Proclaimed as “American’s Dad,” Bill Cosby, is looking more like “America’s Fraud.” Stemming from a 2004 case where Cosby sexually assaulted Temple University employee Andrea Constand with “pills and wine, then penetrating her with his fingers without her consent, while she was drifting in and out of consciousness, unable to resist or cry out.”
She was “frozen, paralyzed, unable to move,” Montgomery County District Attorney-elect Kevin Steele said. In court papers, prosecutors said the drugs were the cold medicine Benadryl or some other, unidentified substance. Steele noted that Cosby has admitted giving quaaludes to women he wanted to have sex with.
The TV star acknowledged under oath a decade ago that he had sexual contact with Constand but said it was consensual.
This charges happened to come right on time as the 12-year statue of limitations for bringing up charges was about to run out.
The case represents an about-face by the district attorney’s office, which under a previous DA declined to charge Cosby in 2005 when Constand first told police that the comic violated her by putting his hands down her pants at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Cheltenham.
Prosecutors reopened the case over the summer as damaging testimony was unsealed in Constand’s related civil lawsuit against Cosby and as dozens of other women came forward with similar accusations that made a mockery of his image as the wise and understanding Dr. Cliff Huxtable from TV’s “The Cosby Show.”
At that point, “reopening this case was not a question. Rather, reopening this case was our duty as law enforcement officers,” Steele said.
via: Yahoo
