Cosby Trial: Cop, Alleged Victim's Mom Testify

(6 Jun 2017) Jurors at Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial are hearing from the Canadian police officer who initiated the original investigation into allegations the entertainer drugged and violated a woman in 2004. Det. Dave Mason testified Tuesday that accuser Andrea Constand told him she felt woozy soon after Cosby gave her pills and that she was semi-conscious as he touched her breast and genitals. Constand went to police in her native Ontario about a year after she says Cosby assaulted her at his suburban Philadelphia home. The case was eventually forwarded to investigators there, but Cosby wasn't charged until a new prosecutor reopened the case in 2015. Mason testified that Constand said she'd waited to come forward because she was embarrassed and was daunted by Cosby's strong standing at his alma mater Temple University, where she worked for the basketball program. He says she told him and two other investigators that she felt Cosby place "something foreign" in her genitals but wasn't specific. Mason, trained as a sexual assault response officer, said he got the impression Constand couldn't remember some details because of the effects of the pills. Also, The mother of a Bill Cosby accuser is telling jurors about the day her daughter told her Cosby had drugged her at a hotel bungalow. Pattrice Sewell says her daughter called her distraught in 1996, fearing Cosby was trying to get her fired from her job working for Cosby's agent. She says her daughter, Kelly Johnson, later disclosed that she had woken up next to Cosby in bed with her clothes askew. A worker's compensation lawyer says he was taken aback by a woman's 1996 deposition testimony that she'd been drugged and violated by Bill Cosby at a Los Angeles hotel bungalow. Joseph Miller testified that Kelly Johnson made the disclosure while pursuing a claim that she'd developed debilitating stress from her secretarial job at Cosby's talent agency. Johnson is the only other accuser allowed to testify at Cosby's trial, which stems from allegations he drugged and assaulted a different woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...