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Drug & Sex: Cosby has case to answer - Court

The Gong:
A United State (US) judge has decided there is enough evidence to send actor and comedian Bill Cosby to trial on a sexual assault charge, reports The Gong.

According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Mr Cosby was accused of drugging and molesting a former Temple University employee in his home outside of Philadelphia in 2004.

The Gong recollects that the case was opened last year after dozens of women came forward with similar accusations. While Mr. Cosby maintained that all of the encounters were consensual.

However, the Police in its charge sheet stated that the accuser, Andrea Constand, who now lives in Toronto, said she was drugged.

“I told him, ‘I can’t talk, Mr Cosby’. I started to panic,” Ms Constand told police in 2005 following the incident, describing how Mr Cosby allegedly sexually violated her after giving her three blue pills.

The pills, Constand said, made her dizzy and mad her legs “like jelly.”

The judge has ruled that she will not have to testify.

The Gong further reports that over 40 women have accused Mr Cosby of sexual assault, but in nearly all of the cases, too much time has elapsed for charges to be pursued.

The Constand case is the only one that falls within the statute of limitations for charges.

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