The following is what is reported in the media: Mother, dancer, accuser
She began active duty in the summer of 1997 and was sent to school in Dam Neck, Va., near Virginia Beach, to train for her job operating radios and navigation equipment.That fall, the couple got married in Virginia Beach. The union would allow the woman's husband to travel wherever the woman was stationed, he said.The former husband said he was illiterate when he married the then-19-year-old woman. She taught him to read, he said, and was kind and patient during the process. After months of tutoring and many evenings spent paging through beginning-level books, he said, he was finally able to fill out his own job applications."She never downed me for that," he said. "She loved me for who I was." He said he saw her after the accusations of rape were reported and she appeared distressed.As newlyweds, the couple moved to Concord, Calif., where the woman was assigned to the USS Mount Hood, an ammunition ship.
She was often away at sea for days or weeks, and tensions flared in the marriage, her former husband said."She was young," he said.Along the way, the woman became interested in another sailor, a man who would later father her children, the former husband said. The two separated as the new relationship began, he said. Six months later, she was discharged from the service.A U.S. Navy spokesman would not release the reason for the discharge, though records indicate it came less than nine months before she had her first child, a boy, named after his father.Court records show the divorce became final after she gave birth. She continued her relationship with the sailor, and the two had a second child. Soon after, the couple parted ways. In 2003, the children's father was ordered by a Durham court to have a portion of his
And the father of the alleged victim in this case speaks out in his first national television interview. He does not want his face to be shown in order to protect the identity of his daughter. He told me what she says happened the night she was allegedly raped. And some big news. For the first time, we’re learning that the woman, his daughter, says she was able to immediately identify three boys in photos supplied by authorities.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She’s a well-spoken girl. And she’d take care of her kids. She’d go to school. She’s just a good child. I mean, she’s my baby girl.
COSBY: She’s a mother?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, she’s a mother, too.
COSBY: How old are the children?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They’re 5 and 7.
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