Defense challenges Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand: 'You changed your story'
By Manuel Roig-Franzia June 7 at 12:38 PM
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Andrea Constand had an explosive accusation: One of the world’s most famous men — the beloved comedian Bill Cosby — had drugged and sexually assaulted her.
And so she called the police in 2005, Constand testified Wednesday during a second day of painstaking cross-examination in Cosby’s sexual assault trial. The jumbled set of details Constand related to police in interviews are now coming back to haunt her as she tries to persuade a jury that she is a sex-crime victim rather than a woman who willingly had romantic relations with Cosby, whom she had thought of as a mentor.
Under questioning by Cosby’s attorney, Angela Agrusa, Constand had to admit that the date of the alleged sexual assault included in her first police report was off by several weeks.
The report, which is emerging as a key element of the defense case, states that Constand told officers Cosby sexually assaulted her at his Philadelphia-area home after a March 16, 2004, restaurant dinner with a group of high school students. The two had become friends through her work at Temple University, where she was an administrator for the women’s basketball team and he sat on the board of trustees.
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