Bill Cosby's attraction to Andrea Constand began the instant
he spied her across a Temple University
athletic facility in concerning 2002. The toying — some would say grooming —
began before long.
When Constand, a Temple
women's basketball staff member, mentioned that her back was bothering her, the
66-year-old comedian offered his "layman's" fix within the women's
room.
"It's one wherever she gets on my back together with
her back and her arms come back below mine and that i grab her and that i say,
'Now you relax,'" Cosby same in an exceedingly 2005 deposition. "I go
up and that i come back down and that i provide that jolt and it's purported to
line the vertebrae."
The friendly relationship that followed between Temple's
most notable booster and also the then-31-year-old worker colours the
sex-assault prosecution that starts in earnest weekday, once Cosby's lawyers
can raise a decide to throw out charges stemming from a 2004 encounter at his
residential district City of Brotherly Love home.
In Cosby's mind, Constand had reacted "very, terribly
favorably" to him the day they met at Temple's
arena.
A university trustee, he began attractive her to dinner at
his home, initially with others however later alone. Cosby was each a sounding
board and somebody World Health Organization may open doors for a girl
considering a career modification. In Gregorian calendar month 2003, he
summoned Constand to the Foxwoods casino in Connecticut,
wherever he was acting, and organized for her to own dinner with a casino
government in his suite. however he voiced frustration once she didn't follow
through on his job leads.
"Here's a mentor, Bill Cosby, World Health Organization
is within the business — Bill Cosby, World Health Organization happens to grasp
one thing concerning what to try to to — and Andrea isn't finding out on
that," Cosby same within the deposition, a part of the sex-assault legal
proceeding Constand filed in 2005.
In the deposition, Cosby paints himself as Constand's
friend, mentor and occasional partner in sex "play" that stopped in
need of intercourse, lest she fall crazy with him.
Constand's lawyers have since seen that she is gay and was
chemical analysis a girl at the time.
Basketball, a typical bond between them, had taken Constand
from a standout highschool career in Toronto
to a 1996 NIT championship with the University
of Arizona to semi-pro ball in Europe
and at last employment with Temple
women's basketball program.
By her third season, though, Constand was restless,
speculative if this was the tip of the road for her life in basketball. She
spoke oftentimes concerning it to Cosby, throughout phone calls, at social
events and through the more or less half-dozen visits she created to his Cheltenham
home.
Cosby, within the deposition, delineated a minimum of 2 separate nights once they
engaged in sex play there — the primary time, when she had four drinks, and
also the second time, when he gave her unidentified pills. (Cosby same he ne'er
drank or did outlaw medicine, though he acknowledged obtaining quaaludes within
the Seventies to use on ladies he hoped to seduce.)
The criminal case involves the second night, in Gregorian
calendar month 2004.
Cosby said: "Andrea came to the house. ... we tend to
talked concerning Temple University.
we tend to talked concerning her position. and so I went upstairs and that i
got 3 pills ... as a result of she was talking concerning stress. ... we tend
to Sabbatum for fifteen or twenty minutes talking. I then same, 'Let's move
into the front room.' ... I asked her to own a sit down on the seat. we tend to
were still talking. then again we tend to began to neck and that we began to
the touch and that we began to feel and kiss and kiss back."
Cosby delineated the
"digital penetration" that followed as one thing of a favor, to
assist her unwind.
"I hoped (it) had been a form of a contribution to
happiness, friendship, an instant that we tend to shared," Cosby same.
Constand later same she was too intoxicated to recollect it clearly.
Cosby, in an exceedingly taped telephone with Constand and
her overwrought mother a year later, confirmed that he gave her pills and
delineated the coitus.
"Tell your mother you were awake. Tell your mother
concerning the sexual climax. Tell your mother however we tend to talked,"
Cosby begged on the telephone.
Over subsequent few days, his agents and handlers created a
flurry of calls to their family home to supply an academic fund or recommend
they meet him at his next gig in Miami.
The Constands instead gave the tape to police in North American country, World
Health Organization referred the case to Pennsylvania
investigators.
Then-Montgomery County public prosecutor Bruce Castor
declined to press charges in what he viewed as a "he same, she said"
case.
When a federal decide free parts of Cosby's civil deposition
last year, prosecutors re-opened the case. public prosecutor Kevin Sir Richrd
Steele weighed Cosby's testimony, and also the dozens of comparable accusations
that have followed, and filed charges last month before the 12-year statute of
limitations expired .
Defense lawyers can argue weekday that Cosby had a deal that
he would ne'er be charged. In associate degree uncommon twist, Castor are going
to be their key witness.
The AP usually doesn't determine people that say they need
been sexually mistreated unless they conform to have their names printed, as
Constand has done.
