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avaistheone1

(14,626 posts)
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 03:26 PM Mar 2015

Bill Cosby Accuser In 2005 Case Reveals Details Of Alleged Assault

Source: Huffington Post

One of the Jane Doe witnesses in the 2005 sexual assault lawsuit against comedian Bill Cosby has come forward to share her story for the first time. Patricia, who is not releasing her last name, spoke to BuzzFeed News for an article published Tuesday about her alleged assault at Cosby's hands in 1978.

Patricia told the website that she met Cosby while she was a 22-year-old conference planner at the University of Massachusetts, which had invited the comedian as a featured speaker for an event. Upon learning she was a singer, Cosby allegedly offered to mentor her.

Cosby invited her to his home in Shelburne Falls, Mass., for a dinner party, she said, but when she arrived, she was the only guest. She said that Cosby gave her a mixed drink and asked her to act out various scenarios, including one in which she pretended "to be a queen with oatmeal on her face."

Buzzfeed reports:

Patricia blacked out and then came to in Cosby's guest bedroom, she said. She was naked, and Cosby was standing over her in a bathrobe. He told Patricia she had thrown up and passed out and that he'd had to wash her dress. He was even nice enough to offer her a toothbrush.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/03/bill-cosby-patricia_n_6792516.html



Cosby 'Jane Doe' accuser tells her story
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2015/03/03/cosby-jane-doe-accuser-tells-her-story/24310481/






Jane Doe: Patricia was one of more than a dozen women who anonymously testified against the comedian as part of a 2005 lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand (pictured above)
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George II

(67,782 posts)
1. Very strange set of circumstances...
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 03:57 PM
Mar 2015

...she said she was first assaulted in 1978, then it happened again in 1980? And then was a "witness" in a case that took place in a different state and city 25 years later?

Don't accuse me of being one of those who attacks the victim, but this just doesn't add up to me.

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
2. As is clear in the Buzzfeed story, she didn't remember a sexual assault after the '78 event.
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 04:27 PM
Mar 2015

She took him at his word that she had vomited and blacked out.

As for being a witness (no quotes needed) in the case in PA, lawyers know how to found witnesses who don't live in the same state.

You are attacking the victim when you state that it just doesn't add up for you.

pnwmom

(109,024 posts)
3. What is "strange" was Cosby's reported behavior, not the woman's. She didn't realize
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 05:31 PM
Mar 2015

what had happened to her the first time, which isn't "strange" at all when someone has been drugged.

And she was a "witness" in the later case because she testified about what happened to her years before -- helping to show that Cosby had a longstanding pattern of similar attacks on women.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
5. I'm struck by the sheer horrendous volume of the drugging incidents
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 12:10 AM
Mar 2015

Regardless of whether anyone wants to believe the incidents, they all have similar patterns and paint a disturbing picture of a person who was practically worshiped.

I always think it's bad when people put another human in a social place where they can do no wrong. That's usually when they do the most.

Locrian

(4,522 posts)
7. same here
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 12:35 PM
Mar 2015

The scope and the details of the manipulation etc are super creepy and disturbing. All the more so when compared against the public persona that was used as a tool in the manipulation.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
8. I think that's possibly the most disturbing thing about this
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 11:01 PM
Mar 2015

It's hard not to see his public persona as being crafted solely so he could have access to more women and girls, and then to have the cover to protect himself if they dared to accuse him of his actions. A true wolf in sheep's clothing. All of it premeditated, as well.

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
6. as a Cosby fan, I couldn't believe these stories at first
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 02:06 AM
Mar 2015

I mean, Dr. Huxtable a sexual abuser and serial exploiter of young women? but now the sheer weight of all the similar stories tilts my thinking the other way

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