Prosecutors ask judge to allow Cosby’s accusers to testify
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby used his fame to gain the trust of women before knocking them out with pills and drinks so he could sexually assault them, prosecutors argued Tuesday as they sought to persuade a judge to allow 13 of his accusers to testify in his upcoming sexual assault trial.
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele told a judge he wants the accusers’ testimony to show Cosby had a lengthy history of drugging and molesting young women.
“The defendant has engaged, over the course of decades, in a signature pattern of non-consensual sexual assaults on young women who were in an unconscious state due to an intoxicant that the defendant administered to them,” Steele argued.
Cosby, who is 79 and has been married for decades, is charged with sexually assaulting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.