The tours around Cosby scandal – Göteborgs-Posten

In ten years, Bill Cosby accused of sexual abuse of over 40 women.

The night’s news that the news agency AP found documents showing that Cosby admitted that he had intentionally drugging young women is the continuation of a decade-long history. The documents show that the American comedian in 2005 admitted that he obtained the drug Methaqualone with a view to drugging young women he wanted to have sex with.

It was in connection with the first accusation in 2004 when university employees Andrea Constand sued Bill Cosby for having drugged and raped her, like Bill Cosby to have admitted that he at the same time given a sedative to a woman and to “other persons”. Cosby lawyers initially refused to disclose the documents with the reason that it would be “embarrassing” for him.

Andrea Constand was the first to openly go out and tell about the abuse that the comedian should have subjected her to, but it Before long, more similar stories began to appear. In early 2005, told Tamara Green, an attorney residing in California, in the TV program the Today show about how Bill Cosby in the 70s must have drugged and abused her. In the negotiations had Andrea Constands lawyer Moreover testimony from thirteen other women who accused Cosby of the same thing, but Bill Cosby denied all the charges and the case was closed in 2006 with the settlement.

Then there was silence for a while, until last year. When the flare charges up again when the comedian Hannibal Buress in a show in October calling Bill Cosby for the rapist and hypocrites whereupon Andrea Constand write an open letter in the Washington Post entitled “Bill Cosby raped me. Why did it take thirty years before people believed my story ? “.

After it enters more women forward and tell of similar abuses, including actress Barbara Bowman, who in October said that she was over 25 years kept silent about the sexual abuse that comedian subjected her to.

In November, says supermodel Janice Dickinsson in an interview with Entertainment Tonight that Bill Cosby assaulted even on her. A month later comes the supermodel Beverly Johnson back and says that Cosby drugged her and tried to make sexual advances, but she managed to get out of the situation.

The accusations continued, and total is 40 women out and saying that they have been drugged and sexually abused by the now 77-year-old Bill Cosby.

In the days before Christmas agrees Bill Cosby’s wife, Camille Cosby, behind her husband and says she does not believe in the accusations. Bill Cosby himself keeps silent, until May this year when he gives his first interview in months at ABC News. There, he avoids answering some questions about the allegations.

During the spring forced Cosby to set several of his stand up shows, as well as a planned television series that would have aired on NBC.

For most of the allegations have been the limitation period has expired, and several of them stretches several decades back in time. Bill Cosby has not been charged with any of the cases.