Janice Baker-Kinney, the 3rd accuser told jurors that she was raped by Cosby when she was 24-years-old, after he pressed her to take two pills that she believed were "Quaaludes" – a type of sedative that Cosby had admitted in the past obtaining with a view to having sex. Baker-Kinney, a bar tender in ...
(Newser) – The first accuser to testify at Bill Cosby's retrial, Heidi Thomas, described the comedian Wednesday as "a serial rapist" as she parried with his lawyers, while second accuser Chelan Lasha tearfully confronted the comedian over a 32-year-old assault allegation: "You remember, don't you, Mr.
Mesereau suggested that without the public statements of other Cosby accusers, Baker-Kinney “still wouldn't think of it as rape.” Baker-Kinney rejected that assertion, instead citing ”things that are happening today in the news that I'm sure many of us have heard about, with people feeling empowered ...
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A third Bill Cosby accuser took the stand Wednesday, recounting how she accepted what she believes were Quaaludes from the comedian in 1982 at a pizza party — and then woke up naked in bed with him. “I realized we were both in bed together, and we both had no clothes on ...
EARLIER: Bill Cosby's defense team asked for a mistrial today at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, PA after accuser Chelan Lasha taunted Cosby from the witness stand. “You remember, don't you, Mr. Cosby?” said Lasha, speaking over Judge Steven O'Neill as he dismissed jurors for ...
NEW YORK — One of the earliest Harvey Weinstein accusers says that despite the #MeToo reckoning, it's “open season” on survivors who dare speak out about sexual misconduct. Italian actress and filmmaker Asia Argento writes in an essay that she has been called a whore, liar, traitor, opportunist ...
A third accuser took the stand Wednesday in comedian Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial, at one point directly addressing Cosby from the witness stand. "You remember, don't you, Mr. Cosby?" said Chelan Lasha, who alleges that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 when she was a ...
Accuser tells Cosby retrial wants 'serial rapist convicted' ... NORRISTOWN, United States (AFP) — Bill Cosby's sexual misconduct retrial heard dramatic testimony Wednesday from two accusers who allege the disgraced megastar assaulted them in the 1980s, and the judge slapped down a defense ...
NEW YORK — One of the earliest Harvey Weinstein accusers says that despite the #MeToo reckoning, it's "open season" on survivors who dare speak out about sexual misconduct. Italian actress and filmmaker Asia Argento writes in an essay that she has been called a whore, liar, traitor, opportunist ...
On the third day of Bill Cosby's retrial for accusations of rape and sexual assault, accuser Chelan Lasha took the stand for an emotional testimony Wednesday. Lasha began crying while she was being sworn in, according to reports from The Daily Beast and The Washington Post. Through heavy sobs ...
