AP: Cosby said 'he drugged women...'

[DrLeftover]

7 July

Cosby said he got drugs to give women for sex

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby admitted in 2005 that he got quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with, and that he gave the sedative to at least one woman and "other people," according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

That woman and a second woman testified in the same case that they knowingly took quaaludes from him, according to the unsealed documents.

The AP had gone to court to compel the release of the documents from the deposition in a sexual abuse lawsuit filed by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand — the first of a cascade of sexual abuse lawsuits against him. Cosby's lawyers had objected on the grounds that it would embarrass their client.

Cosby settled that lawsuit under confidential terms in 2006. His lawyers in the Philadelphia case did not immediately return phone calls Monday. Constand consented to be identified but did not want to comment, her lawyer said Monday.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6d90...sbreak-cosby-said-he-got-drugs-give-women-sex

 

[Jazzy]

he gave the sedative to at least one woman and "other people," according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

That woman and a second woman testified in the same case that they knowingly took quaaludes from him, according to the unsealed documents.

Where's the part where he forced the women to take them?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Do you think the women willingly took these drugs that would knock them out?

 

[McConnaughay]

Do you think the women willingly took these drugs that would knock them out?

Possibly.

Quaaludes were very popular in the 1970s, which could easily be about the time that Cosby discovered them, given his age. Frankly, people use them to relax and it produces a strong, euphoric high. The idea is that he used them to put women into a drowsy state so they could be taken advantage of, and while that's most likely the case, to answer your question, yes, I think there's a possibility they would take them because people will and have taken them them willingly before.

This doesn't exonerate Bill Cosby, of course.