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Bill Cosby Admits to Sexual Encounters with Teens in Deposition Excerpt

Bill Cosby's legal troubles continue as he faces a preliminary hearing on Tuesday (May 24) to determine if his criminal sex-assault case in suburban Philadelphia goes to trial.Article Image: Bill Cosby Admits to Sexual Encounters with Teens in Deposition Excerpt
Prosecutors previously declined to charge Cosby over Andrea Constand's complaint in 2005, but arrested him in December after his explosive deposition in the woman's lawsuit became public. In the testimony given in that deposition, Cosby is grilled about giving drugs and alcohol to women before sex, as well as making secret payments to ex-lovers. The two knew each other through Temple University. There, Cosby was a trustee and Constand managed the women's basketball team. 
The following exchanges between Cosby and Constand’s lawyer Dolores Troiani took place in 2005 and 2006. They are excerpted for brevity and to delete legal squabbling and repetition.
ON CONSTAND:
Q: When did you first develop a romantic interest in Andrea?
A: Probably the first time I saw her (at Temple's arena).
On the night in question:
Q: Can you tell me ... what you recall of the night in which you gave the pills to Andrea?
A: Andrea came to the house. I called her. ... We talked about Temple University. We talked about her position. And then I went upstairs and I got three pills. I brought them down. They are the equivalent of one and a half. The reason why I gave them and offered them to Andrea, which she took after examining them, was because she was talking about stress.
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Cosby describes a several-minute sexual encounter that followed.
Q: So, you're not telling us that you verbally asked her for permission?
A: I didn't say it verbally, I said. The action is my hand on her midriff, which is skin. I'm not lifting any clothing up. This is, I don't remember fully what it is, but it's there and I can feel. I got her skin and it's just above the hand and it's just above where you can go under the pants.
Q: Then what happens?
A: I don't hear her say anything. And I don't feel her say anything. And so I continue and I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection. I am not stopped.
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Troiani asks Cosby about a phone call a year later between Cosby and Constand's mother, Gianni Constand, who told him something was wrong with her daughter, who was also on the line.
Q: What was the thing that you did not want to talk about?
A: I didn't want to talk about, "What did you give her?"
Q: Why?
A: Because we're over the telephone and I'm not sending anything (the pill bottle) over the mail and I'm not giving away anything.
Q: Why didn't you simply tell her ... that you had given her daughter an over-the-counter drug called Benadryl?
A: I'm not going to argue with somebody's mother who is accusing me of something. And then when I apologize she says to me, "That's all I wanted to know, Bill." ... And I'm apologizing because I'm thinking this is a dirty old man with a young girl. I apologized. I said to the mother it was digital penetration.
Q: When she sat here and cried (Constand, during her deposition), how did you feel?
A: I think Andrea is a liar and I know she's a liar because I was there.
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Cosby then testified that he received seven prescriptions for Quaaludes (a now banned substance) for a sore back.  When asked why he never took them himself, he says they made him sleepy and he used them to give to other people.  He also says they were the drugs kids used to party at the time.
Q: When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?
A: Yes.
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Cosby acknowledges having a sexual relationship with accuser Therese (Picking) Serignese starting around 1976, when she was 19. Serignese, who has gone public with her accusations, has said the first time she met Cosby at a Las Vegas hotel in 1976, he gave her Quaaludes and a glass of water before they had sex.
Q: She said that she believes she was not in the position to consent to intercourse after you gave her the drug. Do you believe that is correct?
A: I don't know. ... How many years ago are we talking about? 197(6)? ... I meet Ms. Picking in Las Vegas. She meets me backstage. I give her Quaaludes. We then have sex.
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Cosby says that while he was filming one of his sitcoms, an agency would send "five or six" models to his studio each week. He says he would give the struggling, young actresses "a very, very good meal." He describes a sexual encounter he had with one of them in 2000.
Q: That you told her to sit next to you on the couch and that you put your arm around her and began massaging her shoulder and arms suggestively. Did that occur? ... This occurred sometime after you met her parents.
A: I need clarification on time.
Q: She's 17 and I believe throughout the time she knows you she becomes 18 or 19.
Q: On a later occasion you had her masturbate you with lotion. Did that ever happen?
A: Yes.
Q: (She) used the lotion to rub your penis and make you ejaculate?
A: Bingo.
Cosby acknowledged that he offered Constand and others educational trusts through his foundation or otherwise.  In paying Therese Serignese, Cosby acknowledges the money would flow through his representatives at the William Morris agency.
Source: bigstory.ap.org