PENNSYLVANIA
New York times
By GRAHAM BOWLEY and JON HURDLE
APRIL 13, 2018
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby was supposed to be her mentor, Andrea Constand told a jury here Friday. But instead he became her attacker, she said, so unrelenting in his sexual pursuit — even after she had rejected his advances — that he drugged and molested her during a visit to his home in January 2004.
“I was kind of jolted awake and felt Mr. Cosby on the couch beside me, behind me, and my vagina was being penetrated quite forcefully, and I felt my breast being touched,” Ms. Constand said on the fifth day of Mr. Cosby’s sexual assault retrial. “I was limp, and I could not fight him off.”
Ms. Constand was more composed and less emotional in giving her account this time than she had been last summer, when she first testified about what she said had happened at Mr. Cosby’s house near Philadelphia.
That case ended in a mistrial when the jury became deadlocked. This time, Mr. Cosby’s defense team has taken a more aggressive stance toward Ms. Constand, describing her as a “con artist” who engaged in a consensual encounter and then concocted a story of assault so as to score a big payday.
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