too late for their allegations to be the subject of a criminal prosecution or a civil case because of the arbitrary and restrictive time limits set by law”, Allred said. The criminal statutes, unlike Pennsylvania and the other states in which these women were residents who were actually – were allegedly abused and assaulted, have expired. In it, Cosby acknowledged under questioning that he had obtained Quaaludes, a sedative that was a popular recreational drug in the 1970s, intending to give them to young women in order to have sex with them.
In Los Angeles, celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who represents more than two dozen Cosby accusers, pronounced the arrest “the best Christmas present they have ever received”.
About his encounter with Constand, Cosby said under oath that it was consensual and that he gave her some Benadryl, an anti-allergy medication, to relax her. Over the next three decades, the Philadelphia-born comic created TV’s animated “Fat Albert” and the top-rated “Cosby Show”, the 1980s sitcom celebrated as groundbreaking television for its depiction of a warm and loving black family headed by two professionals, one a lawyer, the other a doctor.
Ron Bull/AP Andrea Constand has accused Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting her in 2004.
That testimony became public this past summer, prompting new calls for charges against Cosby.
That opened the floodgates to even more allegations.
“The victim did not consent to any of these acts and reported that she was unable to move or speak and felt “frozen” and ‘paralysed, ‘” prosecutors said.
A former Temple University employee told police the comedian drugged and violated her at his home near Philadelphia.
Dickinson claimed she wanted to go public with her story in a 2002 autobiography but was prevented from doing so by the book’s publisher. And so I continue and I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection.
In interviews, Buress said his intention to not to “out” Cosby, but to make a joke about Cosby’s alleged hypocrisy.
Her lawyer has said Constand is gay and was dating a woman around the time she met Cosby in the early 2000s. She referred questions to Joseph Cammarata, a Washington-based attorney who is representing her in the MA defamation case that Tarshis and six other women filed against the comedian.
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“I’d like to see the rest of the women come out now”, McKee said.
