PEOPLE-BILL COSBY/ACCUSERS Cosby accusers call for full deposition release

Record ID: 147387

  • Title: PEOPLE-BILL COSBY/ACCUSERS Cosby accusers call for full deposition release
  • Date: 14th July 2015
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JULY 13, 2015) (REUTERS) ATTORNEY GLORIA ALLRED AND CLIENTS BETH FERRIER AND REBECCA LYNN NEAL ENTERING CONFERENCE ROOM (SOUNDBITE) (English) ATTORNEY GLORIA ALLRED, SAYING: "Upon reviewing the excerpts that were released, we discovered that Mr. Cosby had testified about two of my clients, Beth Ferrier, Jane Doe #5 and Rebecca Lynn N
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  • Story Text: Two women at the center of sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby, Lynn Neal and Beth Ferrier, appeared with their attorney Gloria Allred at a news conference on Monday (July 13). They have filed a memorandum requesting that an entire deposition the comedian gave in 2005 be released.
    "Upon reviewing the excerpts that were released, we discovered that Mr. Cosby had testified about two of my clients, Beth Ferrier, Jane Doe #5 and Rebecca Lynn Neal, Jane Doe #11. We are concerned that his partial testimony, if believed, can cause reputational damage to both of my clients," said Allred.
    Both Neal and Ferrier accuse Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them.
    "My roommates at the time of the assault were the ones that found me in my car after Cosby secretly drugged me. I was unconscious and my roommates were unable to wake me. They carried me into our house. I didn't wake up until the next evening," said Neal, who claims Cosby assaulted her in 1983 while she worked as a masseuse at a Las Vegas, Nevada health club.
    "It is important for the world to know the truth about how Bill Cosby hunted me like a predator. My refusal of his constant advances fueled his desire and eventual drugging rape ritual. In the recently released excerpts from his deposition Bill Cosby admits that he was with me in Denver and that he "probably" had sex with me. I am here as a Jane Doe, one of the courageous thirteen Jane Does, who came forward in support of Andrea Constand and her 2005 lawsuit," said Ferrier, who alleges she was assaulted in 1986 in Denver, Colorado after she ended an extramarital affair with him.
    A Pennsylvania judge recently unsealed testimony in a 2005 civil lawsuit against Cosby, in which the actor said he had obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving the sedatives to young women in order to have sex with them.
    In the past year, some 40 other women have come forward accusing the star of TV comedy series "The Cosby Show" of drugging and sexually assaulting them in incidents dating back decades.
    Cosby has never been criminally charged, and most of the allegations exceed the statute of limitations. His attorneys have consistently denied the accusations.
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