where cosby was represented by the chair of the temple board of trustees, in this newly unsealed deposition, bill cosby admitted that he developed relationships with women in order to pursue sex. he admitted that he gave quaaludes to women. but he insisted it was always consensual. and the pills were kind of a party drug, not the malicious tool of a sexual predator. bill cosby and his representatives have always denied all of these allegations. he has sued some of his accusers for defamation. this is the first time he s ever been charged with anything related to these accusations. his lawyer released a statement today, reading, quote, the charge by the montgomery county district attorney s office came as no surprise. filed 12 years after the alleged incident can coming on the heels of a hotly contested election for this county s d.a., during which the case was made the focal point. make no mistake, we intend to mount a vigorous defense against this unjustified charge, and we expect tha
he admitted to entire event of the he admitted to the victim s mother around admitted to police and admitted to the deposition releaseed released in about the entire incident there. is not much in dispute. we know the victim was at his home. we know the victim was provided pills. we also learned in the deposition that bill cosby gave quaalude pills to other female partners that he had and how he would pure pursue them and give them quaaludes and would not take quaaludes himself. isss consensual or not, and based on what has been provided, there is no doubt, you give me a jury of 12 people, there is no doubt that this sexual event was not consensual and bill cosby is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. leland: esther, when a woman is given these drugs quaaludes what they re called, they render you semiconsciousness, the victim
we grew up with this guy, america s dad. there s a saying, the brighter the star, the darker the demons. if this is true, this guy s got serious demons. you can see what s happening when he exited his suv, he s got the kane, he s holding on to the arm. the guy is 78 years old. but he s got the money to string it out there are a lot of consistencies in all of these allegations. they re very disturbing. so what he does is he grooms these women. he allegedly brings them in, i m going to coach you, get you auditions. fly you out to vegas, stay in a luxury lhotel room and wine you and dine you, here s some quaaludes, next thing you know they re unconscious and he s violating them. then he has these handlers and he has fixers and he has pimps. that s called a sexual predator. he pays people off so this was kind of an open secret in hollywood. from what i understand this was out in the public. and no one ever blew the whistle. so people should stand up and
what do you think that the new charges from this new information of the deposition in july this year made by andrea constand, and the d.a. saying today, that the pills and the quaaludes that cosby admits that he provided is a significant c factor, and including the wine here, but the victim saying in one form or another she was feeling frozen and paralyze and unable to move, which would have been unable for her to give consent? how significant is that? you need look no farther than the statute. it requires only penetration. digital penetration, and using the hand is going to suffice, and not actual is sexual intercourse. another part of the statute, one of the subsections is if that penetration happens while, and
reference to his engaging in this pattern of conduct, of drugging women through the use of quaaludes and then having sex with them when they were not in a position to consent. and similarly if he is convicted in this criminal case, those civil cases that so many of the women have brought they re likely to prevail, or they ll have a better chance of prevailing. everything is interrelated in this very complex case involving over 40 women. a lot of money at stake of course in those civil cases. christine, if i had asked you, you prosecuted sexual assault cases before. just for casual outside observers like myself, often in criminal cases past behaviors cannot be entered as evidence. partly to protect the defendant. in this case though as they re prosecuting the criminal charges, can they bring in other women to testify and say he did the same thing to me? i think they re going to to establish a pattern. i think they re going to be able to. quite frankly that s the