A man who claims former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky abused him as a teen will have a court hearing in October in his efforts to force state prosecutors to file criminal charges.
The now-43-year-old man last month appealed the state attorney general’s decision not to file a criminal complaint against Sandusky. The man met with state prosecutors in April, and was told the 1988 allegations were too old under the statute of limitations. But the man says changes to the statute of limitations in 2002 and 2006 should permit the charges now.
Sandusky’s attorney says Sandusky denies molesting the man at a football camp on the Penn State campus. Sandusky’s accuser was 16 then.
The Centre Daily Times reports an Oct. 22 hearing has been set.
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Tuesday morning Jared Fogle’s home outside Indianapolis was raided by FBI and Indiana State Police who had a warrant relating to a child pornography investigation, according to multiple reports.
In April, Russell Taylor, head of Fogle’s eponymous charity, The Jared Foundation, was arrested on charges of possessing and producing child pornography.
Investigators found more than 400 videos in Taylor’s Indianapolis home. Some of the confiscated footage allegedly showed children being secretly filmed in bedrooms and bathrooms of Taylor’s home, federal prosecutors said.
Jared Fogle said that he immediately terminated ties with Taylor after his arrest. Subway has always maintained that the company never had any ties to Fogle’s Foundation or with Taylor.
Subway made a brief statement on Tuesday afternoon:
“We are shocked about the news and believe it is related to a prior investigation of a former Jared Foundation employee. We are very concerned and will be monitoring the situation closely. We don’t have any more details at this point.”
Despite the disavowal of Taylor’s alleged criminal activities, the reality is that Taylor had been Executive Director and the sole employee of the Jared Foundation for seven years prior to his arrest. The Foundation has the expressed mission:
Our mission is to eliminate Childhood Obesity by raising awareness and developing programs that educate and inspire kids to live healthier, happier lives.
While the Foundation has not been implicated in any way in the police investigation, there is a lingering question of whether to alleged abuse of children in Taylor’s own home may have been facilitated or supported by his full-time job running a children’s charity.
This story echoes of Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant coach of Penn State, and the Second Mile charity. The charity, founded by Sandusky in 1977, had grown to serve about 100,000 children and youth each year. After Sandusky was charged and convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse, the charity shut down.
Ending obesity, one of the nation’s most celebrated health campaigns, was a perfect cause for Fogle who famously lost 245 pounds eating Subway sandwiches. Perhaps the publicity will raise awareness about child sexual abuse, a topic still taboo and painful, but is tragically common in this country. Researchers on crimes against children estimate that 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys are victims of child sexual abuse in the U.S.
Most children’s nonprofits require background checks and child abuse clearances and stories of abuse are extremely rare. However, this unpleasant investigation is a jarring reminder that child abuse is pervasive and it’s hard to determine where the safe harbors lie.
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It was not that long ago when a father called me to ask me for help to care for his son. His 18-year-old son, who while, a student in a yeshiva, was hospitalized for a suicide attempt. He was going to bring him home and wanted me to help heal him. The background he gave me was that his son was learning in the school and had told one his rabbis that he had homosexual feelings. The rabbi referred him to a doctor who “repaired” men of their gay feelings through radical therapies and hormone injections. The student, as a gesture toward his rabbi and a desire for acceptance, endured the “conversion treatment” for a few months. In that time, he had become increasingly despondent and suicidal. The father of this young man said,”I want a living son who is gay, not a dead son.”
Virtually all health and mental health organizations have determined that there is no treatment for homosexuality because being gay is simply not a disorder. Being gay is part of the human condition. Most individuals are heterosexual some are not. The evidence has been mounting for decades that sexual orientation is likely inborn. Despite the fact that there are still health care professionals who believe that homosexuality is caused by having a mother who is too protective or an absent father or having been abused in childhood there is no evidence whatsoever to support these or similar facile conjectures. Individuals may choose how to deal with their sexual orientations but they cannot benefit from deceptive help to change it.
If a therapist or doctor is accused of doing reparative therapy, that is, pretending to have a treatment that will alter or convert a person’s sexual orientation, that practitioner is committing malpractice and runs the risk of losing their license to practice. I have spoken with several attorneys who specialize in malpractice cases. They were unanimous in stating that if a health care professional is accused of trying to change a patient’s sexual orientation their malpractice carriers will likely not defend them should the case go to court.
Not only will they have no legal protection for their license but there are other legal consequences. A recent civil case in New Jersey is a clear indication for this and offers an apparent civil precedent to this as well. The JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing) case recently ended finding in favor of the plaintiffs (http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-groups-gay-conversion-therapy-is-fraud-jury-says/). JONAH, a referral organization for those seeking to be “healed” of their homosexuality was found by a jury to be guilty of consumer fraud and “unconscionable business practices” for attempting to “heal” young men of their homosexuality.
The JONAH cases almost concurrent conclusion with the US Supreme Court ruling in favor of Gay marriage set a certain group of religious professionals ablaze. Chicken Little became their model, seeing the end of civilization as we know it. Without a careful reading of the Court’s findings or a willingness to understand the scientific literature on sexuality it might seem that society is telling us to all become homosexual or at least bisexual. But that is simply untrue. The Court stated plainly that all people are given equal protection under the law. This is not a religious or belief ruling it is a legal one based on the Courts understanding of the Constitution of the United States. It in no way requires religious believers to alter their spiritual or pious devotion.
Additionally, the JONAH case simply found what should have been anticipated – snake oil salespersons are committing fraud. Treatments do not exist for disorders that are not disorders.
Health care professionals treating individuals with homosexual desires that are having difficulty coping with these desires are not prevented from doing so. They are prevented from claiming to be able to change sexual attractions and trying to do so. Any individual suffering from anxiety or depression because he or she has a same sex attraction and feels unaccepted in their community can receive psychotherapy for those issues. Many therapists have dealt with these issues along with people who choose to remain celibate or who marry simply to maintain a community façade but have sexual relations with homosexual partners.
There is however a significantly broader issue that we must be willing to address. Homosexuals are people deserving of respect, no less than any other person. What goes on behind closed doors is none of our business. We will likely be seeing gay couples joining our communities in a more open manner. We should develop a protocol for acceptance. We really have no option. They are not ill, they do not need to be healed, nor do they need repair or sexual conversion. They are people simply trying to cope with the vagaries of a life defined by their humanity – nothing more.
Full article: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/sexuality-cannot-be-healed/
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More allegations against Bill Cosby have emerged, this time from the comedian himself. In sworn court testimony from a 2005 sexual abuse lawsuit that was unsealed yesterday, Cosby admitted to having obtained prescription sedatives with the intention of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with. The documents were unsealed Monday, after the Associated Press went to court to compel their release.
In the deposition, lawyer Dolores M. Troiani asked Cosby, “When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?”
“Yes,” Cosby answered.
Here & Now’ Jeremy Hobson talks to Marci Hamilton, professor at Cardozo Law School and an expert in statute of limitations involving sexual assault, about what the the legal ramifications could be for Cosby, and the more than two dozen women who have accused him of sexual assault.
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The Los Angeles Police Department is conducting at least one current criminal investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Bill Cosby, the department tells NPR’s Mandalit del Barco.
“LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has said his department would investigate any sexual assault accusations against Bill Cosby — even past the statute of limitations,” Mandalit reports. “The department’s public information officer, Det. Meghan Aguilar, told NPR that the police have at least one open criminal investigation that may have multiple accusations. The LAPD would not offer any more details because the case is ongoing.”
Bill Cosby participates in the Black Belt Community Foundation’s March for Education on May 15 in Selma, Ala.
THE TWO-WAY
The Cosby Revelation: How A Decade-Old Deposition Came To Light
The news comes on the heels of new revelation that Cosby, 77, had said during a deposition in 2005 “that he obtained the sedative Quaalude with the intent of giving the drug to women with whom he wanted to have sex,” as NPR’s Krishnadev Calamur reported Monday.
Accusations of sexual misconduct against Cosby have increased dramatically in the past year; dozens of women have now come forward to say he assaulted them. In some instances, the allegations date back decades.
In the most serious cases, Cosby, 77, is accused of drugging and raping the women. The entertainer has settled previous allegations against him. He has never faced criminal charges over the claims.
Cosby’s admissions in the now-public deposition give new validation to those claims, Cardozo Law School professor Marci Hamilton tells NPR’s Here & Now.
Hamilton adds, “on the other hand, for the vast majority of these women, they have no legal option — because the statute of limitations has already expired.”
But Hamilton also said, “What we’re all waiting for, is for the younger victims to come forward who would be in-statute in a particular state. It’s unlikely that someone who operates the way that Cosby apparently did stopped at any particular age. So I assume those victims are out there and we’ll see that happen.”
Cosby’s statement came to light after the Associated Press sought the release of court documents related to a lawsuit filed against him by a former Temple University employee.
A judge unsealed the deposition for several reasons — including because he says Cosby is a public figure who has spoken out about moral issues including family life and crime.
Bill Cosby admitted in 2005 that he acquired Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women with whom he wanted to have sex 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 that case that they knowingly took Quaaludes from him, according to the unsealed documents.
The AP went to court to compel the release of the documents from the deposition in a sexual abuse lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand, a former employee of Temple University in Philadelphia — the first of a cascade of sexual abuse lawsuits against him. Cosby’s lawyers objected on the grounds that it would embarrass their client.
Bill Cosby resigns from Temple University board
‘I have always wanted to do what would be in the best interests of the university,’ says star, facing sex assault claims
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.
More than two dozen women have accused Cosby, 77, of sexual misconduct, including allegations by many of them that he drugged and raped them, in incidents dating back more than four decades. He has never been criminally charged, and statutes of limitations apply to most of the accusations.
Lawyer Gloria Allred says she hopes to use Cosby’s newly unsealed testimony from 2005 in other court cases against the comedian.
She said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday evening that “this confirms the allegations of numerous victims who have alleged that he had used drugs to sexually assault them.”
She says “this admission is one that Mr. Cosby has attempted to hide from the public for many years and we are very gratified that it is now being made public.”
The lawyer for model Janice Dickinson says “now we know why” Bill Cosby has failed to appear for a deposition in her defamation lawsuit against him.
Dickinson sued him in May, saying denials made by the comedian’s representatives after she accused him last year of raping her in 1982 were defamatory.
Given his testimony in 2005, lawyer Lisa Bloom said in a statement Monday evening, “how dare he publicly vilify Ms. Dickinson and accuse her of lying when she tells a very similar story?”
Cosby, giving testimony in the lawsuit, which accused him of sexual assaulting Constand at his home in Pennsylvania in 2005, said he got seven Quaalude prescriptions in the 1970s. Constand’s lawyer Dolores M. Troiani asked if he had kept the sedatives through the 1990s — after they were banned — but was frustrated by objections from Cosby’s lawyer.
“When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?” Troiani asked on Sept. 29, 2005.
“Yes,” Cosby answered.
“Did you ever give any of these young women the Quaaludes without their knowledge?” Troiani asked.
Cosby’s lawyer again objected, leading Troiani to petition the federal judge to force Cosby to cooperate.
Cosby later said he gave Constand three half-pills of Benadryl, although Troiani in the documents voices doubt that was the drug involved. The two women who testified on Constand’s behalf said they knowingly took Quaaludes.
Three of the women accusing Cosby of sexually assaulting them have a defamation lawsuit pending against him in Massachusetts. They allege that he defamed them when his agents said their accusations were untrue. He is trying to have their case thrown out before discovery.
Lawyer Joe Cammarata represents one of the Massachusetts accusers. He says the use of drugs during sex has been a “recurring theme of the women’s allegations.” He says the documents unsealed appear to support their claims.
Cosby fought the AP’s efforts to unseal the testimony, with his lawyer George M. Gowen III arguing the deposition could reveal details of Cosby’s marriage, sex life and prescription drug use.
“It would be terribly embarrassing for this material to come out,” Gowen argued in June. He said the public should not have access to what Cosby was forced to say as he answered questions under oath from the accuser’s lawyer nearly a decade ago.
“Frankly … it would embarrass him. It would also prejudice him in eyes of the jury pool in Massachusetts,” Gowen said.
U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno asked last month why Cosby was fighting the release of his testimony, given that the accusations in Constand’s lawsuit were already in the public eye.
“Why would he be embarrassed by his own version of the facts?” Robreno said.
Cosby’s lawyers have not returned messages seeking comment.
Cosby resigned in December from the board of trustees at Temple, where he was the popular face of the Philadelphia school in advertisements, fundraising campaigns and commencement speeches.
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Date set for man seeking private complaint against Jerry Sandusky, The Associated Press
/in Uncategorized /by SOL ReformA man who claims former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky abused him as a teen will have a court hearing in October in his efforts to force state prosecutors to file criminal charges.
The now-43-year-old man last month appealed the state attorney general’s decision not to file a criminal complaint against Sandusky. The man met with state prosecutors in April, and was told the 1988 allegations were too old under the statute of limitations. But the man says changes to the statute of limitations in 2002 and 2006 should permit the charges now.
Sandusky’s attorney says Sandusky denies molesting the man at a football camp on the Penn State campus. Sandusky’s accuser was 16 then.
The Centre Daily Times reports an Oct. 22 hearing has been set.
Date set for man seeking private complaint against Jerry Sandusky _ PennLive
Caroline Leopold, Subway’s Jared Fogle, founder of kid’s health charity, under investigation, Med City News
/in Uncategorized /by SOL ReformTuesday morning Jared Fogle’s home outside Indianapolis was raided by FBI and Indiana State Police who had a warrant relating to a child pornography investigation, according to multiple reports.
In April, Russell Taylor, head of Fogle’s eponymous charity, The Jared Foundation, was arrested on charges of possessing and producing child pornography.
Investigators found more than 400 videos in Taylor’s Indianapolis home. Some of the confiscated footage allegedly showed children being secretly filmed in bedrooms and bathrooms of Taylor’s home, federal prosecutors said.
Jared Fogle said that he immediately terminated ties with Taylor after his arrest. Subway has always maintained that the company never had any ties to Fogle’s Foundation or with Taylor.
Subway made a brief statement on Tuesday afternoon:
“We are shocked about the news and believe it is related to a prior investigation of a former Jared Foundation employee. We are very concerned and will be monitoring the situation closely. We don’t have any more details at this point.”
Despite the disavowal of Taylor’s alleged criminal activities, the reality is that Taylor had been Executive Director and the sole employee of the Jared Foundation for seven years prior to his arrest. The Foundation has the expressed mission:
Our mission is to eliminate Childhood Obesity by raising awareness and developing programs that educate and inspire kids to live healthier, happier lives.
While the Foundation has not been implicated in any way in the police investigation, there is a lingering question of whether to alleged abuse of children in Taylor’s own home may have been facilitated or supported by his full-time job running a children’s charity.
This story echoes of Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant coach of Penn State, and the Second Mile charity. The charity, founded by Sandusky in 1977, had grown to serve about 100,000 children and youth each year. After Sandusky was charged and convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse, the charity shut down.
Ending obesity, one of the nation’s most celebrated health campaigns, was a perfect cause for Fogle who famously lost 245 pounds eating Subway sandwiches. Perhaps the publicity will raise awareness about child sexual abuse, a topic still taboo and painful, but is tragically common in this country. Researchers on crimes against children estimate that 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys are victims of child sexual abuse in the U.S.
Most children’s nonprofits require background checks and child abuse clearances and stories of abuse are extremely rare. However, this unpleasant investigation is a jarring reminder that child abuse is pervasive and it’s hard to determine where the safe harbors lie.
Subway’s Jared Fogle, founder of kid’s health charity, under investigation – MedCity NewsMedCity News
Michael J. Salamon, Sexuality Cannot be Healed, The Times of Israel
/in New York /by SOL ReformIt was not that long ago when a father called me to ask me for help to care for his son. His 18-year-old son, who while, a student in a yeshiva, was hospitalized for a suicide attempt. He was going to bring him home and wanted me to help heal him. The background he gave me was that his son was learning in the school and had told one his rabbis that he had homosexual feelings. The rabbi referred him to a doctor who “repaired” men of their gay feelings through radical therapies and hormone injections. The student, as a gesture toward his rabbi and a desire for acceptance, endured the “conversion treatment” for a few months. In that time, he had become increasingly despondent and suicidal. The father of this young man said,”I want a living son who is gay, not a dead son.”
Virtually all health and mental health organizations have determined that there is no treatment for homosexuality because being gay is simply not a disorder. Being gay is part of the human condition. Most individuals are heterosexual some are not. The evidence has been mounting for decades that sexual orientation is likely inborn. Despite the fact that there are still health care professionals who believe that homosexuality is caused by having a mother who is too protective or an absent father or having been abused in childhood there is no evidence whatsoever to support these or similar facile conjectures. Individuals may choose how to deal with their sexual orientations but they cannot benefit from deceptive help to change it.
If a therapist or doctor is accused of doing reparative therapy, that is, pretending to have a treatment that will alter or convert a person’s sexual orientation, that practitioner is committing malpractice and runs the risk of losing their license to practice. I have spoken with several attorneys who specialize in malpractice cases. They were unanimous in stating that if a health care professional is accused of trying to change a patient’s sexual orientation their malpractice carriers will likely not defend them should the case go to court.
Not only will they have no legal protection for their license but there are other legal consequences. A recent civil case in New Jersey is a clear indication for this and offers an apparent civil precedent to this as well. The JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing) case recently ended finding in favor of the plaintiffs (http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-groups-gay-conversion-therapy-is-fraud-jury-says/). JONAH, a referral organization for those seeking to be “healed” of their homosexuality was found by a jury to be guilty of consumer fraud and “unconscionable business practices” for attempting to “heal” young men of their homosexuality.
The JONAH cases almost concurrent conclusion with the US Supreme Court ruling in favor of Gay marriage set a certain group of religious professionals ablaze. Chicken Little became their model, seeing the end of civilization as we know it. Without a careful reading of the Court’s findings or a willingness to understand the scientific literature on sexuality it might seem that society is telling us to all become homosexual or at least bisexual. But that is simply untrue. The Court stated plainly that all people are given equal protection under the law. This is not a religious or belief ruling it is a legal one based on the Courts understanding of the Constitution of the United States. It in no way requires religious believers to alter their spiritual or pious devotion.
Additionally, the JONAH case simply found what should have been anticipated – snake oil salespersons are committing fraud. Treatments do not exist for disorders that are not disorders.
Health care professionals treating individuals with homosexual desires that are having difficulty coping with these desires are not prevented from doing so. They are prevented from claiming to be able to change sexual attractions and trying to do so. Any individual suffering from anxiety or depression because he or she has a same sex attraction and feels unaccepted in their community can receive psychotherapy for those issues. Many therapists have dealt with these issues along with people who choose to remain celibate or who marry simply to maintain a community façade but have sexual relations with homosexual partners.
There is however a significantly broader issue that we must be willing to address. Homosexuals are people deserving of respect, no less than any other person. What goes on behind closed doors is none of our business. We will likely be seeing gay couples joining our communities in a more open manner. We should develop a protocol for acceptance. We really have no option. They are not ill, they do not need to be healed, nor do they need repair or sexual conversion. They are people simply trying to cope with the vagaries of a life defined by their humanity – nothing more.
Full article: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/sexuality-cannot-be-healed/
What Newly-Unsealed Testimony Could Mean For Bill Cosby And His Accusers, Here & Now
/in Uncategorized /by SOL ReformMore allegations against Bill Cosby have emerged, this time from the comedian himself. In sworn court testimony from a 2005 sexual abuse lawsuit that was unsealed yesterday, Cosby admitted to having obtained prescription sedatives with the intention of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with. The documents were unsealed Monday, after the Associated Press went to court to compel their release.
In the deposition, lawyer Dolores M. Troiani asked Cosby, “When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?”
“Yes,” Cosby answered.
Here & Now’ Jeremy Hobson talks to Marci Hamilton, professor at Cardozo Law School and an expert in statute of limitations involving sexual assault, about what the the legal ramifications could be for Cosby, and the more than two dozen women who have accused him of sexual assault.
What Newly-Unsealed Testimony Could Mean For Bill Cosby And His Accusers _ Here & Now
Bill Chappell, LAPD Says It’s Investigating Bill Cosby Over Sexual Assault Allegations, NPR
/in Uncategorized /by SOL ReformThe Los Angeles Police Department is conducting at least one current criminal investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Bill Cosby, the department tells NPR’s Mandalit del Barco.
“LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has said his department would investigate any sexual assault accusations against Bill Cosby — even past the statute of limitations,” Mandalit reports. “The department’s public information officer, Det. Meghan Aguilar, told NPR that the police have at least one open criminal investigation that may have multiple accusations. The LAPD would not offer any more details because the case is ongoing.”
Bill Cosby participates in the Black Belt Community Foundation’s March for Education on May 15 in Selma, Ala.
THE TWO-WAY
The Cosby Revelation: How A Decade-Old Deposition Came To Light
The news comes on the heels of new revelation that Cosby, 77, had said during a deposition in 2005 “that he obtained the sedative Quaalude with the intent of giving the drug to women with whom he wanted to have sex,” as NPR’s Krishnadev Calamur reported Monday.
Accusations of sexual misconduct against Cosby have increased dramatically in the past year; dozens of women have now come forward to say he assaulted them. In some instances, the allegations date back decades.
In the most serious cases, Cosby, 77, is accused of drugging and raping the women. The entertainer has settled previous allegations against him. He has never faced criminal charges over the claims.
Cosby’s admissions in the now-public deposition give new validation to those claims, Cardozo Law School professor Marci Hamilton tells NPR’s Here & Now.
Hamilton adds, “on the other hand, for the vast majority of these women, they have no legal option — because the statute of limitations has already expired.”
But Hamilton also said, “What we’re all waiting for, is for the younger victims to come forward who would be in-statute in a particular state. It’s unlikely that someone who operates the way that Cosby apparently did stopped at any particular age. So I assume those victims are out there and we’ll see that happen.”
Cosby’s statement came to light after the Associated Press sought the release of court documents related to a lawsuit filed against him by a former Temple University employee.
A judge unsealed the deposition for several reasons — including because he says Cosby is a public figure who has spoken out about moral issues including family life and crime.
LAPD Says It’s Investigating Bill Cosby Over Sexual Assault Allegations _ The Two-Way _ NPR
Cosby said he obtained sedatives to give women, Associated Press
/in Uncategorized /by SOL ReformBill Cosby admitted in 2005 that he acquired Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women with whom he wanted to have sex 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 that case that they knowingly took Quaaludes from him, according to the unsealed documents.
The AP went to court to compel the release of the documents from the deposition in a sexual abuse lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand, a former employee of Temple University in Philadelphia — the first of a cascade of sexual abuse lawsuits against him. Cosby’s lawyers objected on the grounds that it would embarrass their client.
Bill Cosby resigns from Temple University board
‘I have always wanted to do what would be in the best interests of the university,’ says star, facing sex assault claims
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.
More than two dozen women have accused Cosby, 77, of sexual misconduct, including allegations by many of them that he drugged and raped them, in incidents dating back more than four decades. He has never been criminally charged, and statutes of limitations apply to most of the accusations.
Lawyer Gloria Allred says she hopes to use Cosby’s newly unsealed testimony from 2005 in other court cases against the comedian.
She said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday evening that “this confirms the allegations of numerous victims who have alleged that he had used drugs to sexually assault them.”
She says “this admission is one that Mr. Cosby has attempted to hide from the public for many years and we are very gratified that it is now being made public.”
The lawyer for model Janice Dickinson says “now we know why” Bill Cosby has failed to appear for a deposition in her defamation lawsuit against him.
Dickinson sued him in May, saying denials made by the comedian’s representatives after she accused him last year of raping her in 1982 were defamatory.
Given his testimony in 2005, lawyer Lisa Bloom said in a statement Monday evening, “how dare he publicly vilify Ms. Dickinson and accuse her of lying when she tells a very similar story?”
Cosby, giving testimony in the lawsuit, which accused him of sexual assaulting Constand at his home in Pennsylvania in 2005, said he got seven Quaalude prescriptions in the 1970s. Constand’s lawyer Dolores M. Troiani asked if he had kept the sedatives through the 1990s — after they were banned — but was frustrated by objections from Cosby’s lawyer.
“When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?” Troiani asked on Sept. 29, 2005.
“Yes,” Cosby answered.
“Did you ever give any of these young women the Quaaludes without their knowledge?” Troiani asked.
Cosby’s lawyer again objected, leading Troiani to petition the federal judge to force Cosby to cooperate.
Cosby later said he gave Constand three half-pills of Benadryl, although Troiani in the documents voices doubt that was the drug involved. The two women who testified on Constand’s behalf said they knowingly took Quaaludes.
Three of the women accusing Cosby of sexually assaulting them have a defamation lawsuit pending against him in Massachusetts. They allege that he defamed them when his agents said their accusations were untrue. He is trying to have their case thrown out before discovery.
Lawyer Joe Cammarata represents one of the Massachusetts accusers. He says the use of drugs during sex has been a “recurring theme of the women’s allegations.” He says the documents unsealed appear to support their claims.
Cosby fought the AP’s efforts to unseal the testimony, with his lawyer George M. Gowen III arguing the deposition could reveal details of Cosby’s marriage, sex life and prescription drug use.
“It would be terribly embarrassing for this material to come out,” Gowen argued in June. He said the public should not have access to what Cosby was forced to say as he answered questions under oath from the accuser’s lawyer nearly a decade ago.
“Frankly … it would embarrass him. It would also prejudice him in eyes of the jury pool in Massachusetts,” Gowen said.
U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno asked last month why Cosby was fighting the release of his testimony, given that the accusations in Constand’s lawsuit were already in the public eye.
“Why would he be embarrassed by his own version of the facts?” Robreno said.
Cosby’s lawyers have not returned messages seeking comment.
Cosby resigned in December from the board of trustees at Temple, where he was the popular face of the Philadelphia school in advertisements, fundraising campaigns and commencement speeches.
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