Sure they ‘can’. Whether it’s likely or not in this case is another thing.
When Democrats or their beliefs are involved, yes, they can.
Cosby may be the lecherous type.
However, what bothers me is that in each of these complaints, the victims were aspiring actresses who would do anything to get a part. That one of them was underage means that she never should have been allowed to fly overseas repeatedly to stay in his hotel room at night. Apparently her parents condoned these activities.
Hollywood condones all kinds of deviant activities to reward their ‘stars’.
If what they claim Cosby did is true (drugging, raping) then it is also true that the girl was being pimped out by her parents and/or her agency.
The odds that all these women are lying are very very low. I would add it will be pretty easy to verify if somehow these women have all conspired together. That part of the investigation wouldn't take very long to rule out.
As far as all the women never saying anything, well we know that's not true. Some have made the claims for years. What has happened is like so many other serial sex offender cases is that this one has finally got traction and other vitims that would would have remained silent are now feeling comfortable enough to speak out.
We have seen this play out in countless cases like this. Think about all the cases where priests got away with molesting dozens of people until someone finally outs them, then out come all the victims. Think about Sandusky and many other cases like his.
The Cosby scandal fits the pattern perfectly. Also of note is that even though much time has past since most of these alleged crimes in most of these cases where someone is a serial offender they end up getting nailed one way or another. In my opinion Cosby is in very serious trouble. Not all states have statutes of limitations on Rape and some can be denied if DNA is present. It's very likely somewhere a prosecutor is going to step up and bring charges.
“It’s not the veracity of the claims, but the seriousness of the charges.”
It’s not justice, or even logical, but it is how they are running our “justice” system these days. At least, it sure as hell seems like it...
when the 15 she’s remain silent for 20-40 years, they kind of weaken their cases Had they all gone to the authorities when they said the incidents happened, Cosby would have long since been gone.
Assume a female is raped.
Can it not be said that if she values herself so little that she can’t be bothered to file a criminal report - why should anyone else be concerned?
“..15 women can’t all be lying.”
Let’s check Bubba Clinton on that point.
People should remember the Salem Witchcraft trials.
Bill Cosby Under Fire
By Alex Tresniowski
The Comedian Settles a Case Accusing Him of Sexual Abuse—but Other Women Make Similar Claims
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20059561,00.html
But news reports about Constand's subsequent civil suit are what coaxed Barbara Bowman, 39, out of hiding. The Denver-area native—who first told her story to Philadelphia magazine in November—was an 18-year-old model and aspiring actress in 1985, when her agent Jo Farrell arranged for her to meet Cosby. "It was overwhelmingly exciting," remembers Bowman, whose first meeting with Cosby took place at a comedy club in Denver. "He questioned me quite extensively about my personal history, my relationship with my father. My father abandoned me when I was 14." She says now, "In hindsight I look back and I realize what he was doing. He was getting information of where my vulnerabilities lay." In that first meeting, she claims Cosby gave her an acting exercise that struck her as disturbing: "He wanted me to imagine fully that I was inebriated, that I was out of control, drunk or drugged.... He wanted me to just slump in my chair, and he wanted my limbs to be limp, and he would whisper in my ear what he wanted." After Farrell arranged for her to move to New York City, Cosby continued to mentor her and even introduced her to costars Phylicia Rashad and Lisa Bonet. "I trusted him totally," says Bowman's mother, Pat Hubbard, 68. "Who wouldn't trust and love Dr. Huxtable?"
It was in a hotel in Reno, claims Bowman, that Cosby assaulted her one night in 1986. "He took my hand and his hand over it, and he masturbated with his hand over my hand," says Bowman, who, although terrified, kept quiet about the incident and continued as Cosby's protégé because, she says, "Who's gonna believe this? He was a powerful man. He was like the president." Before long she was alone with Cosby again in his Manhattan townhouse; she was given a glass of red wine, and "the next thing I know, I'm sick and I'm nauseous and I'm delusional and I'm limp and ... I can't think straight.... And I just came to, and I'm wearing a [men's] T-shirt that wasn't mine, and he was in a white robe."
A month or two later, she was in Atlantic City and says she was given another glass of red wine and felt "completely doped up again." Confused, Bowman somehow made it back to her room, but the next day Cosby summoned her to his suite. After she arrived, Bowman says, Cosby "threw me on the bed and braced his arm under my neck so I couldn't move my head, and he started trying to take his clothes off. I...................
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