{"id":80387,"date":"2015-01-08T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=80387"},"modified":"2015-01-08T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T07:56:40","slug":"cosby-accusers-come-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=80387","title":{"rendered":"More Cosby accusers come forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Three more women have come forward to accuse comedian Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them years ago.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference in Los Angeles hosted by lawyer Gloria Allred, the women described encounters with The Cosby Show star between 1981 and 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old is facing a number of allegations dating back to the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate response from his lawyer in relation to the latest accusations, but Cosby has previously denied other alleged assaults.<\/p>\n<p>The women at Wednesday&#8217;s news conference described incidents of sexual assault in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, Linda Kirkpatrick, said she had wanted to come forward earlier but feared she would not be believed.<\/p>\n<p>They happened too long ago to result in criminal charges or lawsuits and Allred urged Cosby to waive the statute of limitations.<\/p>\n<p>This restricts the length of time in which legal action can be taken after an alleged crime has been committed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/80125000\/jpg\/_80125827_80125826.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Cosby\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/>Cosby has rubbished some of the allegations<\/div>\n<p>The series of accusations, which he has described as &#8220;fantastical&#8221; and &#8220;uncorroborated&#8221;, have led to some of his stand-up shows being called off and the cancellation of some TV projects.<\/p>\n<p>But he began a three-night tour in Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, taking to the stage for the first time since November. Protesters outside the venue carried signs such as &#8220;Shame on you&#8221; and some ticket-holders boycotted the performance.<\/p>\n<p>He is best known as Dr Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show from 1984 to 1992, which was a huge hit in the US and around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three more women have come forward to accuse comedian Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them years ago. At a news conference in Los Angeles hosted by lawyer Gloria Allred, the women described encounters with The Cosby Show star between 1981 and 1996. The 77-year-old is facing a number of allegations dating back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":80388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-80387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}